No Sugar diet help please?

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I have decided to try and feed a diet with no sugar for my spooky pony to see if it makes a difference to him.....
so i am now going to soak his hay for 12 hours to take any sugar out of that. Also going to feed unmollassed beet - but after looking at all the feed sites in search of some sort of chaff - they all seem to contain sugar/mollases. does any one know of one that it totally sugar free please?
 
Hmmm, I use Graze On which is dried grass only. Readigrass is much the same.

I fed one of mine Allen & Page Sugar and Cereal Intolerance Mix and she utterly hated it, incidentally.
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Mollichaff do a calmer version- its worked wonders with my new TB. Simple Systems have no (added) sugar in their products, so it may be worth a call to them- but they are not cheap.

Try the Mollichaff- it was reccomended to me from people on here, and has definaly worked. Good luck!
 
thanks for the replies.
Silvershadow81 - i have been using the mollichaf calmer and at first i thought there was a breakthrough but he now seems worse than ever on it.
I have looked at the simple systems feed but some one told me the Lucerne sometimes is like rocket fuel!
 
You can email/phone Simple Systems - they have been really helpful with my mare. The lucerne products are just alfalfa based products in different forms (chaff, beet etc.) - so like Alfa A but without all the molasses.
 
My horse needs a low sugar diet.

My horse is on fast fibre from allen and page and ride and relax and mollychaff as they use a low sugar ingredient.

I have to avoid all sugar beet, even unmolassed as he gets scour.

It is nearly impossible to eliminate all sugar from a horse's diet unless you chop your own chaff with a chaff cutter (hard work) and feed straights with a GP supplement and soak hay for 12 hours. Not forgetting grass, that contains a lot of sugar too and this would have to be avoided too.
 
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My horse needs a low sugar diet.

My horse is on fast fibre from allen and page and ride and relax and mollychaff as they use a low sugar ingredient.

I have to avoid all sugar beet, even unmolassed as he gets scour.

It is nearly impossible to eliminate all sugar from a horse's diet unless you chop your own chaff with a chaff cutter (hard work) and feed straights with a GP supplement and soak hay for 12 hours. Not forgetting grass, that contains a lot of sugar too and this would have to be avoided too.

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i have just looked at the fast fibre and wondered if it was good? could i feed that on its own or do i need some sort of chaff?
 
Unfortunately eliminating all sugar from horses diets is near impossible. What you can do is feed low starch feeds.

HiFi lite is what i feed a very spooky jumpy WB he also gets Baileys Lo-cal. He was on SS feeds but tbh there was no differance in him between that & Hifi apart from cost. Hifi lite does have a light coating of molasses but i doubt it would be enough to cause much of a problem it certainly hasnt in my super spooky boy.

I think what your suffering at the moment is what many of us are the grass!!
My horses have been a bit unpredictable for the last few weeks without any feed changes at all so it has to be the grass which seems likes its having another flush atm.

What about adding a magnesium Calmer into your ponys diet?? Something like Topspec Calmer??
 
Hi, I haven't read all the posts but wanted to send you my sympathy and say that although it is difficult until you find the best diet for your horse a sugar-free diet can be done. My mare who lived to be 24 (and was pts about 4 yrs ago) was found to be extremely sensitive to sugar in her diet at the age of 12. We didn't have to soak her hay but found that she could tolerate non-mollassed sugarbeet and alfalfa very well. At the time we really struggled but because she couldn't eat cereals either and this was before the feed companies recognised that not all horses/owners want high sugar/high ceral mixes. Later we also fed her readi-grass. I bet you'll get some people recommending some of the 'low sugar' feeds but please don't use them, they are almost always too 'high sugar' for horses which are intolerant.
Good luck!
 
i would say hi fi lite would be your best or alpha alpha that is very low in sugars and allen page do a sugar and introlrance food that is very low in everything that may be worth a look!
 
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