Feeding laminitic horse in work

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Okay, can really use some help here. My mare was diagnosed with lami back in beginning of June. She had all the necessary time off, etc. She has dropped about 40kg according to wt tape. She's now back to work and we do very low level dressage. However, my instructor now feels she's losing condition and perhaps a bit of muscle wastage. Her current feeding regime is this:

10kg hay split in two nets for am and pm

Bucket feed is also split but total qty:

3 large scoops of happy hoof
speedi-beet (about 3/4 lg sc) -- when I can get her to eat with it in her feed. She's been leaving it with speedi beet in there, but eats chaff happily without speedibeet.
supps: Formula 4 Feet, garlic, salt, linseed oil, seaweed

She gets grazing for 1 hour on long grass that's well past sugar stage (ie knee high).

On weight tape she's 506kg, she stands 15.1hh and is not your traditional welsh cob, more of a sport type. Some of her topline does seem to be going away.

She is in light work: hacked maybe 1-2x a week weather/schedule/show depending. She's schooled 4x a week for 60-90 min and her off days she's lunged for maybe 20 minutes.

She used to be on Topspec Comp balancer and she looked fab on that. I stopped using it when she was diagnosed with laminitis, but am wondering if maybe I should re-introduce it? Also, any suggestions for her feeding would be most welcome.

Thanks!

(CROSS POSTING TO NL AS WELL)
 
My Welsh D x TB is recovering from Trauma Induced Lami and she is on Baileys Lo-Cal and Hi-fi lite, with garlic, she is looking fab, she did drop condition when she was on box rest, but to be honest she looks good for it, another that is more Sport Horse, than Cob...........
 
My lami pony is on a scoop Happy Hoof and soaked hay. He is 13.3hh and approx 368kg on the weightape. I can see his ribs and to alot of people he'll probably look underweight for the ideal but tough. He is lami free and healthy...I don't care if he doesn't 'look' right.
I'd say if your horse is fit and healthy I wouldn't worry
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Try Top Spec anti lam - my lamintic Tb was on that and he looked great. Do you soak her hay? If you soak for 24 hours you can feed pretty much ad lib, whcih will help her general condition although it doesn't contain much in the way of nutrients.
 
Hi there
Thanks for your responses. I don't soak the hay, our hay is treated with an agent that keeps dust/mould from forming on it, and when it's soak becomes unpalatable (most of the horses on our yard that were getting it steamed/soaked wouldn't eat it).

My concern is that if *my* instructor is saying that she looks too thin/loss of condition, then it's really a concern as my RI is an eventer, and often prefers them on the thinner side. I don't mind her being on the thinner side fat wise, but certainly want her to losing muscle. :-/
 
My lami pony was diagnosed 2 years ago thats why we got her! She hunts once a week (in winter) and ridden daily only gets hay to eat and looks fab on it! If they are prone to lami then on the thin side is better! Work will bring the topline back!
 
Would second the Top Spec Anti-Lam. Feed Merchant should be able to advise you too or why not ring the Top Spec people, they should be able to give you excellent advice I would have thought.
 
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