shearease
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Hi, wonder if any body can give me advice, I bought a 16.2, 11 year old European sports horse for my novice daughters 11 months ago, she was incredibly thin and nervy and she would shoot forward
into a very short strided trot with even the lightest of leg, but as she had been a quiet, gentle family riding horse living in a field till she was sold as a hunter 6 months prior I thought with love, food and patience she would
soon settle back into her old ways. My husband and I also felt incredibly sorry for her as she was so nervous under saddle. Her behaviour was extremely strange, lame and stiff one day, resistant another day, very sleepy at times,
at other times totally explosive. Took us a while to discover she has PSSM amongst other things. I am struggling to work out how to feed her. Magnesium is a disaster, she is like an explosive dope! Rich grazing, good quality hay all end up with her going stiff and miserable. So at the moment she is on poor quality hay, about 600g of Alfa A oil and alfala pellets the bag says 1.5 kg but it takes her ages to eat the amount I feed her now, 500g feed balancer,2 scoops vitamin E half a table spoon of salt and a couple of capfuls of oil, I have just added some timothy halage but not sure yet how she will react to that. Can anybody give advice as to how to find good quality hay or haylage which is safe as its really hard to keep any muscle or condition on her and she seems to either have a potbelly or tucks up like a racehorse.

into a very short strided trot with even the lightest of leg, but as she had been a quiet, gentle family riding horse living in a field till she was sold as a hunter 6 months prior I thought with love, food and patience she would
soon settle back into her old ways. My husband and I also felt incredibly sorry for her as she was so nervous under saddle. Her behaviour was extremely strange, lame and stiff one day, resistant another day, very sleepy at times,
at other times totally explosive. Took us a while to discover she has PSSM amongst other things. I am struggling to work out how to feed her. Magnesium is a disaster, she is like an explosive dope! Rich grazing, good quality hay all end up with her going stiff and miserable. So at the moment she is on poor quality hay, about 600g of Alfa A oil and alfala pellets the bag says 1.5 kg but it takes her ages to eat the amount I feed her now, 500g feed balancer,2 scoops vitamin E half a table spoon of salt and a couple of capfuls of oil, I have just added some timothy halage but not sure yet how she will react to that. Can anybody give advice as to how to find good quality hay or haylage which is safe as its really hard to keep any muscle or condition on her and she seems to either have a potbelly or tucks up like a racehorse.
