Laminitis on livery yards..... How do you cope?

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Hi
I just wondered how thoses people with horses on livery yards manage laminitis in the summer?

The yard i am on has no hardstanding fields just the stables and the fields.

Oscar is a devil too as he can get his muzzle off if there is any wooden fence or jumps in the field!!

I dont want him to be in for hours and hours but i cant think of another option if he keeps getting his muzzle off :-(

Any ideas apriciated?!
 
not on a yard, but the yard where my friend is uses electric fencing and allows the laminitics a very small area within the main paddock (they usually have a max of 3 in a paddock together)
 
Small paddock down to bare nothing's really, or a muzzle but I had to also adjust it to stay on..attached to headcollar and also got some fur to use as a browband...avail from tack shops...worked a treat.
It can be difficult if your yard hasn't got a spare grazed down paddock or field so using muzzle is only option and limited t/o, say am or pm out - with muzzle on of course.

I struggled like mad at one yard, he had to be stabled pedal dropped slightly, but that didn't stop the little sausage breaking free from stable and cantering like mad to his field......idiot!! lol but that was my boy god bless him..
 
I ended up moving yards to one with individual turnout to enable me to manage my horses weight. He never actually got laminitis but was borderline obese and the yard would not allow me to fence off an area for him so my options were to either only turn him out for a couple of hours a day or move - so I moved! I now manage my own grazing and have them all on restricted grazing during the summer and have lots of grass for them in the winter!
 
i have a few small paddocks which i graze off with the good doers esp for the ones that could be/wouldbe prone to lami, and for the ones that have used their expansion ratio to the full! a good yard should be able to accommodate/manage any lami prone pony/horse.
 
Our yard owner manages the paddocks so that lami horses can go in the 'starvation' paddock or well grazed paddocks and those that need building up go in the paddocks with longer grass.

My girl only has to look at grass to expand her waist line, so she was allowed to graze in paddocks that had been grazed down to a low enough level.
 
we have a 'starvation paddock'
Small postage stamp eaten most days for a bit by a 'lucky' horse! hehehe
6ft high electric fancing with 4 foot double up inside layer if needed.

its fort knox!


I threaten my girl with it if she is misbehaving in the school ;)
 
My horse has his muzzle on when turned out, I've customised it, if you pm my your email address I'll try and send you a pic, or I'll try and upload to photobucket but it won't be til tonight.

That way he can go out with the others and not be isolated, he gets it off very occasionally, I then adjust it a bit so he can't get it off, you'll see what I mean when you see the pics
 
At our livery yard you get your own individual paddock which is all fenced off with post and electric fencing. A paddock is too big for my mare especially in the summer so I've asked another livery to share it with me. My mare only goes out 4-5 hours a day muzzled, she has the greenguard with the halter and she's only managed to get it off once. We're not allowed to put hay in the fields.
 
I had to move yards to one where they allowed me to use a grazing muzzel!! Old yard owner thought they were cruel and would take them off. The yard I moved to also had smaller paddocks as opposed to acres and acres of lush grass which the old one had. I also bought my own electric fence kit to section off areas if necessary.

The other problem I have encountered with laminitis and livery yards is where they only allow you to feed their own haylage. Sometimes you just have to move to get the right facilities for your horse.
 
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