MrsMozart
Just passing through...
As title 
He's seven. On long-term field rest due to 'something neurological', but we don't know what (nor do the vets - a week at the AHT and we're no further forward), and there was some take up on the right wing of his sacroilliac joint.
Can't be exercised due to the lameness. Vet said we could try lunging: we tried, but it was a no go and had D1 in tears.
He's out with the lami pony in a quarter acre fenced off paddock. Grass is about one inch long all over. We push the fencing out by a foot every four days. The rest of the grazing is lush! My DWB is in that part on her own, but will have company as of next week. My plan is to make another paddock along from the current one, put the DWB in there for a few days then move her out into the field and put the new mare in there (so she is between the existing horses and everyone can get used to each other) then move her in with the DWB in the biggest section of field and let the fatty/lami into that middle area. Hope that makes sense!
So I think I've go the grazing okay (not lush, but not too short and stressed), but the fat/exercise bit is worrrying me. He has dropped weight in the last two weeks, we're weigh taping every week, but it is very slow and given the time of year especially I am concerned from a potential lamintis point of view; although he has never suffered from it, he's never been this fat
He cannot be stabled. The vets want him out and moving around. I could make a small area for him, but then would have to start soaking hay; he would end up hardly moving at all and he needs the movement!
D1 takes him in the school and plays with him, running around etc., but he doesn't have the sparkle he used to have. He was working almost daily and was in a herd of about fifteen horses and generally part of the gang. We had to move so he could be out 24/7/365.
I wondered about long-reining, just to get some movement going, but have no idea how much that will burn up calories wise, or whether it is better to stick to the playing.
He gets a small handful of Happy Hoof and a small handful of Saracens Shape Up to get his vits and if he needs Bute/Danilon.
EDA: I forgot to say, he tied up earlier this year. Came back into work slow and steady to the letter of the vet. Had to have box rest for that as in the field he just moved around too much!
He's seven. On long-term field rest due to 'something neurological', but we don't know what (nor do the vets - a week at the AHT and we're no further forward), and there was some take up on the right wing of his sacroilliac joint.
Can't be exercised due to the lameness. Vet said we could try lunging: we tried, but it was a no go and had D1 in tears.
He's out with the lami pony in a quarter acre fenced off paddock. Grass is about one inch long all over. We push the fencing out by a foot every four days. The rest of the grazing is lush! My DWB is in that part on her own, but will have company as of next week. My plan is to make another paddock along from the current one, put the DWB in there for a few days then move her out into the field and put the new mare in there (so she is between the existing horses and everyone can get used to each other) then move her in with the DWB in the biggest section of field and let the fatty/lami into that middle area. Hope that makes sense!
So I think I've go the grazing okay (not lush, but not too short and stressed), but the fat/exercise bit is worrrying me. He has dropped weight in the last two weeks, we're weigh taping every week, but it is very slow and given the time of year especially I am concerned from a potential lamintis point of view; although he has never suffered from it, he's never been this fat
He cannot be stabled. The vets want him out and moving around. I could make a small area for him, but then would have to start soaking hay; he would end up hardly moving at all and he needs the movement!
D1 takes him in the school and plays with him, running around etc., but he doesn't have the sparkle he used to have. He was working almost daily and was in a herd of about fifteen horses and generally part of the gang. We had to move so he could be out 24/7/365.
I wondered about long-reining, just to get some movement going, but have no idea how much that will burn up calories wise, or whether it is better to stick to the playing.
He gets a small handful of Happy Hoof and a small handful of Saracens Shape Up to get his vits and if he needs Bute/Danilon.
EDA: I forgot to say, he tied up earlier this year. Came back into work slow and steady to the letter of the vet. Had to have box rest for that as in the field he just moved around too much!
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and now it maintains her weight perfectly - you can just see/feel her ribs - who knew cobs had ribs?
