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My mare has raised digital pulses, though no lami stance and doesn't seem sore. Brought her in anyway onto a deep bed and soaked hay just in case. Going to start treating her as a laminitic anyway I think as she is over weight and did get footy while shod last year. I've taken her barefoot so this will be even more pronounced I suppose?

Anyway, lami diet, can they have ad lib oat straw chop in a bucket to limit the hay intake? Does that work to cut the sugar intake?

She is muzzled for grazing, this rubbed so she went out without this morning to let the rubs recover and came in with pulses :( feel terrible.
 
Poor fatty sends most of summer having oat straw chop as a forage ,he has more than he eats but that's mainly because he hates it .
 
Goldenstar, she is not going to like it either haha! So long as I know it is ok to do it ad lib, she can start on that with a bit of soaked hay. Poor love :(
 
We had excellent weight loss results with sisters Draught horse using oat straw chaff as a forage replacer. She came to us hugely obese and is now quite svelt for a lady of her build :) (She isn't keen on it, but eats it to keep body and soul together :D )
 
It's a horrid thing, really feel for you.
But don't fret it can be managed and you can still have a happy horse. My mare has ems so even though never actually looks fat she will get fatty deposits and a cresty neck but sadly is a bit super sensitive. I'd try and get everything under control, you don't mention heat in her feet but I'd be keen to keep stabled or on a bare turnout area until everything has settled again. If she is over weight you need to up her exercise to help get it off, no matter what there are ways to exercise, I do ride and lead and long rein my fatty pony who I'm very cautious with. Keep soaking her hay and yes use the straw chop to give her something else to keep her busy. I'm very much into the fact I would rather have to feed my horse more than forever try to restrict so if possible find a poor paddock with minimal grass and then continue to hay.
My mare actually lives out 24/7 so it's not the end of the world it can be managed and controlled so hopefully it won't happen again.
 
Lottiepony, I will keep her off grass for a few days after the pulses go down and her muzzle rubs are gone. She can be exercised, so thankfully that is definitely an option. I don't want her to be one of these who gets a tiny net at night and nothing else, I don't believe in having them stood there with nothing so oat straw will be a good half way to keep her happy (ish) without feeding more hay. I need to find a yard with crap grazing, where she is has beautiful lush fields which do no one any favours :(

Thanks for the replies all, think I caught this early enough that it's hopefully fairly easy sorted and managed.
 
My Diddy pony gets oat straw chop, he is currently on a diet so very restricted grazing with soaked hay as an extra bit of forage, he is in overnight on more soaked hay, then I make up a feed of fast fibre, a little handful of molasses free chaff to carry supplements and I mix in loads of oat straw chop to bulk it out, fills him up nicely :) he won't eat the oat straw on its own and just kicks the bucket around the stable x
 
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