horse accidentally eaten another horses feed

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Hi all, this evening my pony has gotten into another horses stable and eaten their entire feed. He is 14hh and the feed was for a 17.2 horse, feed was made from fibre nuggets, speedibeet and happy hoof chaff.

Vet recommended not to give him any hay in stable but after discussing risk of him trying to jump the door he said give a small amount soaked in small hole net. I have no had the vet out to see him as they didn’t think it necessary at this point.
He recommended hosing his feet however, he will not let me do this at all and is petrified of the hose, along with anything else you try to do to ‘mess’ with him, he will become spooked and agressive/strike out or try to mow you down. I’m now very worried i won’t be able to do this as i know it can be key to preventing laminitis.

he’s eaten around two scoops of fibre nuggets, a scoop and a half of speedibeet and a scoop and a half of chaff (happy hoof) - how worried do i need to be, I am stressed out of my mind right now.
 
I'd consider exercise, but definitely ask the vet first as I am not sure about this. My reasoning is that exercise lowers the blood sugar, which should prevent laminitis. At least half an hour with mostly trot and canter.

Again, ask your vet about this idea before doing it. I've never been in your situation.
 
To be honest it's one feed. Ours escaped and ate a few breakfasts outside other stables he was fine. Friend had 2 sh*tlands who broke into feedstore and ate a large amount of unsoaked sugar beet overnight. Both were fine. I don't think I'd give yours a hard feed but I probably wouldn't limit hay too much. That's just me though.
 
He'll be fine. It's all fairly low calorie, low sugar (bar the fiber nuggets) and it's a big feed (bearing n mind their stomach is rugby ball sized ish). I would not withhold hay completely, just offer less than usual to avoid waste. He won't eat it if he doesn't want it. I'm sure pretty much everyone has a story or two of this ilk, especially native pony owners 😂
 
I'd walk round steadily for an hour, while some hay soaks

Perhaps give him a little hay in 2 hours

Check him every 2 to 3 hours

Give more hay after 6 hours if he seems hungry

Walk around steadily In The morning, if he seems OK I would lunge him


Start counting the poos
 
See my post last weekend about my Shetlands polishing off a tub of molasses! it turned out not the be the whole 3L, but the vet I spoke to didn't give me any advice, apart from making me feel bad that it had happened over 12 hours before and I hadn't noticed (it was overnight).

For those ingredients I wouldn't worry, it's all high fibre so unlikely to cause laminitis, even it's more than he'd normally eat in one go.
 
Thank you all this has made me feel a bit better, I get myself so worried and the vets definitely don’t help I’m driving myself nuts 🤦‍♀️
I’ve been down to walk him again this evening for ten minutes, he has a small amount of soaked hay, I’m going to keep checking him on my camera all night (best thing i ever bought).
Of all the stables he could have got into i think that horse has the biggest feed out of anyone on the yard!! But at least it was all fibre based.
He is a cob and an absolute little piggy. The vets wanted him kept in tomorrow morning until the afternoon aswel but i know he likely won’t play ball to this either, thankfully we have a bare paddock i can put some soaked hay in for him tomorrow
 
SEL said:
I wonder if the vets just assume a big horse has competition mix or something?

My old boy ate a huge trug of copra soaking for 6 polo ponies. All of it - with the tide mark around his face where he'd dunked his nose in. I was mortified. He was fine.
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Dave says Copra is disgusting & should be on the muck heap.

OP what your pony ate is fibre & low cal as others have said, I think he'll be fine.
 
My old tb got out one night and ate a whole yard full of feed as it was one of those yards where breakfasts were left outside stables. There was a wide variety including all sorts of medications and supplements. He looked a bit post Christmas dinner in the morning and was left in without food and monitored but by the time I got there in the afternoon he was fine and complaining loudly about lack of hay.
 
My first pony a Shetland was an escapologist on one of his little adventures he went to friends house which had stable behind it he ate most of a bag of pony cubes .
The vet was called and I had lead him about for what to me seemed like hours and my mum gave him water every hour .
He was fine
You should too try not to worry and keep watch on the camera .
 
If the feed was made up and ready for the 17.1 horse but eaten by a 14hh cob l really wouldn’t worry. It’s fibre based, if it had been unsoaked maybe l would have been a bit wary, cobs are very greedy and most will happily eat as much as they can. A 17 hand horse is maybe more delicate! Does your vet actually know the pony, are they experienced equine vets! ! I do think leaving food out when there’s a possibility that other horses can get it isn’t the best idea but it seems some livery yards do this. It’s not good practice though. I hope you’re pony is ok personally l would keep to the normal routine unless there were previous risks or problems.
 
He has had colic previously but it wasn’t due to anything like this, his bad case was two years ago and we didn’t quite determine what caused it.
The feed was in another horses stable, the owners of that horse had just gone to fetch hay from the other end of the yard but the door was open, and so with him getting out of the field he just wandered in. The gate just hadn’t been shut properly.
I’m going to keep him out of the main field for the next two days as there’s bales of hay in there at the moment and don’t want him gorging on those aswell.

Some interesting stories you guys have! Definitely put my mind at ease a bit!
 
My first pony ate mine and my friends lunches after getting into a spare stable where we had left them in lunch boxes. Items consumed were cheese sandwiches, ham sandwiches, pork pie, crisps, small chocolate bars with wrappers!! We were 10 yo at the time and never even thought about calling the vet!! We found it highly amusing and pony was fine!!
 
Non horsey builders laying a new concrete base and path at a livery yard once fed our TB sausage rolls. He was in on box rest and very friendly. When they ate lunch he whinnied so they thought he was hungry. He seemed to like sausage rolls so they brought him extra the next day😂. On day 3 they were seen doing it and kindly requested not to by YO. He was absolutely fine.
 
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