Sugar intolerance advice please.

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Good evening all.Hope you are all well.My new girlie is Sugar intolerant and i was wondering what the best feed is to give her and what chaff i could feed her on.She can eat haylage but not anything with molasses in.Any advice would be great. Thankies.
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I had a horse with a sugar intolerence. Your horse's intolerance must only be slight as mine couldn't take anything other than soaked hay and very small amounts fo hard feed!

I used to feed him Allen and Page's Sugar and Cereal Intolerance feed (see http://www.allenandpage.com/products/16.shtml) which also contains a probiotic to help settle their digestive system. The feed contains chaff so no need to add. However, it is quit expensive!
 
One of mine has a sugar intolerance and we have had some awful times with him colicking before we discovered what the problem was.

He is now kept in 24/7 as I dont have access to a tiny paddock and am not able to do half hour turn out. He is fed on Allen & Page Ride & Relax with Dengie Hi-Fi Lite and as much soaked hay as he wants on a pretty constant basis. I also add Global Herbs Prebioherb to help his tummy, this along with the fact he is permanently eating hay therefore the gastric juices are working seems to do the trick.

Be careful when choosing your feed that all the ingredients are listed as just like our food the sugar i.e. molasses can be hiding everywhere. If a feed company lists ingredients as for example: peas, maize, barley, balancer pellet, soya etc you need to know exactly what is in the balancer pellet.

Hope you find a diet that suits your horse, it is not as difficult as it used to be as the manufacturers seem to be waking up to the fact that many horses are sugar intolerant.
 
All of these work on our sugar intolerant pony...

Spillers Hi fibre cubes
Dodson & Horrell Fibergy (chaff) the lowest sugar one of all.
AlphaBeet (unmollassed beet and alfa a)

Don't feed Happy Hoof, it's very sweet. I thought it would be fine as its laminitis trust approved, it turned out that was responsible for most of my boys "issues" with sugar intolerance - he was a changed pony when we switched him to Fibergy.

Interesting what's said about being itchy above. Our boy's itchy too. Never thought to link it with the sugar intolerance.
 
Mine is sugar intollerant, but can't cope with haylage at all. She lives off Hay, Alfa A Oil and in the winter gets some Allen and Page Sugar & Cereal intollerance mix or Spillers Sugar Free mix. I also have to restrict her grazing.
 
With our old TBxWelsh who was sugar and cereal intolerant we kept her ok till she was 24 (when we think she had a stroke), on hay, alfalfa cobs and unmolassed sugar beet, this was the regime we started when she was 12 and days away from being PTS as she was dangerous to lead, never mind unridable! She did appear to become agorophobic for about 3 days as we stopped the sugar straight off, we decided after the event that we would have done better weaning her off it slowly.
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Good luck with yours and hope that you have as much success with yours as we did with ours. She was a wonderful mare who was probably the most affectionate in the world.
 
When you say sugar intolerant, do you actually mean 'insulin resistant' ?

Has the Horse had a glucose level check, as unregulated sugar levels can seriously play with your head as well as your general health (I'm diabetic)
 
Have any of these horses had a Glucose tolerance test ?

Cereals are carbohydrates, as are also refined sugars.

Sugar intolerance is a very vague description, can anyone elaborate on this condition ?
 
Why not try Simple Systems - their feeds are fibre based and contain no molasses etc.

Since changing to their products my boys have never looked better. I feed the low cal products so they get huge buckets of feed but keep weight off.

They also do feeds with more cals for the less well endowed.
 
My friends pony is sugar intolarant and she's been recommended by our vet to feed Allen and Page's Sugar and Cereal Intolerance feed & weight gain when needed, plus Speedibeet and Dengie HiFi Lite
 
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