Something I never tried, so did not know..

[ironglow]

  My cousin posted on FB, how her husband's favorite horse is now in Jeopardy...  perhaps a timely warning;

   " ase. Please. Please.
Do NOT feed horses bags of lawn clippings. Chula, my hubby's heart horse, is fighting for her life at MT Equine Vet. from someone trying to "treat" our horses without asking us.
Update: she is spending 24 hours at MT Equine. It doesn't look good but we are still hoping for the best. Her lactate is over 7, normal is 2. They flushed 33 liters out nasally of broken up grass clippings.
Final Update: The Vet called this morning at 5 am. Chula's lactate was 14, she had not had any urine or feces out despite 12 hours of fluids and meds. She felt it was time to put her down. We are devastated. She was the first present I bought my hubby. She was a hubby horse, a lesson horse, an amazing SAR horse, and part of the family.
I'm attaching a few pictures of her this fall with my hubby, her true love, doing their favorite thing, Equine Scent Detection, so everyone can see her when she shined.
I'll try to answer a few questions on here so they go to everyone.
We didn't choose surgery option because the only surgery center with an opening was too far away and she would probably have gone down in the trailer.
The vets and their staff worked on her the entire night.
There are multiple reasons grass clippings are dangerous, if the immediate killers (choke, impaction and colic) don't take out your horse, you are still battling the possibility of founder, laminitis, any chemicals the grass is treated with, etc. Here is a good article that reviews it better then I can right now.
https://ker.com/equinews/lawn-clippings-horses/....
Oh that sucks ,did you already put him down ? I was going to light a healing candle for him. Who in the world fed him grass .I'm super sorry Patty😥🐎

[Dee]

Bailed alfalfa in quantity can also colic a horse. I fed only coastal Bermuda.

[Ranger99]

Most of the horses in this area
with problems are from people
that lose interest after the first
year of ownership and leave them
on their own, and they get barn
sour and in ill health and have to
be put down, that is if they don't
up and die on their own

[ironglow]

I recall as a kid, that frozen alfalfa can be bad news for an equine.  We once lost a donkey to frozen alfalfa..  I was awfully young then, but it seems when a horse eats frozen alfalfa, the symptoms are much like being foundered.