laminitis headache

Have decided after following up all the posts here to take her off thunderbrook, get blood test done, test the hay, and start her on very simple diet, soaked hay basic supplements salt/vit e/magnesium seem the most vital. She had half an hour muzzled grazing as she looked so fed up in the mud paddock but came in with very hot near fore and pulse up so clearly no grass at all at the moment, time for the vet! Does anyone know why this problem is so widespread now? When i was a kid the ponies worked hard and only got turned out in the summer, i never saw a case of laminitis till maybe 15 years ago. If i could just get her sound enough to exercise properly that would be fantastic. Again thanks for all the help and advice, hopefully things wil improve for her...
 
I was thinking this too, why are there so many cases of laminitis all of a sudden? On my yard alone we have lost 3 this year and my vet has lost two of his racehorses!
Sounds like your doing the right thing, def get blood tests done, without doing this we would have never found out why my boy was never loosing weight and getting lami, atleast you will have a better way of treating it,
Next year mine will have turn out with no grass and be exercised ALOT more as i never want to have this nightmare again!
 
Haven't read all the replies so sorry if this has already been mentioned. It sounds like she cannot have any grass at all, so is there any chance of putting her into what the Americans would call a "dry lot"? Then all she will eat is soaked hay and a vit/min supplement.
 
brandybuck said:
Have decided after following up all the posts here to take her off thunderbrook, get blood test done, test the hay, and start her on very simple diet, soaked hay basic supplements salt/vit e/magnesium seem the most vital. She had half an hour muzzled grazing as she looked so fed up in the mud paddock but came in with very hot near fore and pulse up so clearly no grass at all at the moment, time for the vet! Does anyone know why this problem is so widespread now? When i was a kid the ponies worked hard and only got turned out in the summer, i never saw a case of laminitis till maybe 15 years ago. If i could just get her sound enough to exercise properly that would be fantastic. Again thanks for all the help and advice, hopefully things wil improve for her...
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Because we over feed, over rug and under exercise.

We feed carrots, apples, lickits and mints aplenty.

Feed companies produce alfalfa feeds, molassed feeds and feeds high in sugar and starch.
Even the lami mixes have it all in:(

Add this to the sugar in the grass and bang - one straw too many on the camel's back:(
 
My TB went on for three years being footy in varying degrees. It all began when I moved him from a yard on high ground next to moors to one in the bottom of the valley next to a river with knee deep grass.
I have done three major changes since last August and we seem to have lost the footiness - I stopped feeding speedibeet and alfalfa and swapped to Rowanberry SoftnSoak Ready Fibre Mash with some minerals added. The other major change is I moved to a yard on high ground again. His bare feet have never looked so good since he was deshod six years ago now.
I'm doing a little survey on how the environment affects feet over on the UKNHCP site. If anyone reading this is a member there, and you have a horse with grass sensitivity and/or lami, please would you vote? http://uknhcp.myfastforum.org/ftopic3558-0-asc-20.php
 
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