DurbanSkies
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Hi all,
I’m really struggling with my fussy Tb and getting feed into him at the moment.
He used to have a great appetite but he’s had several bouts of colic, starvation periods and ulcers over the last 6 months which led to a long course of gastroguard and eventual keyhole colic surgery.
He dropped weight like mad after all of this and I’m trying to build it back on - he’ll happily munch on grass but we’re limited down south to how much there is. And he is very fussy with his hay and haylage so he gets two giant nets of each every night in the hopes he’ll eat it.
He used to be on ulcer kind cubes, alfalfa, copra, linseed and equi jewel. But my low-key retailer has stopped supplying equi jewel so debating swapping back over to omega rice. Over time he was leaving more and more of his feed until most of it was ending up on the floor. I’ve since switched the cubes for re leve mix as it’s meant to smell super nice - this worked for about a week where he was fighting to get his head in the bowl and licking it clean. But this week absolutely back to square one, kicking the bucket over and leaving a lot of it. Nothing has changed at all. I’m now considering putting him on a molassed chaff to see if I can get him eating more of his dinner again. As he’s a full of eventer I can’t have him dropping weight at all and in reality I need him to gain like mad ? if anyone has any suggestions I’d much appreciate it as I’m at my wits end
I’m really struggling with my fussy Tb and getting feed into him at the moment.
He used to have a great appetite but he’s had several bouts of colic, starvation periods and ulcers over the last 6 months which led to a long course of gastroguard and eventual keyhole colic surgery.
He dropped weight like mad after all of this and I’m trying to build it back on - he’ll happily munch on grass but we’re limited down south to how much there is. And he is very fussy with his hay and haylage so he gets two giant nets of each every night in the hopes he’ll eat it.
He used to be on ulcer kind cubes, alfalfa, copra, linseed and equi jewel. But my low-key retailer has stopped supplying equi jewel so debating swapping back over to omega rice. Over time he was leaving more and more of his feed until most of it was ending up on the floor. I’ve since switched the cubes for re leve mix as it’s meant to smell super nice - this worked for about a week where he was fighting to get his head in the bowl and licking it clean. But this week absolutely back to square one, kicking the bucket over and leaving a lot of it. Nothing has changed at all. I’m now considering putting him on a molassed chaff to see if I can get him eating more of his dinner again. As he’s a full of eventer I can’t have him dropping weight at all and in reality I need him to gain like mad ? if anyone has any suggestions I’d much appreciate it as I’m at my wits end