Soaking pellets, always?

[trubandloki]

I have yet to encounter a boarding barn that soaks pellets for any horse except the special needs critters.

My old horse with dental issues gets his pellets soaked. My other two do not get their food soaked. My one horse will simply not eat soaked food, she is sure I am trying to poison her if I make her food wet.

Nothing wrong with soaking if you like to or your horse needs their feed soaked, there is also nothing wrong with not soaking for the average horse.

[AKB]

My 28 year old won’t eat anything that is wet. Therefore, his food is always fed dry. At times, he has eaten as much as a full 2.5 gallon bucket of various pellets and grain, 2 or 3 times a day. He has eaten dry alfalfa cubes, 1 bucket twice a day. Since he refuses to eat wet food, I tell myself this is his choice. he is such a slow, picky, eater, that I don’t think he will choke.

[sassy45]

There are horses who flat refuse to eat soaked feed,so leaves no choice but to feed it dry. If i forced the soaked feed issue with my mare she’d just not eat …then end up a rack of bones.

If you spread pellets out in a large trough so just a thin layer,horse can’t get big mouthfuls…been doing this for months now. It works horse hasn’t choked…and she has choked in past.

[kashmere]

[QUOTE=Sansena;8595267]
Kashmere, what volume of pellets was he fed? I’m thinking of adding 1/2 coffee can, tops for now. The rest of his meal is TC Sr. with cocosoya oil.[/QUOTE]

Hmm, I always measure in weight, and it was about 4lbs/feeding. If I recall, it worked out to close to 4/5 litres, volume wise. We lost this horse last fall (age 29 ) so I haven’t been feeding him for a while - but that’s roughly accurate.