This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another idea to consider...
Does the salt or mineral blend you feed as a free-choice supplement have molasses or any other sweetener in it? If so, replace it ASAP with a totally unsweetened salt & mineral supplement and see if that helps. Two of my horses will overeat any type of sweetened salt/mineral blend if it's offered free choice. They get really runny from the excess salt they're ingesting. When it finally dawned on me what was going on, I replaced the sweet mineral with an unsweetened mineral blend and the loose stools stopped overnight. The local feed guy argued with me that if the horses ate a lot of a mineral supplement, "they must need it." I told him that if the mineral was UNSWEETENED, I might agree, but giving free-choice sweetened mineral to my crew was like giving a kid free run of a candy store. DeeAnna
