Haylege making pony foot sore?

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My little mare had her feet trimmed for the firs time in 9 weeks on thursday and today she is very foot sore,they look quite short to me, but up until moving to my new yard she'd been on hay and find, she's now on haylege for convenience as my others are on it, could this cause her soreness? she did chuck herself around being trimmed to.
 
Could she have a laminitis brewing or have a very mild one - the fact that it's come up after switching to haylage makes me think this. Ask your farrier to have a look if you trust him.
 
mynutmeg said:
Could she have a laminitis brewing or have a very mild one - the fact that it's come up after switching to haylage makes me think this. Ask your farrier to have a look if you trust him.
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She's worse in one foot,and has been on good grass all summer with her foal and been fine. I am gonna call my farrier in the morning and get him to come and have a look. Thanks
 
Be very alert, haylage was the cause of the laminitis in our little pony too.. I'd act as though she does have it until it is proven that she doesn't.
 
She will get no more haylege, I've organised hay or her with a friend and will see how she is in the morning. She gets a handful of pony nuts, AM and PM to stop her smashing the door down when the others are fed. I will soak her hay tomorrow and the field grazing is poor so she should be fine out during the day, I'm working on the yard tomorrow so I can bring her in early if i need to as well.
 
Haylage has much more sugar in then hay and can deff. Give foot soreness. Also a move, even from field to field, can distress a horse and be the cause of early laminitis. But you can never be to carefull and have a chat with the trimmer good luck ;)
 
It could be the haylage, yes, but it sounds like it was the trim which triggered the soreness?

ETA crossposted with amymay.
 
Kikke said:
Haylage has much more sugar in then hay
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Actually this is not the case, some of the grass sugars are actually used up in fermentation during the haylage making process, so sugar levels are usually less than that in hay, assuming the same type of grass and time of cutting.

However, it is possible that this pony has been on low sugar meadow grass hay previous and has now been given high sugar early cut ryegrass haylage, which could result in laminitis. However, this would be due to the type of grass in the forage, rather than the forage type itself!

Dengie do a forage analysis service and found that in one year the average sugar content of hay was 10.5% whereas haylage was 9.8%.

But the feed may be irrelevant - it could be that the pony was trimmed a little too short this time!
 
shysmum said:
let us know how pony gets on - interested ! :)
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This morning, she was much better, pottered out to the field, not crippled at all but sore, farrier came at lunch time and she has indeed been trimmed too short. Hopefully she'll be fine in a few days, I have however changed her onto soaked hay for the for seeable future. I cannot tell you how relieved I am that its not the dreaded 'L' Word!!
 
Barney&Buzz said:
This morning, she was much better, pottered out to the field, not crippled at all but sore, farrier came at lunch time and she has indeed been trimmed too short. Hopefully she'll be fine in a few days, I have however changed her onto soaked hay for the for seeable future. I cannot tell you how relieved I am that its not the dreaded 'L' Word!!
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Is she receiving any bute?
 
She had a Danilion yesterday mid afternoon and this eve she is totally sound. I'm going to leave her till the weekend to do any ground work with her though and my farrier is out tomorrow for another horse at the yard and will have another look at her to be 100% sure it was just the trim making her sore.
 
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