All still well mid month. Trimmed small pony today for the first time in weeks. He is always the one with no foot problems and no diet restirction (we do have sweet itch though !!) His feet are brilliant and I only needed to redo the roll and round off the quarters as his toes had become square. He is one tough little cookie at only 36" high !!
LGL pony still 100 percent and very happy. Trying to find a feed lower in sugar and starch than Hi Fi Lite to swap her onto so we can get a wider margin with the growh of the Spring grass soon-ish !! Anyone any ideas - its only to mix her additives into. See my Fast Fibre post !
I found on this Forum that Dengie do Alfa pellets - they contain no molasses / no nothing.
You just need to soak them like speedi beet for ~ 30 min. Fab to add min & vitamins / linseed etc...
All boringly good round here - new bedding (like aquamax wood pellets but MUCH cheaper - see blog!) is a godsend to us not able to use pea gravel. It turns from pellets to very fine sawdust that when damp packs in their feet to form a perfect, slightly drying dirt plug, that seems to stay in on turnout in the bog.
Their feet look the best they EVER have in the winter! Dan's concavity has gone through the roof and everyone stomped around on the frozen stuff like it was a feather mattress. Even the old boy hasn't noticed the hard ground or the bog.
Even Max with his shocking feet is doing well - having splurged out abscesses in both front feet, he is now running around unstoppable! _________________ http://magicsownlittleworld.blogspot.com/
I use Dengie alfalfa pellets which are great as no suger and low starch but if I feed too much my girl gets a bit too lively.
Having said that she gets up to 2 kg per day along with 2kg (dry weight) unmolassed sugarbeet when she is off grass in the summer and she is fine on this.
She does tend to get a bit too thin in the summer months and won't eat more than 6 leafs of hay per day. This is a lot of food for a 14.1hh but it only just keeps her at a moderate weight. She is not a do-gooder execpt when she is on free grass, which of course she can't have in the summer.
Jane, fascinating about your wood pellets - I've only come across them as fuel before
I did a crude version in one of our yards, borrowed a neighbours industrial size chipper and literally stuffed 3 fir trees into it (!) to produce rough wood chips. Probably not quite as good as your pellets and is now starting to pack down, but is brilliantly antiseptic and doesn't shift even in gale force winds.
Actually I love my pea gravel, and will probably stick with it as I am too lazy to shovel up wood chunks once they are rotted down I tried the fir trees because I can never resist trying something new, but pea gravel is for life, not just for a fw months
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I tried the fir trees because I can never resist trying something new, but pea gravel is for life, not just for a fw months