laminitis

[micmoo]

Super worried about my mare who frequently trips and stumbles when walking both in hand and when ridden. She is reluctant to have her feet picked up or picked out and always has been.
She had laminitis last year andas fitted with half bar shoes, box rested for a month and then turned into a paddock. TO time was increased gradually.Her diet adjusted and restricted to soaked hay and laminitic balancer&chaff.

I am trying to reduce the likely hood of it happening again..What should I look for in hoof shape? discolouration of the hoof wall? etc etc..Any advice would be grateful..

 

[OLDGREYMARE]

Check her pulses daily,if any day they feel stronger and boundy then get her off the grass pronto,that's your warning sign.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Super worried about my mare who frequently trips and stumbles when walking both in hand and when ridden. She is reluctant to have her feet picked up or picked out and always has been.
She had laminitis last year andas fitted with half bar shoes, box rested for a month and then turned into a paddock. TO time was increased gradually.Her diet adjusted and restricted to soaked hay and laminitic balancer&chaff.

I am trying to reduce the likely hood of it happening again..What should I look for in hoof shape? discolouration of the hoof wall? etc etc..Any advice would be grateful..

I went through this with a sad end , but collected a lot of info on the way and videos - shared here >>http://horse-care-and-advice.weebly.com/l.html

 

[Mystified]

My daughters horse stumbled and tripped a lot to the extent that he went down on his knees out on a hack and fell over completely in the arena. He use to keep getting bruised feet - not laminitis and he didn't like jumping down drops, steps. Kept asking the vet and he said change his shoes and the balance of his foot but didn't make any difference. Eventually x-rayed feet and he had arthritis of the pastern joints in both front feet.

 

[tristar]

two words NO GRASS, its so high in protein at the moment.

we have a pony who can eat no grass at all without symptoms ALL year round, has 4 feeds a day and is perfect at eighteen years, barefoot, sound and moves beautifully.

 

[_HP_]

http://www.thelaminitissite.org/laminitis.html

This is a very useful, up to date site .

If your horse is having symptoms on a regular basis then you haven't found and treated the cause . You need to test for EMS..this will tell you how sensitive your horse is to sugars .

 

[Pinkvboots]

http://www.thelaminitissite.org/laminitis.html

This is a very useful, up to date site .

If your horse is having symptoms on a regular basis then you haven't found and treated the cause . You need to test for EMS..this will tell you how sensitive your horse is to sugars .

This and test for cushings my horse greatly improved with pracend but if they have anything metabolic going on you won't control the laminitis without the correct medication.