Help ... Please

[HuntingMadImmy]

One of my newest horses who is a project has recently been diagnosed with very mild cushings. I am speaking to the vet tomorrow about medication but would like to know more on cushings. I know it's about and enlarged pituary gland and its symptoms but there's not much about horses who have been diagnosed still carrying on work !

are horses with cushings still able to work? Also are they more expensive to manage ?
Thanks !

 

[ester]

Most carry on just fine, the biggest thing is probably weight management due to the increased risk of laminitis although medication also helps mitigate this.
They are more expensive to manage because the medication (daily) is not cheap.

 

[Micropony]

There are quite a few oldies on the yard where I keep my boy, and two or three of them have Cushings. They are all medicated, fed and managed to minimise the risk of lami, and they do just fine. None of them are three day eventing or anything - in their 20s you'd hardly expect them to be - but they cope perfectly well with the demands of schooling, hacking, a little bit of jumping and generally being much loved leisure horses.

 

[peaceandquiet1]

It affects different horses in different ways. My old pony is struggling to maintain her weight these days. Her medication has increased recently to one tablet daily.
Sometimes it can make them go off certain foods, i have noticed this with ours. She is 26 this year. Won the mounted games section last year an an agricultural show!