Officially an idiot - will mare get ill? HELP!

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Ok, so after being recommended Fast Fibre and hearing that some horses don't like it -

I grabbed a handful from friends bin, got distracted, went back and mixed feed and then proceeded to feed my mare.

SO.... fast fibre was unsoaked!! :mad:

Then realising I made her a really sloppy extra feed/drink to make her take in some water straight away.

Someone tell me she will be ok? It was literally a handful of dry fast fibre that she had but I am panicking. Lovely friend said she should be fine but I am just hoping for more reassurance here....

What a dimwit!!
 
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Well she would have been fine on a handful but if you made her a second feed as well then you have rather used up space in her stomach. It all depends on how much you filled the stomach. Stomach is roughly size of rugby ball, how big a feed did you give her?
 
Oh God, not the right thing to have done then. When I say I gave her another feed I just mean it was literally another handful of alfa with loads of water - cause I knew she would drink it. Thought it would be best to get some water in her to help the fast fibre.

So in total she ate her first feed which was - quarter scoop bran, quarter scoop alfa, mug of lo-cal and the dreaded handful of Fast fibre.

Then I gave her the sloppy alfa - so a handful of alfa with about two mugs of water................
 
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Billie1007 said:
Oh God, not the right thing to have done then. When I say I gave her another feed I just mean it was literally another handful of alfa with loads of water - cause I knew she would drink it. Thought it would be best to get some water in her to help the fast fibre.

So in total she ate her first feed which was - quarter scoop bran, quarter scoop alfa, mug of lo-cal and the dreaded handful of Fast fibre.

Then I gave her the sloppy alfa - so a handful of alfa with about two mugs of water................
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Well that doesn't sound a huge amount although I don't know how big your scoops are!

Just keep an eye on her, I'm sure she'll be fine.
 
She will be fine. You didn't feed her that much, and the water will lubricate and move everything along. Calm down.....
 
Deseado said:
She will be fine. You didn't feed her that much, and the water will lubricate and move everything along. Calm down.....
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This made me laugh. I don't know what it is - I don't worry about anything else in my life at all. I have a really stressful job that doesn't faze me one bit. I show zero signs of panic/stress even in the worst situations but when it comes to her I am like a nervous wreck! I worry about EVERYTHING!
 
Billie1007 said:
This made me laugh. I don't know what it is - I don't worry about anything else in my life at all. I have a really stressful job that doesn't faze me one bit. I show zero signs of panic/stress even in the worst situations but when it comes to her I am like a nervous wreck! I worry about EVERYTHING!
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That's because you love her!! Kids do the same to you!! X
 
Billie1007 said:
This made me laugh. I don't know what it is - I don't worry about anything else in my life at all. I have a really stressful job that doesn't faze me one bit. I show zero signs of panic/stress even in the worst situations but when it comes to her I am like a nervous wreck! I worry about EVERYTHING!
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I know exactly how you feel. A friends horse got into the feed room and eat some unsoaked sugar beet and was fine.:)
 
You are all right. I love her so much. I was going to post about this the other day actually - in relation to the lady who posted saying that she was fed up of horses taking up so much of her life etc (not in a bad way just a fed up way) and I was going to say the opposite.

At the minute I feel like I begrudge every second that I'm not at the yard, I hate having to be anywhere else! I make all sorts of excuses to get out of stuff or leave early so that I can get down there as soon as possible. I feel obsessed by her. Is this normal?

Thanks for your reassurance about the feed!!!!!
 
Honestly, I adore my husband but sometimes I think 'If I were single I could spend twice as much time at the farm'.

Think I need some help!
 
At one of my old yards we used to have a horse who could get out of his field, across another field and then into our feed room where about four people kept their feed, he used to eat copious amount of oats, fibre nuts, alfa a and stacks of sugar beet (unsoaked) he would then move down to where the yard owner's daughter kept her feed (the really expensive stuff) and gorge himself on that as well. He did this on a regular basis and not once did he suffer because of it, well apart from when the YO's daughter wanted to catch up with him to tell him off - I've never seen him (or the YO's daughter) move so fast!!!!!

:) :) :)
 
Clannad48 said:
At one of my old yards we used to have a horse who could get out of his field, across another field and then into our feed room where about four people kept their feed, he used to eat copious amount of oats, fibre nuts, alfa a and stacks of sugar beet (unsoaked) he would then move down to where the yard owner's daughter kept her feed (the really expensive stuff) and gorge himself on that as well. He did this on a regular basis and not once did he suffer because of it, well apart from when the YO's daughter wanted to catch up with him to tell him off - I've never seen him (or the YO's daughter) move so fast!!!!!

:) :) :)
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What a monkey!! :D sounds like my kind of horse though! My mare is equally greedy. Our barn has four fairly impressive steps down through a fairly slim doorway and YO was astounded as she watched my mare casually step her way down there and start munching on a bale of haylage. She never thought a horse would do it! Now we always keep the door locked!!
 
Billie1007 said:
What a monkey!! :D sounds like my kind of horse though! My mare is equally greedy. Our barn has four fairly impressive steps down through a fairly slim doorway and YO was astounded as she watched my mare casually step her way down there and start munching on a bale of haylage. She never thought a horse would do it! Now we always keep the door locked!!
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How funny this horse used to go up and down a flight of steps to get to the YO's daughters feed and he is anything but slim. In the end we all decided to put our feed in old chest freezers (we had someone at the yard whose OH to used to deliver new ones and take the old ones away for scrap) It was handy for keeping the little furries out - mind you if you are vertically challenged like me it was a nightmare to get the stuff out of the bottom - just picture body head first in freezer with feet frantically waving in the air :)
 
If it's just a handful don't worry, my lot have eaten worse and years ago my old jersy cow got out and opened a bag of pasture mix with her stump of a horn and ate the lot, luck for her she had 4 stomachs and very happy and content she looked too when I discovered her:D:D:D:D
 
Clannad48 said:
How funny this horse used to go up and down a flight of steps to get to the YO's daughters feed and he is anything but slim. In the end we all decided to put our feed in old chest freezers (we had someone at the yard whose OH to used to deliver new ones and take the old ones away for scrap) It was handy for keeping the little furries out - mind you if you are vertically challenged like me it was a nightmare to get the stuff out of the bottom - just picture body head first in freezer with feet frantically waving in the air :)
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:D Ha ha! YO has a chest freezer and sometimes I'll be talking for a while and she won't answer.... I'll go to investigate and see that she is halfway in her freezer and it's not suprising that she can't hear me!!! She is only about five foot so I am fairly certain I'll find her having fallen in one day!!
 
Echo Bravo said:
If it's just a handful don't worry, my lot have eaten worse and years ago my old jersy cow got out and opened a bag of pasture mix with her stump of a horn and ate the lot, luck for her she had 4 stomachs and very happy and content she looked too when I discovered her:D:D:D:D
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Bless her - bet her four were fairly full with that lot though! The things we put up with!!
 
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