Soaked Oat diet - oats in droppings?

[S_N]

Last time I fed this diet, I do not remember seeing oats coming out the other end - it's making poo picking a NIGHTMARE, as the birds (mainly phesants) are scattering it EVERYWHERE!!! Whilst this may be a good thing, as they may well be eating any worms (they may not be too of course), it is also very annoying that the feed is obviously not being digested. I soak them for 24 hours - do you think I should soak for longer?

 

[Eaglestone]

I was always told, basically, that if what goes in one end, comes out undigested, it's due to their teeth and not chewing it properly

So perhaps have the horse's teeth checked?

Mind you it could be like us eating too quickly and not chewing it properly ... even more

 

[monkeymad]

I think wot you can see in the droppings will just be the outer shell of the oats?

 

[seabiscuit]

Ellen says that it is perfectly normal to expect a few oats in the droppings

 

[seabiscuit]

P.S Have you only just changed them over to the soaked oat diet? can take a good while for them to develope the right enzymes etc?

 

[S_N]

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P.S Have you only just changed them over to the soaked oat diet? can take a good while for them to develope the right enzymes etc?

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Ahhh that could well be it! Cheers hun!

Regarding dentistry, mine were all done in Jan!

 

[Pep12]

Ditto is probably just the hulls you are seeing.