Update/New pictures 5/5of Star......Meet Star!

[patandchickens]

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If you cannot read the tattoo and can't get her registered name or number from previous owners, you are totally S.O.L.

If you can get an accurate correct tattoo # or registered name on her, then you still cannot get her actual papers but you can find out her pedigree and race history if you like, fee depending on how mcuh info you want; you would need to get in touch with the Jockey Club, they have a website you can google for this kind of thing. (But only if you have one or the other of those pieces of info -- without either a correct name or correct number, you can't pursue it)

I have a question about beet pulp. Does it HAVE to be soaked before giving it?

Agree with above posters. You can often get away with feeding it dry, and some university studies have "shown" that it does not cause any mroe chokes that way, but that does not necessarily agree with everyone's real-world experience and IMHO if it is *possible* to soak it -- and it virtually always is! -- then that is safer. It does depend a bit on how much you're feeding, too, and how greedy the horse is etc.

I am with WC, please don't feed them both all their hay right together there at the shed. They may be getting along fine so far but it is just asking for trouble the day that someone wakes up with a chip on her shoulder.

I hope that now that you have a second horse there, and a TB to boot, that you put up at least one strand of electric (although I don't see any)? And are going to get rid of the barbwire ASAP? That is thousands of dollars worth of vet bill, possibly including euthanasia, just WAITING to happen.

Good luck, have fun,

Pat​

 

[arabianequine]

@ pat we are gonna be working on the fencing real soon. The owner of Star has a charger but not sure if it is big enough charger for the big horse area.

In all fairness I know accidents happen but this TB is pretty docile.

There was attitude from the horses this am maybe because of the long stretch overnight?....so I did give grain separately but hay together. It is in a feeder and they eat a bit away from each other like on opposite sides. They follow and eat with each all over the pasture side by side/front and back.


As far as the tatoo on inside of her lip....the owner said it is not that he can't read it the horse won't hold still to read it. Probably does not like its lip pulled back/up. When vet comes out.....see if he can do it might have to give her a calming agent to do that?

 

[chickbea]

Do you live near a racetrack or a TB farm? The professional horse identifiers can read any tat. Getting them to come over to your house and do it may be difficult, however.

 

[jettgirl24]

Definitely soak the beet pulp... I feed my older guy beet pulp at every feeding and it's super easy - each night I make enough for the next day. It soaks overnight and is ready to go the following day - 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 at night. The only time this doesn't work is when it's REALLY cold or REALLY hot (neither happens very often in my area). During our occasional cold snaps I make it in the house so it doesn't freeze. It does go bad pretty quickly when it gets really hot out so I usually make it twice a day during that time of year. It's less of a pain than it sounds - takes maaaaaybe 45 seconds.

 

[GalloFino]

One person pulls the lip up while the other takes a picture (quick!) of the tat, then you read the tat from the pic.

 

[arabianequine]

How much beet pulp per horse once soaked?

I soaked a 3 qt scoop full.

 

[welsummerchicks]

Measure it dry by weight and calculate it as part of the weight of the total ration. There is beet pulp shreds and beet pulp pellets, they weigh different per volume.

Most horses would get a pound or two of beet pulp, but it really depends on what the rest of the ration is.

 

[arabianequine]

It is pellets and the two horses I have are eating a bale a day. About 100 pound bales. I have been giving them concentrates but only have the beet pulp left for now. The TB in my opinion needs it.

Does it normally look like ma-gets after soaked and I moved it around. It looks like wheat or bran or something really cause the pieces are not moving.

 

[Kelly G]

I feed both my Fjords beet pulp....I LOVE it - great way to get plenty of fiber in them!

I always soak. Even though I've been told the shredded pulp can be fed without soaking, it's just not worth the risk that might be all in my head. But it's so no big deal to soak it!

Pellets - I would always soak them, for sure!!

Good luck! And I bet her coat will recover in no time at all - this is the perfect time (spring shedding). Give her some healthy groceries, and she'll gloss right up!

 

[arabianequine]

Still confused on how much to give once soaked. I soaked 3 quart scoop so I gave the 2 horses about half that this am....it looks gross.