draft horse weight loss problem?
My draft cross mare has started to drop a lot of weight. We upped her feed quite a bit over the last 3 weeks and her hay too and did an extra wormer too but still shes dropping weight. I put her in a nice blanket in case she was shivering the weight off but thats not working either. She gets rode about an hour 2x a week like ususal but of course she doesnt have the energy like she used too.
So any ideas why and how to get her to recover those pounds? Every week I can see more loss instead of gain. I’m worried.
The first places to look are teeth and worms, and fix either that needs fixing. Next, you could have a vet do bloodwork to see if anything is going on. I did this with my old pony who was losing weight, and the vet found nothing specific, but did find an elevated white blood cell count, indicative of some kind of infection, so we put him on some antibiotics.
Once you work out what might be the cause, you can experiment with her feed. Switching to senior feed made a huge difference with my pony. You can also try things like added corn oil, beet pulp, rice bran, etc.
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