One of my horses has tested mildly allergic to red clover, kentucky blue grass, meadow fescue (yep, have all of them in my pasture), timothy, orchard grass (yep, feed those), alfalfa, bermuda grass, johnson grass, perennial rye, quack grass?, sweet vernal? and red top! I don’t even know what some of these are!
He is mildly allergic, but I don’t want to feed him hay that he is even mildly allergic to. The other horses aren’t allergic to any of these.
What do I feed him??? All suggestions welcome. I could put him on allergy shots–that’s an option. Thanks for your help.
Teff hay. Said to be hypoallergenic and might be worth a trial.
yeah agree on the Teff, we have been feeding Teff for about five years now. Also use Teff pellets for the older mare, these are soaked for her
The Teff baled hay we get has been about $600 a ton
Our supplier has seen increased demand for Teff. When we first started using it they were selling two semitruck loads a year, now it is about one a week.
What test was done, and was the horse in a reactive state when that was done? What does “mildly allergic” mean?
If it was a blood test, especially Nextmune, know that blood testing for food allergies in horses is highly unreliable. You can get a lot of low “hits” if there’s a leaky gut situation. True allergies would be high hits. They used to give you numbers, and an allergy would be in the 1000 range or so. But lots of low hits, 100-200, is more likely to be a leaky gut issue
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