...Pepper came to me at the end of September. This Gelderlander, standing at 16.3hh weighed only 490kg.
When he came off the lorry
he found it hard to walk in a straight line or even hold himself up properly. He had
apparently been having colic most days and the first two days with me he constantly kicked
his belly. He had terrible gut sounds that took several weeks to calm down and
eventually go.
I started
him on 4 feeds a day that had to be hand fed to him as he wasn't interested in eating at
that point. Over the first few weeks I built up his feed to 4kgs of Alfalfa +
Oatinol, 600gms of Equilibra, 1kg of Fibregest plus Immune Aid, with enough water added to
make his feed almost like soup. He also had non-stop haylage. After 10 days he
had put on 21kgs and I introduced Tiger Oats at three weeks an by this time he was ready
to start some light work.
Weighed
again at 3 1/2 months and he has put on 70kgs and weighs 560kg. He now looks like a
different horse and the weight is still going on. At 5 months he now weighs 575kgs!
Thank you so
much for having the products to help me save this wonderful horse.
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