GREYSMEADOW
Well-Known Member
Many thanks to you all for your help and advice. I hope this has helped others with feed issues
its probably got some of us re-thinking too. What feed is safe?!! I totally agree that there should be some legislation with labelling of horse feed and for laminitics especially they seem to just hide the ingredients/sugar/starch content on the bags.
I have started to do an analysis of all these different feeds but this will take me a while to do or unless someone has already done this exercise before and can advise me that would be a great help. I am now thinking about how much sugar/starch there is in high fibre cubes too.
My Shetland is improving since Saturday and is on constant foot and feed monitoring watch. I did speak to the Hoofkind people and they did say that the feed is suitable for laminitics (says it on their bags!!!!) and the molasses/sugar content should be ok which it clearly isnt when I told them about the half a brick (of possible molasses) I found at the bottom of the bag. I am to provide them details of the batch no. etc for them to investigate.
Thanks again please still keep advising. Another help would be if you could all advise me of the feed content from your bags. I have been looking at manufacturers websites and emailing them for details but I do wonder if they advise differently on their websites and feed bags!
I have started to do an analysis of all these different feeds but this will take me a while to do or unless someone has already done this exercise before and can advise me that would be a great help. I am now thinking about how much sugar/starch there is in high fibre cubes too.
My Shetland is improving since Saturday and is on constant foot and feed monitoring watch. I did speak to the Hoofkind people and they did say that the feed is suitable for laminitics (says it on their bags!!!!) and the molasses/sugar content should be ok which it clearly isnt when I told them about the half a brick (of possible molasses) I found at the bottom of the bag. I am to provide them details of the batch no. etc for them to investigate.
Thanks again please still keep advising. Another help would be if you could all advise me of the feed content from your bags. I have been looking at manufacturers websites and emailing them for details but I do wonder if they advise differently on their websites and feed bags!
