I’ve tried all different products/mixing in products to yummies, etc, and mini will NOT eat it. she’ll leave the little nuggets, no matter what I do, (applesauce, molasses, sweet feed, etc) I want to know if any? of you have ever pulverized a dose and loaded it into a paste type tube and ‘given’ it that way?
The newest research indicates that the best way to get rid of sand is to feed a good quality grass hay to the horse right after light exercise (jog trotting for a few minutes) that has not caused the horse to become over-heated.
Soaked Beet Pulp is said to be better than psyllium pellets at sweeping sand. Maybe work some beets into mini pony’s diet instead?
I’ve given psyllium via NG tube mixed in mineral oil, so I don’t see why you couldn’t mix it with water. It’s going to get wet as soon as it’s in the horse anyway 
Ok, I don’t want to sound as if I don’t appreciate you guys, BECAUSE I DO! YOU are my GO TO people. that said: csaper: I do not have a horse I can stuff with grass hay. I have a mini. she will eat hay, but not all hay, is very picky and will go back out on the DIRT and pull up roots. she is also DIGGING in it. she wants Grass, and is consuming so much DIRT the bottom of the heated muck tub water bucket has a layer on the bottom. I’m sorry, ? but I didn’t think I had to add all that. I thought my original concern of: I need to feed a sand clear product to a horse that will not eat it" was enough. Smart Alex: thanks and I’ll? see? if vet feels that would work? she, again? is a mini, and I’m looking for a sand clear method for a week a month…but can’t find one she’ll eat!!! And McV…I will try it!!! I have to find something. Almost lost her last month to a heavy worm load/worming…but she hoovers the dirt/sand so much I have to do something!! to care for her!
Isn’t Sand Clear like Metamucil? I don’t see why you couldn’t wet some of that up and dose her.
No “stuffing” is needed, letting a horse eat an appropriate amount of good quality grass hay (post mild exercise) is all that is required. It will need to be done several times a week until a manure test shows sand is no longer a problem. Sand settles in the gut, nothing will ‘bull doze’ it out. It needs to be suspended in the gut contents by exercise to be removed successfully.
Have you done a sand test on the mini’s manure to be sure sand is an issue?
Is she eating the dirt, or just digging up the rhizomes of the dormant grass? The rhizomes are where the grass stores sugar to jump start it’s growth in the spring. Most horses find them delicious.
If she is eating the dirt perhaps a mineral supplement is in order.
