What is best high-quality low starch/low sugar feed for a horse with compensatory insulin resistance?
If your horse has an type of insulin-resistance/blood sugar issues, please also tell me what and how much you’re feeding him/her all the way around, including supplements, turn-out and grazing, etc.?
Include horse height, age, and current weight, if you could.
Most appreciated!
Many thanks again, Azeri!
I don’t thumbs down! Trolls
In my opinion, the best high quality low starch and sugar feed is the new WellSolve L/S (L/S meaning low starch) by Purina. It has been researched for I think 8 years now. It GUARANTEES the starch and sugars to be less then 11%. NO OTHER feed guarantees their starches and sugars. Sure they say they are low starch or even safe starch but you can not find any guarentieed analysis of that on the bag.
It contains no grains and no molasses. Digestible/ fermentable fibers are used as an alternative energy source instead of carbohydrates. The vitamins and minerals that are added to this feed are formulated for the special needs horses. There is also added biotin as well. The feed is designed to meet the nutritional requirements of a special needs horse (with forage being fed too.) so that you don’t need to supplement. The only supplement that is not added to the feed is a joint supplement. Its extremely expensive to put it in a feed and if not feed properly (according to weight) it wont do anything or you will be overdosing your horse with too much. The feed is highly palatable too.
When fed properly to a horse, this feed showed no spikes in the insulin and glucose response. For the insulin and glucose response in the horse, its as if they did not even eat anything. They even researched what feed form gave the lowest response too. The pellet form its in now is what gave the least amount of change. While a horse was eating they took blood every hour to monitor how it was affecting the horse. Thousands of vials of blood were drawn to research how it affected the horse.
Just remember this is NOT a perscription diet so it should be available at your local feed store as long as they are certified to carry it. The feed will not cure your horse, it will provide balanced nutrition for a horse with specail needs. Its also ideal for horses with laminitis and cushings.
You can check out the full research on it here:
http://www.wellsolveequine.com/
For forage you will still want to feed 1-1.5% of the horses body weight. The back of the bag has a table that reccomends the amount of feed to be fed and you adjust accordingly depending on how much roughage youre feeding your horse.
As for supplements, like mentioned you dont need any since they are already in the feed. Adding more and you may risk a toxic level in your horse. The only one you could add safetly is a joint support.
Definatly discuss any diet changes with your vet for any horse.
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