Lami pony has come in :( anyone else?

[SophieLouBee]

Poor little welshy had to come in last night
Have been monitoring her for a couple of weeks now, just had that feeling...

Just started showing last night (she is on very limited grazing as it is), she had gotten a bit cresty, but it has hardened and she is doing the tell tale shuffling and shifting from one foot to another.

First time in 2 years we have had a problem too I was kind of expecting it this year though, just because of all this good weather so early.

Luckily I have an ally/dirt track from the stables to the field that she can go on for a few hours, it's nice and soft and has no grass on. She suffers terribly with the dust inside too, but I have her at the end by the door, so she isn't too bad...

Farrier coming friday to inspect and trim. Hopefully I have gotten to it early enough to prevent a full scale disaster this year!

Anyone else bought ponies in yet in yet? Also like to know what other peoples feeding regime is?

 

[Kellys Heroes]

Our girl (14.2hh 17 y/o Welsh D X) started with lami again about 18-19 months ago now, they found it was Cushings as we just couldn't shake it off
she's treated (and always has been) as a strict lami; limited grazing, with a muzzle, fed Happy Hoof with garlic and seaweed (and Cushy Life now) once a day, and 2x soaked nets once a day.
She's just come sound again...fingers crossed...and like you she has her own little paddock, with no grass in it for her to stretch her legs in until we can start walking her again.
Its such a horrible disease - 9 horses on our yard have come down with it in the last 2 months or so, I just don't think people have been ready for it
K x

 

[Fii]

We take two off ours to their summer home befor the grass gets going.
One of them was getting out into a field of new lay, so he has put on a bit more than he should have (sneaky little fecker).
They are now on a fenced off piece that the cattle had been on all winter, and were coming in at night with hay, but now we fixed the lecy fence ( it now works, evil snigger ) they are out, but can come into the yard, and go into a stable if they want shelter.
I put a small amount of hay out for them once a day.

Just to add neither ponies have laminitus, but are prone to it.

 

[SophieLouBee]

Ahh KH poor mare, but glad she is coming sound now! Hopefully there is light at the end of the tunnel!
It really is a terrible thing, especially if you aren't aware how to manage it. My little ponio is a rescue and I think was an acute case before she came to us. She hasn't had it for years, but I don't know why, I just had a feeling that this year it was coming! To be fair, she's not had to be on restricted grazing as such for the last few years living a pretty normal lifestyle, as her paddock is pretty poor anyway and she shares with another fatty pony, but the weather this year seems to have bought out doctor green early. She's got slightly increased depressions above coronary band than normal I noticed today, urgh, luckily farrier was booked for friday anyway, so he can decide what to do with her feet.

I have a problem because I have such a variety of horses, her being lami, my big lad who is a bit of a poor dooer, takes a while for him to recover from winter so needs as much grass as he can get, and a PBA who doesn't do that well in the winter, but balloons as soon as it gets warm, finally the other pony who does pretty well whatever, she does get a bit podgey but nothing major and can be left to her own devices as long as she is worked!
So field management is really important, I need to make sure 1 paddock is well grazed all year round and not fertilized, and the others are rotated, the two have amazing grass, and the one is a bit scrubby, but good for winter as it stays dry. So I usually have paddocks that cater for all needs! Then I have an emergency 3 acres that is lush grass (usually cut for hay) if we have a major drought! Fun fun fun.

 

[frozzy]

The thing about laminitis is its all in the management. small pony+grass- exercise= laminitis!
I breed welsh B's and the biggest problem is the mares not in foal and not in any sort of excercise. We removed them from the 28 acre field where they wintered at the end of FEBRUARY. Into their "control" paddocks. These are poor at the best of times but the ponies are fed hay daily. There are lots of things you can do to prevent laminitis, grazing muzzles being one.Quite frankly "monitoring" it is not enough. Leave nothing to doubt, remove from the cause and manage it.

 

[bethwelshcob]

.Quite frankly "monitoring" it is not enough. Leave nothing to doubt, remove from the cause and manage it.

i totally agree with this monitoring is not enough, this is something i feel very strongly about, we owe it to our horses/ ponies to keep them laminitis free and the only way to do this is by strict management, I have a extremely good doer who is stabled in the summer with 2-3 hrs turnout a day and exercised daily, I asked my vet what was the best time to turn her out and he recommended a couple of hours between the hours of 12 midday to just before dusk

 

[foraday]

The environmental changes we have at the moment lots of sun and very little rain but remember the dew in the morning!

I agree with fozzy -remove the cause! That being grass!

HH did a brill article a few weeks ago and an owner brave enough just removed the grass completely thus saving their pony from any repeat attacks of lami

I agree this is the only way to go to manage the situation! There are so many horses going down with Lami - no longer is it just ponies