Grazing muzzles and in at night

[Shysmum]

Anyone else on this routine atm ?

I must be one of those loonies who actually missed mucking out so am quite enjoying myself.

How long should I keep this up - pasture very rich he is on. I suspect it's gonna be a long time.. but anything to prevent lami. sm x

 

[Divasmum]

It sounds as if you will need to be on this routine for some time if your horse is lami prone.

 

[Archie07]

If possible and he's lami prone I'd do in during the day and out muzzled at night.

 

[the watcher]

Until August or until the grass slows down, and then be prepared to do it again for the autumn grass. Luckily I have tubby on a starvation paddock this year, otherwise it is my usual routine too

 

[Shysmum]

Tbh he's only three, and from what i know, he's never had lami..he's a hairy coblet and I can just see it happening tho. Am I being over protective ? I feed him Healthy Hooves, he's barefoot, maybe I am just fussin too much. but then again, don't want to risk it. sm x

ps putting him in at night as he's got company in the next door stable...lol.

 

[Monopoly]

Nope, not over-protective at all. Like you say, if you can just see if happening, prevention & sensible management are loads better than cure (imo, anyway!)

 

[Shysmum]

thankyou !! When I see all the gypsy vanners out in the fields with nowt done to them, I start to think I am a bit of a nutter, but he's my baby.. sm x

 

[milliepops]

I'm planning to dig out the muzzle this weekend. She will still be in at night for the time being, then if/when rolleyes it gets hot, I'll have her in during the day instead.

I have this routine until autumn, or until the grass stops growing, whichever is sooner

 

[hannah87]

yep out 8-4 with muzzle and in with hay soaked for 24 hours at night. Looking quite trim atm!

 

[nomad]

i have a little welsh mountain pony that is prone to lami.he goes out during the day with a muzzle and in at night.he only goes without a muzzle in the winter but it does go on if its frosty

 

[loubymay]

I am in this situation, but i do it a little differently, mine goes out muzzled in afternoon and night and then in during the morning sometimes longer if i dont get a dinner at work, only reason is that the grass full the the richness that brings on lami in the mornings and she loves being out, so i keep her in, in the morning sometimes all day and put her out at night. Its just better for her that way then. x

 

[Suffolkangel]

I have a lami prone welsh and pony who looks at grass and doubles in size... they both live out all year round. they're both on a starvation paddock at the moment, and touch wood havent needed a muzzle on either yet. I rotate my fields so put my other 3 ponies on the field to eat it down before these two go move on to it.
COuld you not strip graze of do a race track?
Why is he getting the healty hooves? Mine are all in work but not needing any feed....

 

[brighteyes]

QR to all

The 'fructans' theory has been blown out of the water and with it all the short/long stressed grass, frosty grass, you name it.

It all boils down to obesity and the cumulative effect of the adipocytokines released from the fat cells - which fat horses have in abundance. This sentence in particular sums it up -"People get insulin resistance and diabetes because they have been on a bad diet for years, not because they ate a doughnut today"

Which is also why many people who take on ex show ponies in their twilight years and tend to their needs (and waistlines) with diligence and concern, are then baffled (and later on heartbroken) when they lose their beloved ponies to the laminitis which they have guarded so heroically against.

I am still infuriated about the pain my little pony and me suffered over her random attacks - and now she is gone. I would cheerfully shoot and kill those vain and ignorant idiots who fed her for the judges and the ribbons. I should still have her, were it not for them. I hope they get debilitating illnesses and suffer incredible pain.

Rant over.

All you muzzlers - good on ya, keep it up and the overnight muzzler - watch out as if it comes off...

 

[brighteyes]

Yeah - Suffolkangel is right - why are you feeding, unless it's for vits and mins? I which case you'd be better off with a supplement.

Get/borrow some sheepsies - they scoffed every scrap of my grass!

 

[Daisy2]

I am still waiting for my muzzles to arrive in the post from dinky rugs, so at the moment cus I dont have a stable they are out without muzzles for about 4hrs a day and in stavation paddock for the remaining 20hrs which is a long track down the side of a 13 acre field which sounds like a lot but its full of stingers, mole hills, dry patches where the sheep shade, oh yeah I have sheep on the field too and a bit of grass to nibble on, too early to tell if its working yet. Not looking forward to training them with the muzzles though, but when I do they will be out all day and paddock at night. We hack about 4 times a week for between 1 and 3 hrs.