Protein lumps

[taffydales]

I have checked Merls all over today and realised what these bare patches are and could honestly kick myself for not spotting it sooner, but I have seen this before on Sam my grey cob, I,m pretty sure that Merls is overheating he has been on Haylage and I think its too much for him, I,m sure someone else on here had the same problem, his hard feed is the same the only thing I have changed over the last few weeks is the fact they are all on haylage instead of hay, I have found loads of these lumps and they have scabbed up in a few places mainly on his neck I think they are called protein lumps, all the others seem fine, but I,m sure thats what it is.

[greydales]

Dancer gets lumps on him when he comes onto new spring grass and they stay on him all summer until he changes his coat. I have no idea what causes it but I assume it is to do with something he is eating - very strange that they go away when he gets his winter coat but then I suppose the grass will be changing it's composition? Although this year I'm not so sure!

[taffydales]

spoke to my vet Gill, and a very knowledgeable feed merchant who says its probably due to the haylage but also asked me if I,m feeding a mix with barley in as this can cause protein lumps, so I checked my pasture mix and it does contain barley, so gues who will be back on spillers high fibre cubes.

[admin]

Tilly got these in reaction to feed - but it was a medium energy hard feed she was getting - with acres of barley in it.

In the end I gave up feeding mixes/cubes and went with straights -good old fashioned naked oats.

Olivia

[Daftmare]

barley did that to Henessey and Amber's legs blow up if I feed it to her. There are a lot of barley free feeds out now though. Baileys no4 is barley free as is calm and condition and baileys economy cubes are barley free too.