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Posted by equestqh
on 7/2/2009, 10:14 am, in reply to "The Reality of Living with HYPP ???"
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HYPP HH or HYPP NH?
If HH, put it down. That's the best advice I can offer.
If NH (negative/positive) - it can be managed. UC Davis has a great flyer on the "do's and don't's." Basically, very little and preferably no alfalfa hay. Lots of exercise. The mare I have who is HYPP NH is fed Stable Mix pellets in the morning with a flake of teff hay. At night she gets a flake of 4-way forage (oat, wheat, barley, rye) hay and some rice bran and Stable Mix pellets. She is also out with 4 other senior horses so can move around at her will. Sometimes when she feels like it, she will eat beet pulp but it is not a favorite of hers.
Symptoms of an "attack" would muscle twinging pretty much across the whole body. Many NH horses are asymptomatic (as is the one I have) and others are very symptomatic (as her late granddaughter was - no I did not breed her). This mare's daughter (again, did not breed her) was asymptomatic while I had her but died shortly after I sold her (yes, the people who bought her had known her as a foal and were quite aware of her situation). So I don't know if they did anything feed or exercise-wise that may have contributed to her early demise --- or if just twisted a gut (as the above-filly did). I also wonder if these horses are more susseptical to twisted guts ...
All in all, exercise, not being locked in a stall and managing the diet are keys with this disorder.
No, I am not smarter than a 5th grader, but occasionally I am smarter than a 1st grader.
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