Please dont feed dry Pony Nuts

[pardalis]

It is scary. And of course, horses don't have the vomit reflex like we would in that situation. Our stomach and solar plexus would be pushing to get it out. It is right that massaging away from the head is correct as it's physically easier for it to go down.

Horses can indeed choke on anything. Their natural food is anything they can browse, grass etc. Hard feed and even hay/hayledge can cause a problem.

 

[caitlineloise]

Have to agree with everybody else, lot's of things can cause choke.

Our mare choked on hay (She used to wolf it down despite it being in two small holed hay nets!) Did a massive cough thing after a while and it all came shooting out of her throat/nose, it was disgusting looking, but glad she sorted herself out. It's very scary.

Hope he's feeling better soon

 

[TBB]

I've only seen choke twice TG, the first time was a yearling who choked on a hard piece of beet pulp that was in the soaked pulp and although we knew it was just a freak thing we have never soaked loose beet pulp since, we just soak the beet pulp nuts. The second time was a 3 year old in the field with a group and eating hay we think that she must have swallowed a piece a bit quick when someone had a go at her (she was low down on the pecking order). Both were fine afterwards and they never got it again. We feed dry stud nuts to plenty of them and never had a problem.

 

[Rudey]

Gingerwitch, I hope your horse is recovering well. You have my sympathy, my horse choked on pony nuts and it was horrifying.

However, it was soaked pony nuts! I used to wet my feeds down a lot, and what happened was that the pony nuts were that wet, they mushed down, compacted, and formed like a concrete blob. My horse was a greedy boy, and bolted his feed, and choked.

The vet came out 3 times, and couldn't shift it. In the end he had to be transported to the vets and have a camera down his throat The vet said that feed manufacturers should put a warning on he bags about over soaking feeds as this, in her experience, was a common cause of choke.

I have known horses choke on hay and carrots. It seems the greedier horses are prone to it. One piece of advice the vet gave me was to put a brick in his feed bucket to prevent him over loading his mouth and bolting feed. xx

 

[claireandnadia]

Nadia choked on dry chaff once. Every day I wet it but that day I didn't for some reason.
I didn't know what to do but I just rubbed her throat downwards and it cleared in a couple of minutes although it felt like hours.
I asked the vet after that and she said to walk them round. If it hasn't cleared after 10 minutes to call a vet out.