dustys foaling thread

[Eagle]

I agree with Diane, walk the whole field and then have her checked over by a vet. My guess is she was jealous of the other girls so she decided to pretend to be preggy too

Hugs

Renee

 

[lucky lodge]

i have booked dusty in to see the vet tomorow as well to ,,,, all are confusion will be solved tomorow

 

[Eagle]

Good idea, not long to wait. Are you on the same time as Cassie?

 

[lucky lodge]

no i think cassie is like 2 hours in front of me

 

[Eagle]

I wish you were on cam

 

[Lindi-loo]

Gosh Dusty what are you doing??..the comparison photos are very good but yes very strange how shes gone backwards..I know they have phantom pregnancies but to that extreme?? I cant see it but will be interesting to hear what the vet says

good luck x

 

[MeganH]

praying as well

 

[lucky lodge]

well dusty we dont no vet could not get in to have a good look so vet has taken bloods to see if she is in foal

wont get the results maybe till friday ....she also said a change in feed can make there udders change and i have change

her feed...told the vet what i was feeding and she said iam feeding them way to much...LOL LOL

:No-Sad

 

[Eagle]

What and how much are you feeding them ?

 

[lucky lodge]

What and how much are you feeding them ?

:salute

2 cups of horse and weanling pellets

2 cups of stud master pellets

carrots,2ltr ice cream container of chaff

and hay,, calucuim and vitiamans

 

[Eagle]

Do you know how much it weighs? and how much the horses weigh?

 

[lucky lodge]

i dont no how much it weighs but dusty weighed 135kg a the vet

 

[Eagle]

Do you have a scale in the kitchen that you could use at feed time to weigh their food?

 

[lucky lodge]

Do you have a scale in the kitchen that you could use at feed time to weigh their food?

i do have scales but it needs batteries

 

[Eagle]

 

[Wings]

I always weigh my feeds and then work out how many scoops and such that will equal. But I'm a bit obssessive with my feeding

First thing I cut back on is chaff, if there is enough grass and roughage (eg hay) in the diet it's the easiest bulk to cut without losing too much of the good stuff.

Is there a reason you are using two types of feed? Whenever possible I try to stick to one main feed and one main supplement per horse. Keeps things simple

 

[Eagle]

Yes, I agree

 

[cassie]

haha I learnt my lesson off Anna LOL I like you was feeding my girls to much hehe, woops...

now both girls (well suzie gets a little more as she has a baby to feed hehe)

a1/4 scoop of lucerne, 1/4 scoop oaten chaff and one scoop mitavite breeda...

Penny gets 1/2 biscuit hay once a day... and Suzie gets half a buscuit of lucerne hay and half a scoop of oaten hay at night, and a little flake of lucerne in the morning...

lol I hope this is ok Anna LOL

how much grass are they on? if any??

 

[AnnaC]

Cassie, if Suzie looks as good as she did in her pics last week, then you are doing fine!!

I would still get rid of that chaff - to dangerous for foals if they start digging into Momma's food, plus I have no idea how much your 'half biscuit' of hay actually weighs, but wouldn't think it nearly enough to keep Suzie's system ticking over all night?? Plus little Finn must be helping himself by now!

Jenny, I agree with Bree - ditch the chaff! Once she foals you do not want anything in her feed bowl that might cause a problem to the foal (choke etc), which is why we change all our mares on to a very small balancer pellet or a mare and foal feed that is small pellets/or will disolve on contact with water (saliva). Of course my girls are on heavily grassed paddocks all day, but they still get hay ad lib throughout the night - how much hay are you feeding as from your pics, you dont have a lot of grass available?

Not sure why you are feeding a mare and WEANLING feed - or do you mean "foal"? If your stud feed is made up of fairly small pellets and they disolve easily, then I would get rid of your other feeds and just use them and plenty of hay (plus your extra vitamins as you are not feeding enough of the stud feed to provide all these).

I dont agree with your vet when she says you are feeding way to much - yes maybe, if you had access to really good grass all day! But as I said, keep the supply of hay going and perhaps up your mare (stud) feed to 4 cups per day (getting rid of the other food) or find a good mare and foal food and give 4 cups of that. Again, as Bree said - keep it simple!!

Hoping those results come back positive.

ps. Have I spelt disolve correctly? It doesn't look right and my brain just wont work this morning! LOL!!

 

[AnnaC]

LOL!! Diane - dissolve looks just as 'wrong' as disolve to me!

Why do I keep having these mental blocks regarding spelling - I used to be such a good speller (not much good at anything else, but I COULD spell) Grrrrrrrrr dont get old folks!