Energy without weight for Lami prone - WWYD?

[JulesRules]

Apologies as I know similar questions have been asked on numerous occasions.

Any advise or suggestions would he helpful... Apologies for this being long but I wanted to get all the info in to save having to be asked lots of questions later..

My girl was very overweight when I got her 2 years ago. She is now much slimmer and looking a nice weight going into summer. She suffered from a bout of laminitis before I owned her but fingers crossed and touch wood she has been fine since she lost the weight. Needless to say I am still very careful with her.

During winter she is stabled overnight with a small haynet, and when she has finished that she starts on her straw bed (she also tries to eat other bedding even shavings so straw is safest for her). During winter she also has a small breakfast and dinner of hi-fi lite, Baileys lo-cal balancer and speedi beet.

She is now out 24/7 and is happy as Larry out with her mates. I'm on a livery yard where we rotate fields so for the first few weeks out on a new paddock she is muzzled or has a paddock within the field to restrict her.

They have been in her current field for about 2-3 weeks now and eaten it down, so whilst there is not masses of grass there is still fresh grass coming through, but she is not muzzled at present

I have stopped any extra feeds and her weight seems stable. She being worked roughly 5 days a week - a mixture of hacking, jumping and schooling.

However I have noticed a drop in her energy levels over the past couple of weeks. I took her up to the paddock to jump yesterday and she felt like she just couldn't be bothered which is a big change from a couple of weeks back when she was jumping 2ft over poles on the ground.

So WWYD?

Put her back on a small feed and monitor the weight?
Bring her in for a haynet before riding?

Any other suggestions?

Hopefully this is a short term problem as we are due to rotate to a new field in a couple of weeks then it will be back to the muzzle :-(

 

[touchstone]

I'd try a good vit/min supplement if you aren't already, if her diet is restricted then she may be lacking in something. You could just add the Lo cal back in.

It could also be that she is just full and a bit sluggish if she's been unmuzzled, so bringing in for a while might work.

 

[Sugar_and_Spice]

Either she has no energy because the grass isn't enough and so she needs a small normal feed or some hay daily until you change fields. Or she's being lazy for sine reason. Could be she's full up, a bit too hot to want to work in the lovely weather recently, or just more relaxed from being out 24/7. You could try a half cup (human tea mug) of competition mix, fed one hour before riding, to fizz her up a bit if she's being lazy.