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Juliet is an apendix QH, has a bit of a hay belly, and sunk inon her back hips... It could just be her age, but I can keep her healthy and happy. I specialize in elder equine care, plus equine nutrition in general. Juliets teeth are all but rotten out, so she gets a warm mash of beat pulp, Alfalfa pellets, and wheat bran, with two cups of LMF senior sweet feed. Usually I prefer to not feed sweet feed as there is little nutritional value in corn, and all the sugars... Straight oats are much better than sweet feed.
I have an 11 year old dog as well. She's my first "kid" and she's rolly polly... I call her my uniboob.
She is on a diet, but just doesn't lose any weight... But she isn't gaining iether... So...
She's happy healthy, and still moves around, plays with the younger dogs, and kicks butt doing so! lol
Ouch QH she is a bit thin
Yes most likely its age poor thing. sounds like she will be getting spoiled just right!
I only asked cuz most appaloosas are way over fed in general even by many people who deal with them a lot. My first horse was a salt/pepper blanket with black spots on the blanket. He was a Indian res horse (means most likely from old mustang stock way back when) and I was taught how to care for him and the other 2 girls (black w/snowflakes and a salt/red roan blanket) I got from res by a old horse guy on the res. This was a long time ago when appy's were not real common here. I never could figure out why everyone thought my horses were thin until I got a couple TB's and found out that what was fit and healthy for a appy was skinny for the TB.
BTW none of anything i said was directed in any way... its something thats kind of a pet peeve for me so I always ask breed before I say skinny/fat about a animal.
I have to correct myself. Both mares are Warmbloods. So she is still thin, and misty is on the lean side...
I unsderstood why you were asking the breed. I had an older Appy here with me over the summer. He came here fat with a major sway back, and left fit with less of a sway...
