How do you manage your laminitics?

[Montyforever]

Just curious, struggling with my mare already as its the first spring grass since her acute lami last year
She's slightly pottery and her feet were hot tonight so im starting to think I should be doing something more ..

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

Mine is in at night so Ive switched from mixed soaked hay/oat straw to just oat straw (with vit/min supp in a bit of hifilite). She is not amused and is trying to eat her way out of the stable via the window surround )

She was in a bare paddock but has taken to simply charging headlong into the electric fence to get at the longr grass outside :-( so she is in the only field we have with 7 foot high fences simply to keep her in!

She was in a grazing muzzle but that was making her chin bleed where she was rubbing it on the ground to get the grass blades into the hole. So have got some padding to sew into it to try to stop that.

My main worry is that I have to stop riding for 6 week+ in a month due to an operation but you can only do so much!

 

[sarelis]

Will be watching this with interest, as have just taken on a little 23yr old Dartmoor who has previously had lami. Am used to dealing with TBs!

 

[jennyf]

I have 2 chubby cobs and 1 welsh x pony. I tend to keep them on fairly bare and poor grazing where possible. Feedwise I give a bit of fibre feed (to put supplements in) and wet hay when necessary. As to supplements, I give all 3 Magnesium Oxide and I give the little welshie some charcoal powder. Now, I cannot say if this is helpful but touch wood, the welshie didn't have laminitis last year.