My horse spits out his haylage.

[Stamford]

A month ago my horse started spitting out balls of chewed haylage. He can eat chaff, carrots, grass and even Horshage Timothy OK. My vet has rasped his teeth, x-rayed his teeth to check there is nothing cracked or broken and prescribed antibiotics in case he had a gum infection. They can find nothing wrong with him but he still spits out the haylage. Does anyone else have any experience of this or ideas of what could be causing this?

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Does he eat a bucket feed the same way, ie quidding? If not, it's probably a dodgy bale of haylage - it can go off like mad in the recent hot weather. If he's quidding with hard feed as well, then it MUST be something wrong in his mouth! Are you sure he hasn't done something silly like bite his own tongue? Or maybe got a piece of branch wedged in his mouth - some materials don't show up on x-ray. If he doesn't have a hard feed at all, I'd borrow some chaff off a friend and give it to your boy and watch to see if he has the same problem. Can he eat a carrot without quidding? If he's the same with everything he eats then I'd ask the vet for a referral to a specialist clinic. Is he elderly? Older horses can need lots of help with food if they don't have much in the way of teeth left.