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Post by loopylou on Mar 12, 2008 17:34:15 GMT -1
How many of you feed your youngster limestone flour??? I have heard that it is great for growing babies and also bad reports. After your views, please.
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Post by echolady on Mar 13, 2008 11:04:10 GMT -1
i feed limestone flour, just a little to get the right phospherous:calcium intake. only a little though!
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Post by cadeby on Mar 13, 2008 15:58:58 GMT -1
We don't feed it, but only because we had a sad experience with a bought-in Percheron filly who went on to develop OCD as a four year old and had to be PTS. Our vet thought it could have been caused by an excess of limestone flour - her breeder had fed it to her from weaning until she was two years old by the "handful". It's a popular supplement in the heavy-horse world!
However, I'm sure it's safe if you know the calcium/phosphate balance and how much to give?
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Post by mrsp on Mar 14, 2008 20:03:22 GMT -1
It's all down to the dreaded calcium/phosphorus ratio.
Ideally you want to give a youngster 2;1 calcium to phosphorus, high cereal feeding is likely to result in 1;4 ratio and can you believe BRAN is likely to give a 1;11 ratio!!!!!!
So the seems to be feed your youngsters grass and good hay and let them grow at a normal rate and not at the super-sonic fast rate that you sometimes see in the show ring... not with dales I'm delighted to say!
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