Thank you all for your advice, it seems like the joint injections have benefited your horse's which has made me reconsider getting them for my mare.
I have read that in the long term steriod injections can deteriorate the health of the joint so I was wary of going ahead with it.
At the end...
Hi,
My mare, now 25 years of age, has been increasingly loosing her range of movement in her right hind leg over this past year.
It is a lot worse than her left hind which the vet says is suggestive of an injury. The range of movement particularly the lifting action is now limited to the...
Hi,
My mare, now 25 years of age, has been increasingly loosing her range of movement in her right hind leg over this past year.
It is a lot worse than her left hind which the vet says is suggestive of an injury. The range of movement particularly the lifting action is now limited to the...
There is a reason I am part of the 'low starch brigade' as you so put it and that is because my horse is prone to azoturia and is on a similar workload to Kat's horse so requires a low starch diet and I am talking from what has worked for me which I thought was the whole point of forums!
Oats...
Hi there, I would suggest you stick to what you are currently feeding and make a few adjustments. As previously suggested try changing to HiFi oil this way your providing calories in the form of fibre and oil which are slow releasing energy sources so wont make your horse fizz up! I would carry...