Shedding season!
I got an entire manure fork full of hair off of my Haflinger today. Spring is just around the corner!
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The fjords are sharing with me - no more fuzzy coats at the barn. I look like a horse when I’m done. 
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Well certainly not in the great white north. It’s full blown yak season up here with temps in the teens and 20s. Lucky you, I can’t wait! Bring on spring already!
Mine has been shedding since January 
Old thread but this year Leif has too. Oddly enough he was just diagnosed with Cushing’s but this year was early shedding. Last year was a late start.
I wonder how many ponies fjords could shed. 
Thats so weird, the thread came up in the Latest filter!!
Sorry to hear about the cushings with Leif, how is he doing?
I also wonder how many ponies 
He’s doing good. He’ll be 24 this May and his teeth are showing his age. He’s still chubby but doesn’t eat hay as well. He’s devoloping a wave.
He needed his teeth done again this spring even though they were done in the fall but he has stopped quidding for right now.
I found some bluegrass/alfalfa hay and it’s super soft. Its very light on alfalfa, 20 percent, but I’m going to have it tested. This stuff rates up there with Standlee timothy and alfalfa on palpability scale.
It’s also seemed to help the fecal water too. I’m glad… got a 1000 lb square bale and unloaded it by the flake. I would’ve aggravated had he refused to eat it. Lol
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Awww glad to hear he is still doing well and glad that he likes his hay!
On the fecal water, did he always have that? My gelding seems to get it seasonally in the summer and it subsides later in the fall. Ive been reading up on it and am hoping to try to get ahead of it this year. It seems to be around the time the new hay is cut and they switch to it. It’s all done on site and from the same fields year to year, so I’m not sure what the correlation is, but that’s the only thing I have come up with.
It’s gotten worse with age. It started when trailering or stressed, then with the change from grass to to hay, then progressed gradually to all winter while on hay and now year round.
Orchard grass hay and stemmy hay of any kind affects him the worst. He’s been much better this year than last since I started buying his hay. The barn feeds orchard grass.
Good luck with Charlie! I hope you can find something that helps him before it goes any further in the coming years.b
