Has anyone tried "Dengie" ? Its a plastic
bagged alfalfa (or timothy) forage with small amount of molasses added. http://www.lucernefarms.com/dengie.htm
It designed as a hay replacer/supplement.
I shoe at a TB barn where it is all
they feed (no grain to the non working horses, small amount to the track
horses), the horses are plump, nice coats, healthy, good growing hooves for
TBs.
It costs around $12 a bag per horse, each horse
eats 1/2 bag a day.
It looks/smells awesome, but look like too much
protein to me for our horses. ???
I've heard that horses can choke on them. I have soaked them for my older
horses who don't have the great teeth that the youngsters do. But they seem to
prefer them not soaked.
have a quick question for everybody.. When you guys feed alfalfa
cubes do you all soak them first or do you just give them dry. I always have
soaked them but I have heard a lot of people don't. Just curious.
Jen
We fed a pellet we got at Petsmart for a
couple years, with NO hay added. It was a Bermuda / alfalfa blend, made by
Sacate mills in Arizona. We got them in 80 pound bags, which were more
cost effective than the 50 pound bags. Horses really did well on them, and
I did not have any of the issues some folks have had with feeding pellets.
Some find the horses start bad stall habits from not having something to
munch on all day, and others feed the processed pelleted feeds are not as
good on the digestive tracts of the horses. BUT, you can find some grass
hay, to add with the pellets, to help with those issues if concerned.
Also, I had one horse prone to choke, and ate too fast. For him, I dumped
his pellets in the feeder, then dumped a same size bucket of water over
the pellets. It was like a bowl of cereal. He got water, as he ate the
pellets, and by the time he got to the bottom of the feeder, the pellets
had soaked up the last of the water. Not all horses do well with pellets,
but our 4 did for about 2 years. No waste, easy to feed. Oh, and I
personally preferred the pellets (about the size of your little finger)
over the cubes.
Good luck on your feed situation. I saw So.
CA was getting some rain. You sure need it, but as we always ask, must it
all come at once? Send some to Texas Catfish!!!
Jonni
"Slowee, slowee catchee monkey," Rudyard
Kipling, from The Jungle Book
