Fiona
Well-Known Member
I feel for you OP, there are enough issues to be considered when buying a new horse, never mind management issues to be considered as well.... I have to admit that my first horse, a 15hh welsh cob got laminitis (rarely in his back feet) once when I was away a bit more than usual over the summer and he didn't get the work he normally did. However I owned him for another 10 years subsequently and he never even had a sniff of it again, because I kept him a lot slimmer.
We are going to look at a childs pony for loan at the weekend, which has previously had laminitis. However in our defence, we keep ponies at home, have an all weather turnout area as well as an arena, and two tiny paddocks which can be divided by electric fence. Seemingly he will submit to wearing a grazing muzzle. He was a successful show pony in a previous life many years ago, so he was kept in a fairly chubby condition.....
Does anyone think we are mad, or is it a reasonable gamble to take as the pony is on loan.
Fiona
We are going to look at a childs pony for loan at the weekend, which has previously had laminitis. However in our defence, we keep ponies at home, have an all weather turnout area as well as an arena, and two tiny paddocks which can be divided by electric fence. Seemingly he will submit to wearing a grazing muzzle. He was a successful show pony in a previous life many years ago, so he was kept in a fairly chubby condition.....
Does anyone think we are mad, or is it a reasonable gamble to take as the pony is on loan.
Fiona