Laminitis question.....

Hi Nickicb - I knew something was wrong as when I brought her in from the field the previous day before, she was not herself. She was very quiet - normally she tests you, she's a mare :) She was too quiet but walked and trotted up on concrete fine, she also turned both ways in a tight circle. I remember that day there was another liveries farrier on the yard and I asked him if he would look at her, which he did and he didn't think anything was wrong. The next day I phoned my farrier and he came early morning, he did all the tests and said if she had lami she would have hit the roof. He also watched her walk, trot and circle, he told me to stable her for the next couple of days and to ring him back.

Well the next morning she had that horrible stance and she couldn't move, she was in so much pain. I was in tears and rang the farrier and the vet. It was awful, a time i shall never forget. I think when your with your horse alot you start to know them inside out and can pick up on the slightest thing.
 
When my vet came to booster our three Shetties he spoke about laminitis in terms of WHEN they would develop it rather than IF.

Two have never shown any signs, and one of those is in his late teens. The third, a12-year-old mare, has shown the first signs this autumn...when the grass seemed to rush through. We've had her in the stable yard since then and she has improved. I doubt she will be able to graze for some time.
 
bensababy said:
Ah see the old "turn out at night".. did you know its also the dew in the early mornings on the grass that is also lethal. To be unless you are going to bring your horse in at 3am - it doesnt make an ounce of difference - personally i swear by muzzles.
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Oh yeah ment later on in day till night, our pony is turned out 3pm til 9/10pm during summer and is muzzled a large portion of year as we seem to have super grass.
 
Lotty said:
Hi Nickicb - I knew something was wrong as when I brought her in from the field the previous day before, she was not herself. She was very quiet - normally she tests you, she's a mare :) She was too quiet but walked and trotted up on concrete fine, she also turned both ways in a tight circle. I remember that day there was another liveries farrier on the yard and I asked him if he would look at her, which he did and he didn't think anything was wrong. The next day I phoned my farrier and he came early morning, he did all the tests and said if she had lami she would have hit the roof. He also watched her walk, trot and circle, he told me to stable her for the next couple of days and to ring him back.

Well the next morning she had that horrible stance and she couldn't move, she was in so much pain. I was in tears and rang the farrier and the vet. It was awful, a time i shall never forget. I think when your with your horse alot you start to know them inside out and can pick up on the slightest thing.
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I have not read all the thread but just picked this up. I have a similar experience. My mare came in lame on 30th June. She is a good doer, I had watched her weight, and worked her every day, we had had no rain for a month so no lush grass.

I kept her in. Farrier came the next morning and did hoof and pulse tests. NOT lami - turn her out. I decided to keep her in. She does have laminitis and foundered after 6 weeks on box rest. She is still not right and has been stabled for 6 months. The laminitis trust say keep her in. I have found that she moves better after a little turn out and am totally at a loss as to what to do.
 
My 16.2hh cob was turned out for less than 2 hours the other morning and now has laminitis....he does have a problem but had been sound for a number of months. My vet could hardly believe just that ammount of time was enough to trigger an attack. It's such a depressing condition.
 
I feel a bit paranoid about this too - neither of my two have ever had laminitis, but I have just moved yards and we are now stabled where we have HUGE amounts of grass (And I mean huge)

My welsh x arab is not overweight but is definately the biggest he has looked in the winter after a month off and being in so much with ad lib hay,

My TB is currently at the vets cross tied with a poorly leg. By the time we get him home and back out again, he won't have seen grass for months!!!

I've just put my pony back in a MW rug - which he will stay in unless it drops into minus figures again. I like him to have ad lib hay as he weaves terribly if he runs out which I don't want (A throw back from his old life :( ) I've also cut his feed right down so he's now having a handful of happy hoof and sweede bits as I'm told they have very little sugar? I will also be buying him a grazing muzzle for the summer.

We will have to think very carefully how we manage my other boy once he's home too.
 
jendie said:
When my vet came to booster our three Shetties he spoke about laminitis in terms of WHEN they would develop it rather than IF.

Two have never shown any signs, and one of those is in his late teens. The third, a12-year-old mare, has shown the first signs this autumn...when the grass seemed to rush through. We've had her in the stable yard since then and she has improved. I doubt she will be able to graze for some time.
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Why does he think that? Just curious as there is a Shetland that lives out at our yard all year round on lush grazing who has never had a problem with laminitis - and he is 50!
 
fitzaud2 said:
OK, I have limited knowledge of lami, had a super horse that had the symptoms, but he had pedal degenerative disease. Poor boy, PTS nov 28th 2009. My question is can it happen at any age?? Just wondering, as I have 2 yearlings/nearly 2 yr olds, that are very good doers, just wondering if I should be keeping an eye!!!!!
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Yes!! My little boy got it as a 25 month old. Vet was unsure of if it was cause of bombing around on hard ground or grass (just gone onto new paddock so prob that) He was underweight at the time too so please be very careful!
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