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Post by mandal on Dec 27, 2008 23:28:20 GMT 1
Lol June! I took all mine off TS anti lam oh over a year/eighteen months ago now! I suspected one or 2 of them were more excitable and I hadn't really noticed any improvement.
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Post by june on Dec 28, 2008 14:27:52 GMT 1
The one of ours on Anti Lam was on it because she was such a good doer. All the others were on the balancer. She had been footy on and off for a couple of years and it looked like early Cushings - she's 21. She seemed to be getting worse and I was wondering if I was doing the right thing trying to keep her going.
Having seen a few posts about TS making horses footy I thought I'd nothing to lose taking her off it. Two days later she was flying round the field like a two year old and back being ridden within a couple of months. It could just be coincidence and I'd have to put her back on TS to see if it made her go footy again to really tell if it was the TS but I'm not brave enough to do that!
I've had a similar experience with Alfalfa recently with a Shetland with laminitis. She'd been off grass for 4 months and was still sore. She was on soaked hay and got a handful of Alfa A Lite to get her Yea Sacc and vitamin E capsule. I've switched her to unmolassed sugar beet recently and the improvement in her comfort has been enormous.
Just goes to show not every feed agrees with every horse. Our other 30 or so horses are fine on TS and Alfa A Lite so its reasonably rare for a feed not to agree with a horse, but it does happen.
It is much easier to work out if it is a feed that is responsible when there is a foot issue as the change when you take them off the feed happens very quickly. It is much harder to work out if it is a feed that is responsible when it is a behaviour issue as there are so many variables to behaviour, isolating the appropriate one takes lots of trial and error.
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