Soaked Oats - Advise please

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My horse has been on this diet for about 2 weeks now and has put on quite a bit of condition already so i am really pleased.

I do have one problem though and i was wondering if anyone else feeding this diet has experienced the same thing.

My horse is usually VERY forward going, you only has to tense and she knows what you want her to do and is off. She loves her jumping to and i have to jump her in a pelham otherwise i cant hold her, her nickname down the yard is psycho horse but the last couple of days she has gone from one extreme to the other.

I am really having to pony club kick her (to the point i am tired after 15mins), she isn't listening and even when i am jumping i am having to boot her into the jumps and she is knocking everything!!! We had a jumping session Sunday and she kncoked every single jump.

This is so out of character for her and i am so worried its the diet as nothing else has changed and she is fine in every other way.

I was even out hacking the other day and i asked for canter and after about 6 strides she broke back into trot. This is a horse that usually rodeo's the whole way round a field in excitement.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this on this diet?
 
I have had my horse on the soaked oats diet for about a month now, and this hasnt affected his behavior in any way- still as mental as ever!
 
Thanks, i have asked a few people and they have all said the same as you. Its just totally out of character for her and only the diet has changed
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She is perfectly normal and happy in every other way which is even weirder. I do need her saddle checked as she has changed shape in the last 4 months but this has been a drastic change in a few days
 
LOL if it is the oats you can have my 2 bags.

Serioulsy though you know what she is like to ride usually so you can see why i am a bit worried
 
I suggest you get her blood tested to check for any nasties- I doubt it's the diet suddenly kicking in but I suppose stranger things have happened!!
 
mine have been on this diet for over a week now, and are extremely chilled, the TBxID I was expecting to heat up on it is in fact very chilled so it is possible that what you were feeding before was in fact more heating?

might yours just be feeling a bit tubby? Maybe oats are good but not so many.
 
Sometimes virus's just make the horse abit lacklusture and energyless, not all horses will show if they are feeling abit low etc.

Just like us, my dad (if he is ill) just gets on with it, me however.. im dying always!!
 
Hi, I put my TB mare on conditioning cubes, as she dropped weight at the start of the winter, they work a treat on my other horse. But with her, they put the weight back on lovely, I was really pleased, didn't expect it to be so easy. But they made her really lazy and nappy! I think she just felt fat! although she wasn't at all! She was also fine in every other way. I have now changed her diet and she is back to normal.

hope this helps.
 
It sounds bizarre, you normally hear of horses going scatty on them!

do you think it could be because she feels full and sluggish, a bit like us going for a jog after eating xmas dinner! I imagine oats are quite filling and substantial.
 
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