Laminitis - vet advised swapping to total hay replacer!

Echo everyone else re wearing the boots - even just worn in the stable they'll make all the difference. (Replied on your other thread too- just saw this one!) Make sure she's getting enough protein for healing too. Not a feed expert but the soaked hay won't have enough I don't think.
 
Timothy haylage and winergy low energy both low in sugar and sugar is the killer, soaked hay still has plenty of sugar in it that is why my mare 1) wasn't loosing weight and 2) lame. Try and cut down on the sugar content and weight your feed and hay. My little mare at 11.2hh went from 305kg to 242kg when I put her on the timothy haylage which a good friend told me about as I'd never heard of it and doing the soaked hay with no progress and she is now sound and a lot slimmer. I've bought the Horsehage timothy but there are other suppliers about give it a try you could do worse.
 
I agree about timothy haylage, if you can get it it's fantastic stuff.

My welsh cob did nearly 9 months box rest, and to begin with was on 3 weekly trims & regular x-rays to ensure foot balance was bang on & he was going the right way - he'd very nearly rotated through the sole on one front. He was shod with a wide, supportive shoe, a pad with a frog plate & putty. His hay was all weighed then soaked for a minimum of 12 hours & thoroughly rinsed before it was fed, he also had Top Spec Lite balancer. For many of those months the only time he set foot outside the box was for the farrier & x-rays, yet amazingly he settled well to the routine & was quite cheerful - particularly on horrible winter days when I swear he smirked as the others went out!

Nearly two years later he's a happy sound lad. I don't tend to go faster than walk on the roads or hard ground - though he merrily trots round the field when he's out - & so have finally, at 11, started doing some school work with him & he's proving distinctly hot when asked to work correctly! No sign in his movement or ability that he came so close to being pts. Don't despair yet, remember it takes a long time to grow new hoof & also that a good vet & farrier, working together, can sometimes work near miracles.
 
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