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Did the feeds tonight, and dished them out as per usual.
My 4 yr old had eaten half her feed when she walked away from the bucket. Had a look at her 5 mins later to find huge amounts of feed and fluid pouring out her nose. Vet called, poor girl has been sedated and tubed to relieve a blockage just before the stomach. The stuff was so thick (despite the amount of water being pumped in to water it down) it kept blocking the tube.
A lot of head scratching later, we had worked it out. The feed bins were moved about today whilst tidying up. I had wrongly given Sass Calm and Condition instead of Fast Fibre. One requires a 60 second soak. The other a 10 minute soak. I had fed C&C with just a 60 second soak:(
Lesson learnt. They might LOOK the same but they are so NOT the same when it comes to preparation!
 
joeanne said:
Did the feeds tonight, and dished them out as per usual.
My 4 yr old had eaten half her feed when she walked away from the bucket. Had a look at her 5 mins later to find huge amounts of feed and fluid pouring out her nose. Vet called, poor girl has been sedated and tubed to relieve a blockage just before the stomach. The stuff was so thick (despite the amount of water being pumped in to water it down) it kept blocking the tube.
A lot of head scratching later, we had worked it out. The feed bins were moved about today whilst tidying up. I had wrongly given Sass Calm and Condition instead of Fast Fibre. One requires a 60 second soak. The other a 10 minute soak. I had fed C&C with just a 60 second soak:(
Lesson learnt. They might LOOK the same but they are so NOT the same when it comes to preparation!
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Sorry to hear this! Glad your girl ok and you managed to find out what it was. Just and idea label your feed bins i do and it brilliant, as then if i need someone to feed for me all names on bins!! x
 
I am paranoid about doing something like this - it is too easy. Lucky that these kind of things only take a small amount of time to soak up these days. Hope your horse recovers quickly and without lasting effect. I used to have a gelding that suffered from choke when fed horse & pony cubes - I won't feed them to this day after seeing him suffer the way he did, (he is no longer with us, bless him, but had a good long life - cube free).
 
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