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At 00:53:29 on 03.02.10, blindhorsedancer wrote: I do something called SANDING my horses when it looks like they need it. This is the name used to remove sand, dirt, and things that are sitting at the bottom of the stomach and have not been sent to the intestines to be digested. Undigested things can be plants other than grass and even sometimes VERY small pieces of metal that may have gotten in the grain during processing. If you are not doing this with your horse, you may want to start. I knew a horse that got a small piece of metal caught in the bottom of it's stomach and it caused all kinds of problems and it almost died. The piece of metal collected all kinds of things around it and also started to rust. There are a number of good products on the market that can be used to capture and move these objects out of the stomach. A brand mash does not work because it does not drop into the very bottom of the stomach leaving things. Some of these products can get pretty costly if you own more than one horse. It is not the product you use that is important but the amount. For older horses the amount is greater. Because of the number of horses that I have to sand I have to try and keep my cost down and have used a product for a number of years that works and is recommended by my vet. That product is a Wal-mart product under there Equate label called FIBER THERAPY. I buy the sugar free orange flavor one and feed about two ounces twice a day in the Thoroughbreds food, a little less in the Arabians. I do this for three days and it works. I buy three of the larger containers. The horses eat it without any trouble and they all have orange colored muzzles when they finish eating. The Fiber Therapy also makes the horse drink more. It also drops into the very bottom of the stomach and acts like a scrub brush taking everything to the bowels and out in the manure. It is funny to see the faces of some of the check out clerks when they see the three containers. I laugh and then explain what it is for. It is even more funny when I buy preparation H at the same time for using on the horses coronet band to help with hoof growth. Once in a while the check out clerk knows who all the Fiber Therapy is for. So if you have a number of horses that need SANDING try it because it can save you up to half as much as other products. I have seen a number of horses that almost died because of the amount of sand, dirt or whatever in their stomachs. I do the sanding when I see the horses stomach looking a little swollen or certain parts of the year about ever six weeks. With older horses you might have to sand it more often especially if the horse has lost some of it's teeth.
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At 19:36:32 on 05.02.10, vesophie wrote: thats a great idea and i'll try it on my young fell as he has a bloated belly and thought it was worms but we have wormed him an it hasnt changed so will give it a go many thanks for the advice
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At 21:30:34 on 05.02.10, blindhorsedancer wrote: If you have wormed him, then more than likely he has something in his stomach that needs to be cleaned out. It does not matter if a horse is on the nicest pasture in the world, he can get sand or dirt in it's stomach. The horse pulls hard on grass when they are eating it and can pull it up by the roots. We all know that the roots have dirt in them. I have seen horses almost die because their stomachs got full of sand, dirt, or something and the owner did not know to give it something to clear it out. Let me know what happens. Try it for 3 days in your horse's food twice a day, about two ounce each time. The manure may get a little runny, that means that it is working. TAKE CARE
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At 22:01:21 on 24.02.10, Cailinn wrote: can i ask what sort of thing fibre therapy is. i am from scotland and we dont have wal-marts. but i would like to try and find the scottish equivilant to fibre therapy.
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