This is one of the several, and growing, “forage balancers” around these days. It’s as good as any of them, as all of them do a very good job balancing some forages, and none of them do a good job balancing all forages.
If more people would pay attention to optimal nutrition, and not just “he’s not obviously sick/unwell”, horses (and people) would be a lot better off.
Truth, have senior who is getting ~5 lbs per feeding right now because as soon as leaves drop so does his weight, which means 10 days per $26/bag. Still the best stuff ever and worth it, nearly looks better now as a lame senior than he did getting ridden and groomed nearly daily as a young horse.
I hope you read that as a compliment because you write very descriptively ( did I spell that right?).
I am so sorry the diagnosis wasn’t good on your mare, but the fact that she is sound at the walk and has a great mind ( so it sounds) makes it possible to ride her lightly at least. I hope you can enjoy her. My daughter rides her horse at a walk most times and we have nice trail rides. Good luck with her.
As above you change feeds slowly over 2 weeks. You never give a horse a generous amount on the first day. The older the horse is, the more you have to follow the rules. To break them can mean colic.
I don’t know if you know that giving bute daily is damaging. It causes ulcers.
Why sweet feed? By that I presume it has molasses in it. I avoid giving them molasses daily. Pure sugar.
Uh no definitely not something to try to live off… I know. I have one. Switched from editing to what I do now because I was never going to go get more than a few bucks more than minimum wage unless I moved to where the cost of living was also higher. I loved getting my degree tho, it was such a creative blast!! Wound up going both prose and poetry paths at the same time, most people focus on one. But based on the fact I can’t get a freelance editing job tells me there are thousands of us out there looking for freelance editing work while doing something else, or while trying to write the next Great American Novel (no, I’m not working on one, haven’t had the calling I guess).
Molasses is not pure sugar. Beet molasses is 50-60% sugar, 10-20% water, 10-20% nutrients, cane molasses is a bit lower sugar, and in the amount used in most feeds, 2-5%, it’s contributing very little.
Lol that comment was not actually fatual but tongue in cheek. It is how I feel when I see it.
There is molasses licks you can get for cattle and buy by the 44 gallon. My cattle are so deprived!
I dont have a problem,Touchwood, with insulin horses or anything like that. I
I use molasses water in used worming syringes to get them used to that but not in a daily feed.
I figured sentiment to molasses might have changed that sweet feeds are still available.
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