Wheat and Soya free feeds

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Hi

After exhaustive allergy testing my mare has shown an allergic reaction to both Wheat and Soya, amongst an awful lot of other things!

However wheat and Soya are things I should be able to control fairly easily I hope.

Does anyone else have a horse allergic to these things? Can you recommend any particular companies or products that are suitable?

A cursory look around the internet is not telling me much!

Thanks
 
Oh Gosh I do feel for you, most feeds today contain soya and/or wheat. The basis for most cubes/nuts/balancers etc is either soya and/or wheat bran, although some contain oat bran.

My advice would be to contact several feed companies and explain your problem, most reputable ones will have no problem telling you the ingredients.
 
Lol, yep that's the trouble!

Even if the ingredients don't have soya or wheat listed, they do have listed "balancer nut" alongside the main ingredients, but then don't tell you what is in said balancer nut!

I was hoping I could get sorting out do's and dont's for her feedwise over the weekend, but nobody is answering ;) Shall get on to it Monday.

As far as I can see she is ok with her HiFi Apple anyway!

The tiger oats site has really confused me, on one page it says that Tiger Oats contain pure wheat grains, and on the next page it says pure oat grains!

This is going to be fun :p
 
I believe, but you would need to check with GWF, that Equilibra is Oat Bran based, although it could also contain soya. Tiger oats do have a small nut in them which could contain wheat, again you need to check with them.

You could go down the straights route and feed say, oats and alfalfa with a vit/min supplement or, you could go cereal free and feed say Speedibeet with alfalfa, again with a supplement.

You would have to check what the carrier base for the supplement was, as some of these can contain wheat/soya too.
 
I actually feed speedibeet and alfalfa with a vitamin supplement at present, although I will double check all of those too!

She has had gastric ulcers in the past so I am perfectly happy to keep her as cereal free as possible anyway. The Tiger Oats were just a very convenient way to feed last winter!
 
I have a pony with an allergy to soya so can tell you about that side of things but I don't know about the wheat bit, sorry.

Mine can have Alfa A lite, Readigrass, Speedibeet, Spillers horse and pony nuts. He can't have Pink Powder. Allen and Paige do one product that doesn't contain soya (I asked them at Badminton but can't recall which one it was). Their Fast Fibre does contain a small amount of soya from hulls (it is negligible) and he is fine on that - and it is from oat fibre. He can have Simple Systems grass nuts and their linseed.

I emailed / rang all the feed companies who had feeds that I was interested in and they were all very helpful - especially Dodson and Horrell, Allen and Paige, Spillers.

Although he could in theory have most of the Simple Systems feeds, he wouldn't eat any of their Alfalfa products so that limited us!
 
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