Friday we rescued 3 starving horses. After watching them for 3 days we have noticed that the oldest mare, 21 and a Samtyr daughter, is not eating. She stands over her hay and makes noises of pure ecstasy but just noses the hay around, so we put her on a beet pulp mash, which she gobbled up. What should we feed her? Beet pulp isn't good for her only food, is it? We have a pasture of really good grass to put them in but were afraid to put them in it right from the start so we have them in about an acre which has very little grass in it for now and they really seem to want the hay more than grass, what's with that? We have also noticed the 10 year old seems very weak in the rear end and almost falls sometimes. One year ago these horses were probably 100 lb. overweight and now I'd guess they are 200 underweight. I was for putting the old mare down but she seems so smart and seems to have a will to live that I'm now willing to give her a chance. I'm also concerned about finding homes for the younger two in the future. Can they come back from this kind of starvation and regain their muscle tone? We are getting a horse anatomy lesson from observing their starvation and what it does to their backbones. Linda
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