Spillers

[RachelB]

Does anyone feed (or know anyone who feeds) Spillers Happy Stabletime Chaff? My mare has gone off hay completely, she must have eaten 3 sections of it yesterday day and last night, she's usually a greedy pig and eats about 8 sections a day (she's on total box rest and gets about 30 mins of grass in-hand a day). I tried her on different bales of hay and she won't eat any of anything. We had a spare bag of ReadiGrass in the feedroom so I've stuck her on that which she LOVES. However it's meant to be dust extracted so you don't have to dampen it (as dry takes longer to eat) but she was coughing really badly eating it last night (she has bad airways anyway) so I've had to dampen it slightly. So now what would have taken half an hour to eat dry takes her 10 minutes. As ReadiGrass is quite high feed value I read the back of the bale and it says something about feeding the Happy Stabletime stuff if a lower feed value is needed. I found loads of feed merchants' websites that sell the stuff but nothing on the official Spillers website! Does anyone know anything about it?
Thanks!

 

[xxcharlottexx]

never heard of it im afraid but theres some info on this page if you scroll down...

http://www.spillers.es/eng_whatsnew.htm

how about feeding hi-fi lite of happy hoof instead?

 

[RachelB]

Hmm I found that earlier too but shame I'm not in Spain! Will email Spillers on Tuesday and see what they suggest. I specifically wanted that one as it's cheaper than Happy Hoof and is suggested as an alternative to the ReadiGrass, I need it as a partial hay replacer so it needs to take her as long as possible to eat (she wolfs HiFi and Happy Hoof pretty darned quick too). Getting quite worried about her now though as although her poos are normal and she's totally normal in herself etc., so it's not colic, she's eaten a section of hay all day (and about 2kg ReadiGrass as I made her eat it by standing over her!) I have stuck her in some of our newer, softer hay tonight in the hope that it may tempt her, she wolfed down the first few mouthfuls and I left her munching so fingers crossed.
Thanks for your help though!