seed hay and laminitis

spottybotty

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Would appreciate your thoughts and ideas on this. My friends horse came down with lami during the bad weather. He was diagnsoed with Cushings about 2 years ago. She has always been very carefull with his diet and has always given him soaked meadow hay in very small holed nets etc. During the big freeze she could not soak his hay and thinks this is partley why he has had the lami. She tried very hard to source some old hay (seems to be as rare as hens teeth with the shortage) and thought she had struck it lucky and found some. It was delivered but as she has started to use it it transpires that some is seed hay cut early last year. From what I can gather it is not very good quality seed hay but she is very worried about feeding it to him now. Would it make any difference if she just left it to age a bit more or is it to risky to feed seed hay at all.
 
depends on the sugar content. If it is rye grass it can be very high.

Mine does ok on thoroughly soaked meadow hay, but struggles on anything with rye in it, regardless of how well soaked and washed.
 
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