Grass Sickness

[TGM]

Would like to hear people's experiences regarding the prevention of further cases of grass sickness in horses kept at yards where a single case of GS has been diagnosed. Have you found that if the right precautions are taken, ie moving remaining animals out of the affected field, feeding additional hay etc., that no other animals have been affected?

 

[zozo]

we had one casue of grass sickness on the yard 2 years ago. the remaining horses were moved out of the field. Now all grass livery horses have hay in the field, the field where the case was is not grazed in the summer, and only by stabled horses in the winter, field not used in spring or autum either. no other horses on the yard has got it

 

[algy666]

My horse was PTS with acute grass sickness 6 years ago, he was the only horse affected. The other horses were being moved out of that field anyway, as they'd just been wormed. We've had no cases since, and I'm at a large livery yard with upwards of 40 horses on it.

 

[Kayfm]

Difficult subject. We had a field near us that had numerous numbers of cases, mostly fatal. I had a few of my horses in that field years before with no problems. Who knows what sets it off. I also had a jumping horse of my sisters die from it in another field. He was the only case in that field ever. It is terrible thing to experience.

 

[Honeypots]

A friend lost a mare to GS approx 8 yrs ago. The field she lived out in has been grazed every day since and there have been no other cases..

 

[Donkeymad]

What are 'right precautins'?
A local Stud with approx 40 horses lost a horse to GS over twenty years ago. Nothing has changed, horses still graze the same fields etc. there have been no further cases.
I had a mare die from GS 7 years ago, nothing has changed at our place, the horses have reamined on the same pasture - no further cases.