Laminaze

It certainly helped while I was getting to grips with the basics of dietary needs for lami-prone horses. But after extensive dietary review I haven't had the need to reintroduce a separate laminitis support supplement.
 
Thanks for your reply. You say you did a complete dietary review for lami-prone horses. What do you find is best for them? Any help would be most appreciated :)
 
I used it recently, and although it definitely helped get her digestive system back to normal, I'm not 100% sure it helped with the lami

However, my girls lami was caused by peritonitis so her digestive system was all over the place, but it got her appetitie back to normal and also her toilet.

Hope this helps a little :)
 
Hen said:
It certainly helped while I was getting to grips with the basics of dietary needs for lami-prone horses. But after extensive dietary review I haven't had the need to reintroduce a separate laminitis support supplement.
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Sorry for the late reply, long day!

Initially I took advice from various feed supplier helplines. That got me some way along the line of improvement and at least got me reading what was in a bag of feed. But an advertised 'low sugar/low starch' feed isn't necessarily at the level which is right for the horse, or devoid of ingredients which weren't helping to resolve the problem. At least with that measure, no grazing and a switch to hay, improvements were seen on weight level and general soundness but I had no performance horse.

It was only when I found out about forage analysis and mineral balancing that I think we moved away from the teetering edge of sub-clinical lami symptoms. And I'd never have thought of feeding sugar beet because that must contain lots of sugar, no??!! It's been a steep learning curve but only when I had a hay analysis done did I realise that I could feed all the low calorie feed I could find, it wouldn't make any real difference unless I soaked the living daylights out of my hay and switched feeds to reduce the calcium and iron intake which was throwing out other mineral uptake. I unpicked the bagged feeds which were still not helping as they contained mollasses/lots of soya/too much calcium etc etc and learned to provide more straight feed with balanced minerals. The results have been illuminating, both in terms of energy, willingness to work, good movement and an unbelievable grooming-free glow. We're also now back out on some turnout (from no turnout) with no lami-specific supplementation.
 
I have used it in the past and did think it helped but at the end of the day as I discovered you need to find the cause of the lami and treat it, no amount of supplements etc will really help unless you fix the underlying issue. 90% of lami cases as caused by metabolic issues.

http://www.thelaminitissite.org/index.html

This site helped me a lot.

Agree with the above poster about diet, do not just trust the 'lami safe' stickers, learn to read the ingredients and understand them yourself, its an eye opener.
 
Thanks for your input everone. Can see I need to do a lot of research. It really seems to be a minefield and lots of conflicting information out there. Just want to figure out the best possible course of action for our girl :)
 
Don't waste your money..from what i remember it is pretty pricey...get a good all round vit and min supplement and some Magnesium..get the diet to as near to under 10% sugar/starch combined and soak hay...then you are halfway to fighting the battle..
 
Thanks rema. Am going to study the ingredients of her hard feed tomorrow,(which are supposed to be lami friendly - we will see!) she is off grass & on soaked hay & just picked up a good all round supplement. Lost a pony to this as a child (many moons ago & even less known about the condition then) very traumatic time & not to be repeated :(
 
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