Lami dodgers - what are you doing now?

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With our recent lucky dodge of laminitis, Ed and I will be going into this spring/summer fully ready for it :D

This means I have already brought his hay intake down and will start soaking this week. He is doing 40mins on the walker (20mins each way) and being ridden every evening.

No hard feed.

Are you turning out at present? Ed is out by day in by night, soon to be swapped. In a 2/3acre well grazed field with 4 other horses.

Thoughts and how are you managing now, going into spring?

Kitty
 
Muzzle on ! and has been most of winter

Turned out by day at mo, goes out over night from May-ish but still comes in during day
 
Muzzles just come out of the wash for use tomorrow and onwards for my Shetland.
He had an attack in August last year and I want to make sure he doesn't get too fat too early.
He's stabled at night all year round, and turned out for a maximum of 6 hours a day.
 
My lot have been out in 6 acres for a few weeks, but on Friday I brought Penny (the laminitic) and Rose (not laminitic but fat Shetland) down to their 'summer area' which is our schooling paddock (basically arena size electric fenced off area). That's where they'll stay over the summer. Saf and Mist go into a bigger fenced off area around the outside of the paddock. Pen and Rose get chucked into Saf and Mist's field when we go out riding so give them a chance to munch some more substantial grass as it cheers them up no end. Seems to work for us. Not tried muzzles, I imagine my lot would be really cheesed off with them. Penny got into the habit over the winter of jumping the regular height electric fence posts, so we've made the paddock using those extra tall ones!
 
I'm feeling sick with worry! The geldings (12) go out onto 2 huge fields at the end of this week that for the first time since I've been on the yard haven't been grazed at all for 6 months. I can't control the amount of field he has access to so I limit his time on it. So he'll be in for 12-15 hours a day. And will try and ride most days - my usual summer routine is 6 out of 7 if I can manage it.

I'm just stressing as wonder with the bad/different winter we've had whether it's changed the fructan content or grass growth/quality a lot this year. I've been reducing down his haynet for the last few weeks but haven't quite got him down to what I'd like him to weigh coming out of the winter. I'll be checking for pulses, using weightape...going home and drinking heavily that kind of thing...:D
 
Mine is out 24/7:) - grass has just started growing - her paddock is being harrowed and rolled tromorrow and then she will be on restricted :rolleyes:- unlucky for her its the end my other horse trashes in the winter so there is little grass!! :D She is the perfect weight - can just see her ribs and feel them (she is a hw cob!:eek:) and is getting her chaff with Lamitinitis Prone Supplement twice a day and F4F. The hay is now rubbish stuff so she will get a couple of sections soaked to make sure she has enough fibre going through her system and she excercised a minimum of 3 times a week - lunged, hacked and schooled - and more whenever possible - more likely now the days are longer.:)

The bigger her tantrums the more I know I have got it right!!:D
 
I'm also worrying!!! My 19 year old NF is out in probably about 5 acres with 8 other mares, the ground was bare until about a week ago and is now very green with new shoots. She no longer waits by the gate to come in but is busily munching the new shoots and has come in the last two days with grass mumps (she is out from about 11am to 3pm) and is either longlined or ridden every day and is looking thinnish rather than tubby! Am thinking that tomorrow (due to grass mumps) I should either muzzle her or turn out for less time but not really sure which?
 
anyone muzzle youngsters. Dont want my 2yo getting too fat, she seems to have bloated the last couple of days, the grass has really come through in a short space of time. She is in at night and willcontinue to be so, grass isnt the richest but plenty of it, 2 on a 3 1/2 acre field
 
I have just tested my electric fence energiser and have unraveled the tape the posts are ready to be pushed the ground so will be fencing the field off tomorrow.

My NF youngster as been on a diet all winter and only had hay when we had heavy snow, and he is still fat so this year I am planning early. The shettie has cushings so he has to be monitored carefully too.
 
My two, that are prone, have lost a load of weight over the winter, they hav'nt got an ounce of fat on them, yaaay, they are on rough , rough, grazing, and hope they will be moved before that starts to spring, so they can be stabled and strip grazed and ridden.
 
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