Provence - Horse feed (Page 3): The AngloINFO Forum

I've been researching Cushing's out of interest (because it's three in the morning and I can't sleep) and the pro and anti luzerne debate is interesting.

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Brucie replied on 02/11/2009 at 13:37

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Racaille Easily done, but you are right when you say horse owners get a little too precious about their horses and rush out to buy the supplemental bagged food. In the wild they would be eating grass and wild herbs and none of this fancy stuff that we try and pump into them. I personally advocate regular exercise and keep horses on a basic diet of hay or alfalfa, which in the summer we supplement with grains as our horses play polo and in the winter we give them crushed maize to let them warm up in the colder evenings. When issues like the trailrider has the old hands will tell you regular exercise and a diet of low grade hay or a mix of hay and alfalfa. I understand where trailrider is coming from to give a supplement to make feeding the medicines easier. Sadly with Cushings you will never be able to cure it and only able to give some relief to the symptons.

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racaille replied on 03/11/2009 at 19:01

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I'm embarrassed that my posts sound judgmental and I really didn't mean them to be. I was just trying to find a simpler way, but of course I do understand the need to hide meds and also to avoid 'hard feed envy' with the companion.

Horse feeding is such a minefield, what with everyone's different opinion. And I do realise that we can't feed them exactly as they would eat in the wild or there would be no time to ride them LOL!

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Trailrider replied on 03/11/2009 at 23:02

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Brucie,thank you Very much for finding ceres64.I rang them yesterday and they were very helpful.I shall be ordering through them .The Havan product looks very interesting and they also have dengie produts aswell.

I had previouly contacted Spillier fr with no luck as they dont come down this far.

Its really important i keep to the same diet has she is so well on it . With her cortisol levels dropping all the time and she looks great.

Last week i did a 20 k ride at a slow pace and at 20 yrs with no shoes i think thats pretty good !

Racaille ,I would love to go for a long ride i am up in the top end of the Var where are you ?

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