Slobber Mash

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Quite simply I have an elderly mare with bad teeth and will need to adjust her diet dramatically as she is loosing condition/weight fast.

I have had slobber mash recommened to me but I know nothing about it (is it a base feed/complete feed?)

Has anyone used it.... can anyone recommend or warn off?
 
i've just put my gelding onto barley rings and sugar beet to get a bit of weight on him before winter and hunting comes up x He loses weight too quick with the amount of exercise he has and he can be stressy. He's only had 6 feeds so far and i can honestly already see the difference! It can make them hyper apparently but so far he has been ok x (fingers crossed!) x

He has a scoop of each and a handful of chaff and a scoop of conditioning cubes as well but you could just try the barley rings and sugar beet as it is a mash when wet so easy to digest x
 
I know nothing about slobber mash but do have a pony with bad teeth. She has spillers high fibre cubes with hot water added to turn it into a mash. I then add cold water to it. This should work with any cubes but the high fibre cubes you can get are often designed to be a hay replacer. Mine can still eat haylage though.
 
I feed slober mash
to add condition on my oldie. She licks the bucket clean where previously I was struggling to get her to finish.
It's reasonably priced and a sack lasts, would definatly recommend.
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If you read the ingredients it is a very high cereal feed, and therefore will be high in starch. I am always cautious about feeding high cereal feeds to veterans as many older horses can have undiagnosed Cushings and are susceptible to laminitis when fed high starch feeds.

You would be better feeding things like unmollassed beet, soaked grass nuts, soaked fibre cubes and/or low starch veteran feeds like Veteran Vitality.

If teeth are bad enough to make chewing hay difficult then you need to ensure you feed either short chop or mash-type hay replacers in sufficient quantities to ensure weight is maintained.
 
hi does any one know if it is heated slobber mash as i have a young horse and trying to keep weight on has been hard but do not want him to go mad!!!!!!!!!!
 
Nic2u2 said:
Quite simply I have an elderly mare with bad teeth and will need to adjust her diet dramatically as she is loosing condition/weight fast.

I have had slobber mash recommened to me but I know nothing about it (is it a base feed/complete feed?)

Has anyone used it.... can anyone recommend or warn off?
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Its Havens slobber mash you need. It is fantastic my mare has been on it for 3 years. My vet put her on it as she was colicky and it is made for horses prone to colic. It maintains weight and doesnt make them fizzy either. I soak it cold in the summer and warm in the winter. My horse loves it. You dont need feed it with anything, just on its own. http://www.horsefeed.nl
 
Its full of cereals, we have some on the yard and I could tell by looking at it that it would send my TB skyward.

Are you feeding enough Fibre? Ad lib hay/haylege?
 
i feed CS the Havens Slobbermash for the very reason that it makes him sharp as hell!

admittedly not all horses react to it, i know yards and yards (everything from 3yo to GP horses) that dont have a prob with it, but it changed CS overnight and 2 friends who have used it on my reccomendation found the same (they both wanted it for lazy idle devils too so were pleased with the results!).

try before you buy or you could get bucked off!

its a fantastic quality product and its beefed up his topline no end, his coat is gorgeous and his stamina (as well as short burst energy) is much improved.

I love it, but CS is in hard work, i dont think it would work so well on something in light work unless it was a VERY lazy none reactive horse.

ETA if she's not in work i think you would be fine, you wont have to sit the bucking lol!

CS gets 2 scoops (dry weight) a day, soaked in an equal amount of water, split in to 3 feeds and mixed with alfa a oil and winergy high energy used as a chaff. Not very scientific but it works for him, better than any other feed ive tried (and NMT and I have worked our way through the entire stock list of our feed shop between him and Fig!)
 
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I feed Rowan Barbary's ready mash - have a look at their range of mashes as mine love them.

Mine are on the blue bag - it is a high fibre, low heating one, and fully balanced so don't have to add anything. If you are after conditioning, the red bag has added oil.
 
I also use the Rowan Barbary ready mash (I use the extra) and this has helped my old boy put on weight, but I also feed plenty of Alfa Oil which is fab stuff. I have upped his feed to 1.5 scoops of mash (thats dry, then its soaked in plenty of water) and 3 big scoops of alfa oil, split between 3 feeds and he has started to put the weigh on great now :)

If your mare is able to eat chaff, which I'm guessing she can, I would definitely put her on alfa oil in any case, made a real difference to mine when he first went on it! The mash mixed in makes it nice and sloppy.
 
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