What Do You Feed Your Old Horse
Our old girl turned 35 this past January and she looks really, really good for her age. I've played with her diet some and have hit on the magic formula for her. She gets 16 pounds of sweet cob, 2 p...
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My 32 year old developed cushings. Key to keeping them alive and thrifty is by eliminating all sugars.
Boy does that send you learning about how much sugar is in "everything"!
Very interestingly Equine Senior which is developed for the aged horse has a ton of sugar in it. Alfalfa which is always recommended for the senior horse, tons of sugar.
Without having a commercial feed to feed her safely I developed a recipe that not only kept her alive and not succumb to laminitis from the cushings, but looking great also.
I had 'timothy 'only' hay cubes shipped in from Canada. They were soaked in hot water and then mixed with a construction tool used for mixing taping compound. To make a wet mash and then a small amount of pure black strap molasses, vitamins and electrolytes, and pelleted stabilized rice bran were added to that.
There was no way to store this mixture so it had to be made twice a day fresh. Difficult at best to prepare during below freezing temps but she was worth every minute it took to prepare! :C
My vet gave her a year to live. She lived to be 36 on this home made diet and actually died from something other than the Cushings.
Baksheesh - 36 year old Tennessee Walker
Boy does that send you learning about how much sugar is in "everything"!
Very interestingly Equine Senior which is developed for the aged horse has a ton of sugar in it. Alfalfa which is always recommended for the senior horse, tons of sugar.
Without having a commercial feed to feed her safely I developed a recipe that not only kept her alive and not succumb to laminitis from the cushings, but looking great also.
I had 'timothy 'only' hay cubes shipped in from Canada. They were soaked in hot water and then mixed with a construction tool used for mixing taping compound. To make a wet mash and then a small amount of pure black strap molasses, vitamins and electrolytes, and pelleted stabilized rice bran were added to that.
There was no way to store this mixture so it had to be made twice a day fresh. Difficult at best to prepare during below freezing temps but she was worth every minute it took to prepare! :C
My vet gave her a year to live. She lived to be 36 on this home made diet and actually died from something other than the Cushings.
Baksheesh - 36 year old Tennessee Walker
