Triple Crown Safe Starch Forage? For Cushings Pony

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Our pony, about 25 years old, is on Prascend to keep his ACTH at a good level. His teeth are getting worn, and he has had to have a couple pulled. He is still doing fairly well on Timothy Hay and grazing and Triple Crown Senior/Beet Pulp. It is winter now in SC, so lots of rain and yuck grass. I was wondering about also giving him Triple Crown Safe Starch Forage. It said on the label that it is for horses with worn teeth and it says low starch, which I think he needs because of his ACTH and the fact that we are of course also keeping an eye on his insulin level (still fine now – usually at about 16).

What does everyone think of TC Safe Starch Forage? If I use it, how much should I give him? Put it in a feeder?

Thank you!

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TC Safe Starch Forage kept my cushings pony alive for years. I fed him TC Senior + TC SS Forage once he was unable to chew hay or even grass. I fed moistened TC Senior in a bucket, and the forage in a large pan on the ground. I didn’t measure it precisely, just gave him a nice fluffy pile (it gets bigger once out of the bag and fluffed up). This combo worked great for him for a several years. Eventually, he started leaving the stemmier pieces of the forage behind, and with the price of it, it was a lot of waste, so I switched to a mix of hay pellets and beet pulp with no molasses, soaked but not soupy (he was picky that way). He was a pretty sturdy 13 hand Chincoteague pony who lived to 33.

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I have an aged pony with teeth that are worn down. I give her a pile of TC Safe Starch overnight, so that she has something to munch on. She gets most of it down, although she quids a good bit. Lately I have been decreasing her Safe Starch and replacing it with soaked TC Timothy Balance Cubes. There has been much less waste with the cubes versus the chopped forage.

I’m not sure how the soaked cubes are going to work out in the summer months, but for right now I prefer them to the chopped forage.