Leaving dinner?

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Daisy has been on box rest for several weeks with an injury to her tendon sheath. Vet has said that she can go out now so she is going out during the day in a little starvation paddock on her own. Since she started going out she has been leaving her feed. All I can assume is that she doesn't like the supplements I've put in it to help her joints but that she was hungry enough to eat them while she was on box rest. She had her teeth done while she was on box rest so I don't think it could be a problem eating and she is still happily tucking into her haynets every night.

Has anyone else had this happen? How would you tempt her to keep eating the supplements?
 
I suspect she would just fish them out but it might be worth a try. I'm at a loss because normally she would eat anything that isn't moving.
 
If she really needs the supplements, you could oral syringe them (having mixed them with apple puree/jelly etc first)?
Or maybe if you put her feed in the paddock she would pick at it during the day?
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Dermot went off his feed, although if you kept him in he would slowly eat it...He was like this for weeks and we put it down to not being happy in his new home. Then we had the blood tests after an leg injection which wasn't good results and then he coliced and in surgory they found an very od abese and his small instetine wasn't working as it was damanged. This it's to scare you but I will alway wonder if I'd had blood tests done as soon as he went off his feed. If he starts loosing weight badly then I would get a blood test.
 
My old mare was a fussy eater, she wouldn't eat chaff unless it was 'lite', didn't like he taste of supplements...was fussy with different types of nuts.

If you put carrots or apples in her feed it would help a little, but mostly she'd just pick then out.

In the end i just had to find something she liked. Changing her chaff helped alot and finding something she really liked that was irresistable. Maybe add a litle molasses as this will hide the taste of supplements, though i wouldn't feed it to a horse whos overweight.

I hope your horse finds its appetite again, good luck!
 
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I suspect she would just fish them out but it might be worth a try. I'm at a loss because normally she would eat anything that isn't moving.

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If you grate the apples/carrots she won't be able just pick them out
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