cptrayes
Well-Known Member
"out of interest, do you think the only reason a barefoot horse is ever footsore is from laminitis? "
Do you think I'm stupid? And you wonder why I am "so defensive all the time" !
No, but I think a horse which is exhibiting a very characteristic footfall, which I have seen many times before and which has always indicated sore soles,
when that horse has been perfectly OK for seven years and is still OK on shod front feet,
which has recently been exposed to six or eight weeks of eating grass with high levels of fructans in them which it will never have experienced in its life before is,
common things being common - and sugar sensitivity in unshod working horses is VERY common -
most likely to be feeling its feet due to fructan consumption. And if so, removing it from the grass for a few days might prevent a serious bout of laminitis as the spring grass comes through. And will prove one way or another, at no cost, whether it is the answer. And it can do no harm whatsoever.
What IS your problem with that?
Do you think I'm stupid? And you wonder why I am "so defensive all the time" !
No, but I think a horse which is exhibiting a very characteristic footfall, which I have seen many times before and which has always indicated sore soles,
when that horse has been perfectly OK for seven years and is still OK on shod front feet,
which has recently been exposed to six or eight weeks of eating grass with high levels of fructans in them which it will never have experienced in its life before is,
common things being common - and sugar sensitivity in unshod working horses is VERY common -
most likely to be feeling its feet due to fructan consumption. And if so, removing it from the grass for a few days might prevent a serious bout of laminitis as the spring grass comes through. And will prove one way or another, at no cost, whether it is the answer. And it can do no harm whatsoever.
What IS your problem with that?