Avoid feeding horses crops from the sorghum family in all circumstances. In the green growth stage, these crops can cause cystitis syndrome, a urinary tract disease. What is the best forage for horses? Forage Crops for Horses Perennial Grasses. Base your forage program on a perennial pasture. Bermudagrass. Bermudagrass is Read more…
You can use it as a pasture or hay but it’s most commonly used during periods of high temperatures and drought. Sorghum-sudan grass isn’t a common horse feed, but you can feed it during droughts, especially when other forage is limited. Is Sudan grass toxic? All parts of the plant Read more…
The primary use for foxtail millet hay is for sheep and cattle. This grass can cause problems if used as a major part of a horse’s diet so as hay it should not be sold as horse hay. Problems include a laxative effect, excessive urination (cystitis), and kidney and bone Read more…
Feeding flaxseed, or its largely defatted meal linseed, is a time-honored practice in many sales-prep barns. It quickly puts the “bloom” on a horse. This occurs because flaxseed contains the right types of fat for healthy coats and hooves with other benefits. Is linseed good for horses feet? Keeping Hooves Read more…
Why choose Haylage? Haylage is great for horses in regular work, young horses with greater energy and protein requirements for growth and older horses who need an easily digestible source of forage. What is the best feed for older horses? Alfalfa hay and good quality grass hays are preferable to Read more…
Many equine nutritionists now recommend feeding haylage instead of hay although there are pros and cons to each. Haylage is much closer to the horses natural diet of grass, both in texture and nutritional value it is more palatable and digestible than hay, has a higher nutritional value and is Read more…
2-3 days. However, as a rough guide, a bale of haylage (when fed as the sole forage source) will last 2-3 days for a 15hh (approx. 450kg) horse. How long does an open bale of haylage last? 7-10 daysAlthough the traditional advice is 7-10 days open for a bale of Read more…
However, if it is dried to a dry matter above 50% then it will be too dry to support the clostridia to multiple. Haylage that is very acidic and wet may upset the hindgut of the horse leading to colic or even laminitis. Can you feed wet haylage? If the Read more…
I’m often asked if it’s okay to feed chickens rolled oats (the kind you buy for horses,) and the answer is yes. In fact, I recommend it! Oats are a good carbohydrate source, aren’t a hot feed, and aid in feather growth during the moulting season. What kind of oats Read more…
Lucerne is a high-quality feed and a valuable component of many, if not most horses’ diets. There are good reasons though why it shouldn’t be used as the only source of roughage for horses. Lucerne is a high-quality feed and a valuable component of many, if not most horses’ diets. Read more…