This message is from: jen frame [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HI,
I buy my Psyllium from Horsetech.com they have very high quality and
very low prices and they have free shipping .
Actually, I think the cost may be a tiny bit higher than Su-Per
Psyllium that you can order from KVVET.com
but the Horsetech psyllium also has some flax mixed in it which adds
to the mucilagenous qualities (i.e. the intestinal sweeping
abilities).
Jen
On 4/30/08, Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This message is from: Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robin wrote... What kind of powdered psyllium do you buy? I have never
seen it in powder except like metamucil. Also why the senior feed as opposed
to some other feed?
Hi Robin,
O.H.Kruse manufacutres the 20 lb (5 gal bucket). I get it at the feed stores
in Norco, CA. The bucket actually reads: Kruse's Perfection Brand - Natural
Psyllium Fiber - in powdered form. It kinda looks like Metamucil.
Re: mixing it with senior feed... that's just what the surgeons recommended
because senior feed is a bit moist to begin with and with a drizzle of oil,
the psyllium sticks to it pretty well. But they said any bagged feed was ok.
It's ok to mix it with more than 1/2 cup if that helps your horse to eat it.
They were adamaent that it cannot get wet with water, just oil, before it's
eaten. If you don't get the psyllium to stick to some kind of feed, the
horse exhales and it's just dust in their face and up their nose.
see ya,
Sharon
Sand colic routine
Hi,
I live in Southern California and the surgeons at the Chino Valley
Equine Hospital here recommend the following:
For 7 consecutive days each month, give 1 cup psyllium mixed well with
@1/2 cup senior feed and drizzled with @ 2 teaspoons of canola, corn
oil. Feed morning and night for the 7 days. It can also be mixed with
other supplements as long as there is no contact with water before
feeding. The psyllium must not contact water before eaten because it
must swell up in the digestive tract to 'sweep' the digestive tract. (
I mix the 14 servings up at once, sealing each of the 14 servings in a
gallon ziplock. Then I just pour it into her bucket and give it at the
same time with breakfast and dinner hay.)
Use the cheapest powdered psyllium available. No pelleted form. They
said it doesn't work. These surgeons do 2-3 colic surgeries daily
(impaction, stones, or sand colics) on all kinds of horses (backyard
to $100K horses).
14 cups of psyllium is 3 lbs. I buy a 20 lb bucket, for @$60 and it
lasts 6 months.
good luck,
Sharon
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