loose/ watery droppings

[samp]

As the title says really my mare regularly has loose/ watery droppings and was wondering if there was something I could feed to make them more solid/ normal as fed up with manky legs and tail.

She is better on hay however very picky and sometimes hard to get to eat so we try to mix hay and haylage. She is just on a healthy hooves, speedi beet and equilibra 500

 

[RachelB]

My mare is sloppy at the moment due to the spring grass (even the very little she is getting!) I am feeding her Pink Powder to help - it always stops the cow pats

 

[Llwyncwn]

One of mine suffers quite alot with this (he had laminitis 5 years ago which probably had a permanent effect on his gut). Whenever he gets a little loose I put him on a course of Coligone which clears him up straight away.

 

[silverbreeze]

I had problems with my horse being loose on speedi beet, he is fine on normal long soak beet though.
I feed digest plus through the winter as extra haylage causes my native types to be loose and this works well too.

 

[kellyeaton]

sloopy droppings are a sign of digestion upset so it could be the grass feed or hayledge try her on hay try strip grazing the grass so she does not have as much has her food changed? try her on a pre/pro biotic!

 

[samp]

Nothing has changed in her diet been on the same for over a year but I could try some probiotics etc

 

[cokelly]

My cob has very loose droppings for a while in the first year I had him- we figured out it was the haylage as it just wasnt good quality- once that was sorted he was back to normal

 

[cjdjivanovic]

My horses have had the same problem (runny droppings) because of wet haylage. To my amazement both the vet and a qualified nutritionist suggested half a scoop of bran dry, on a dry feed as a first attempt at sorting it. I'm not happy about doing it long term, but it does seem to work on an intermittant basis when I get a wet bale.

 

[Sharan]

I have found that a 5 day course of Panacur can work wonders.
Even some well wormed horses seem to benefit.

 

[Tnavas]

Pro-biotics would be my first choice. Either by adding a tub of live yogurt to her feed every day - they seem to love the Vanilla flavour. Cheaper than buying the vet stuff.

At one time I remember the vet tube drenching a pony that had loose watery droppings with a mix of warm water and a fresh dung from a healthy horse. Soounds gross but did the job! Re populated the gut with the correct bacteria.

Any horse thats been on antibiotics benefits from a course of pro-biotics.