southernmother
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So this friend of mine - who by the way does not and has never owned a single horse - told me yesterday that I am not suposed to feed my mini sweet feed. She said you're not suposed to give it to ANY horses, that it's for cattle. Um ok .... then why do they make it for horses??? So I asked her why and she said she doesn't know, but she just knows it's really bad for them and can make them get colic really bad??
So I'm concerned because my mini will only eat sweet feed. We're feeding her Dumor Pleasure Horse Plus 14% sweet feed. I'm gradually trying to get her on Platform Mini, but she won't touch the stuff unless I toss in a couple handfulls of sweet feed, and even the she just nibbles at it and I end up throwing it out because it sits there and gets icky after a couple of days. And the only reason I'm trying to switch her is because my husband thinks it seems like a really good feed. Personally I see no reason why she can't just stay on the sweet feed, we have very good hay. And she likes the sweet feed and will eat it all up and wants more LOL then again who wouldn't the stuff smells devine LOL, my 2 dogs even like the sweet feed
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So anyway, why can't I just continue to feed her the 14% sweet feed? Katie (my know it all friend - says if I keep feeding it to her she's gonna end up dead ... sounds a little dramatic to me, so I thought I'd better ask, since this is my first horse.
So I'm concerned because my mini will only eat sweet feed. We're feeding her Dumor Pleasure Horse Plus 14% sweet feed. I'm gradually trying to get her on Platform Mini, but she won't touch the stuff unless I toss in a couple handfulls of sweet feed, and even the she just nibbles at it and I end up throwing it out because it sits there and gets icky after a couple of days. And the only reason I'm trying to switch her is because my husband thinks it seems like a really good feed. Personally I see no reason why she can't just stay on the sweet feed, we have very good hay. And she likes the sweet feed and will eat it all up and wants more LOL then again who wouldn't the stuff smells devine LOL, my 2 dogs even like the sweet feed

So anyway, why can't I just continue to feed her the 14% sweet feed? Katie (my know it all friend - says if I keep feeding it to her she's gonna end up dead ... sounds a little dramatic to me, so I thought I'd better ask, since this is my first horse.