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Welcome, Noah! I'm in California too! Minis are the greatest. I've had several full sized horses over the years but I think I have more fun with my minis than I did with them! I currently have 4 ...all of them drive. They are such characters! I hope your dream of having some minis comes true...

UPDATE: I started giving him some alfalfa/teff cubes and lowered the amount of Zero fed. He is wearing a grazing muzzle and I'm feeding on swept mats....also giving him more turnout time with his muzzle and so far he seems to be doing better!

The only place who carries it here is Tractor Supply and they are terrible at keeping things in stock so I hesitate to go solely into something that may not be in ready supply. I'm going to go ahead and give him some soaked alfalfa/teff cubes along with the Zero. Zero is so low in starch, a...

I might have to revisit triple crown. When I was looking for a balancer and complete feed, my guy wouldn’t touch any of their products. It was really frustrating!

I gave him a few soaked alfalfa/teff cubes this morning and reduced his zero by a bit to compensate. The zero is SOOOO low in starch I think using a few cubes that might be a little higher should still be overall well below the recommended level for a cushings horse (at least I hope so)...

Right? my other minis are no trouble at all but this guy has been a handful to take care of. Never a dull moment with this one! He's super sweet though. :)

When we first started battling the cushings/laminitis flare early this year, I tried beet pulp and he wouldn't touch it...he went off feed completely when I tried to add even a little bit to his normal ration. He's picky too. sigh....

Zero is a complete feed and, although it is best utilized in conjunction with forage, I was told it can be fed alone. My little guy quids and can’t/wont eat long stem hay. He does okay with soaked cubes. I was feeding alfalfa/teff cubes but that is when he got laminitic so was told to get him...

lol!!!! do they actually play with them? I have a bunch of new dog toys!

lol. Which C word? We’ve got cushings and colic. 😬😭

He’s eating Hygain Zero along with a cushings supplement (cushings-S from balancedeco solutions) and an immune builder supplement every 3 days. Vet and farrier are very happy with his progress (we almost lost him due to severe laminitis in march). I give him a handful of orchard grass...

Good point. He’s also cushings and on a restricted diet due to recent laminitis. Lots of issues w this guy. 😒😢

He's 21 and has always been one of the more sensitive/problematic minis. I've only had him since January and since then we've discovered the cushings (prior owner had no clue but I noticed he acted a bit different than any other mini's I've had and was drinking alot so had him tested), we had a...

hahaha...I asked the vet the same question. He said there are mixed studies on whether or not it really does anything. He thought in mild cases it probably does some good as a maintenance thing but some horses just ingest and build up sand. In theory it sounds good, right?

He's 32" and just under 200 lbs and 2# feed really isn't much but his weight is good and we finally got his laminitis and cushings in check so I don't really want to feed him more. I feel very badly for feeding him just twice a day. I try to give him a handful of hay in the early afternoon for...

Vet tubed him and gave him banamine...he's doing much better. thanks!

Yes, all of mine get a flavored psyllium pellet supplement monthly as well. Vet said some just build it up more in their gut than others. He's colicked before so maybe he's just one of them. :-(. He's on an immune builder supplement w/ prebiotics as well twice daily.

I'll see how they fit when they get here. They are so fluffy right now, I would think they could actually get the muzzle off if they got caught up....just hoping they don't figure out how to do it on purpose. This is a good time to try it though when the pastures have nothing but rained on...

He's a tough case b/c he's a quidder and has Cushings so can't have alot of things (including much long stem anything)...we finally got him sorted out on a pelleted feed but it's only 1 lb per feeding and it's gone in a flash - he has a portagrazer on stall mats so it's not his feed that he's...

😭. Sand colic. We just put new flooring in the barn and one of my guys is such a little hoover. In an earlier post I mentioned that he's been eating his manure...he must be picking up sand/gravel with it. Vet came out, tubed him and recommended more stall mats or grazing muzzles. Just ordered an...