I forgot, there are 4 places people are wanting the info we got back on that. Her alfalfa/orchard hay was above NSC(nonstructural carbs) @ well over 11%. This number is arrived at by combining the total of WSC(water soluble carbs or simple sugars ie fructans, some glucans, and pectin), and ESC (ethanol soluble carbs or a subset of WSC representing sugar fructans in feeds that directly influence blood sugar. Our just alfalfa measured at 9.3% total which is below the target 10%. The vitamin and mineral content is a long list, I haven't been able to yet get my scanner online, too much else going on, or I would scan and post it. Anyway her diet is to be as close to 31/2 lbs alfalfa, her % of Omegahorseshine (full of flax and antioxidents which is what pregnant and IR horses need), Karbo Combo immune booster (kept her from full blown founder), LMF super supplement (balancer) for alfalfa forage, and try to get her to eat alfalfa/timothy pellets and/or cubes soaked, beet pulp rinsed. She also has Timothy hay. I did have them at certain measurements for her weight, but as finicky as she has been I throw anything I can at her if she will eat it. She waffles on what she likes each meal. I just keep rotating. So she has a big variety, the only thing she can't have is, the grass hay they all eat which has fescue which started the problem, apples, carrots, and horse treats. I don't give any of them those since she could smell and hear that a mile away lol.
Last pregnancy she was just as finicky. But at that time I had just bought her bred, had never dealt with laminits, and so we had to quit hoof trims on her at 8 months along because she would go lame. I thought it was a hoof sensitivity during pregnancy like our Quarter Horses. Apparently she gets sensitive like gestational diabetes. Once she foals it goes away, but I have learned a lot and completely changed the *safe* diet I had them all on.
I forgot, I always fed her Safechoice which she loves, and it had too many ingredients that raise blood sugar. I was quite surprised so pulled all our horses off it. I feed them all LMF feeds now, I can't get ADM or Progressive anymore, but the LMF feeds are fabulous. Coincidentally that is what my vet fed her mare.
She has been restless and out-of-sorts lately at night. I wonder if the foal is making her uncomfortable also. She had problems peeing for awhile there until the foal shifted. I feed the others what she tosses, dunks, and spits on lol. They will eat anything. She is just having a heck of a time I think this pregnancy. I am also going to switch horses next to her to see if that makes a difference, Masq has been a bad boy and in the pen next to her and last night she seemed to be focusing on the adjoining wall. So I will see if that helps.
One other thing is that the other vet I had (Mr. Idiot) kept telling me she never needed floating. This vet looked and showed me a big point on her front top molar?, and now I can't get her floated until she foals and the foal is a month or two along. So that is a problem for my girl, and she is trying to refuse to eat any stems, and they are fine alfalfa stems, and any cubes. Of course the cubes have stems AWH!
