Mounted search and rescue

[Juanita Hayes <j28l61h@yahoo.com>]

I've been reading the posts w alot of interest- I've got a 33 yo QH who's 
still active in SAR- He has no molars left- you can hear the gums sliding 
when he makes his "ugly face" at the other horses. Pelleted grain has 
probably saved his life. Whole grains go thru him without providing ANY 
nutrition- He can't chew them,so the grains come out looking just like they 
went in. Hay doesn't even make it that far- he just rolls it into cuds and 
spits them out.
  Special case aside- In general, feeding grain is NOT "natural" to me, but 
it is a neccessary evil- we ask our horses to live in our world. Pelleted 
feed has always made sense to me- it's "pre-digested" and is easy to add lots 
of water to. I've had horses choke with beet pulp or bran mash more often 
than colic with pelleted feed. (Usually when someone "helps" feed and doesn't 
know how vital that soak time is) My horses all eat with gusto, have 24/7 
turnout, and free access to good mixed grass hay. 
  Purina and Buckeye (and probably many other feed mills) make wonderful 
feeds that transport well, and fill a horse's gut with wonderful fiber- 
something I just don't feel "whole/texturized" grain does as well. I try to 
find the feed with the least "sweet" to it I can- mostly because I hate it 
when the stuff freezes solid, and I think my horses are less likely to bolt a 
dryer feed.
   
  Juanita Hayes
  TROT-SAR

                
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Hi Juanita,
I have a 35 year old gelding that sounds very similar to your horse.
What do you feed him?
We are feeding our horse 4 times a day a mixture of  Purina Senior, shredded
beet pulp, and Alfalfa cubes.   We mix with about 3 times the amount of
water to grain.  We feed one, make one, so each one soaks around 4 hours.
We have a set up our basement as a feed making station for him.  He consumes
around 6 pounds of feed at each feeding.  He slurps it all down.  He choked
about 5 years ago on pellets that weren't soaked well enough.  That was
pretty traumatic.  He is unable to swallow hay or grass through he chews it
and spits out wades everywhere.
He looks very good, no one ever guess that he is that old of a horse.
I am sure without this type of feeding he would not be with us.

Jill


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From: "Juanita Hayes" <j28l61h@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [MSAR] pelleted feed


> I've been reading the posts w alot of interest- I've got a 33 yo QH who's
still active in SAR- He has no molars left- you can hear the gums sliding
when he makes his "ugly face" at the other horses. Pelleted grain has
probably saved his life. Whole grains go thru him without providing ANY
nutrition- He can't chew them,so the grains come out looking just like they
went in. Hay doesn't even make it that far- he just rolls it into cuds and
spits them out.
>   Special case aside- In general, feeding grain is NOT "natural" to me,
but it is a neccessary evil- we ask our horses to live in our world.
Pelleted feed has always made sense to me- it's "pre-digested" and is easy
to add lots of water to. I've had horses choke with beet pulp or bran mash
more often than colic with pelleted feed. (Usually when someone "helps" feed
and doesn't know how vital that soak time is) My horses all eat with gusto,
have 24/7 turnout, and free access to good mixed grass hay.
>   Purina and Buckeye (and probably many other feed mills) make wonderful
feeds that transport well, and fill a horse's gut with wonderful fiber-
something I just don't feel "whole/texturized" grain does as well. I try to
find the feed with the least "sweet" to it I can- mostly because I hate it
when the stuff freezes solid, and I think my horses are less likely to bolt
a dryer feed.
>
>   Juanita Hayes
>   TROT-SAR
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