Laminitus preventative

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I have a shetland pony that got laminitus last year, I have recently moved him to a new field which has lots of grass so I was obviously worried that he would get it again this summer. A friend suggested that I feed my shetland 'Andrews' Liver salts every day and this would prevent it. I have fed him 1 teaspoon of the powder designed as a hangover cure for humans and he has been turned out in long grass 24-7 with no signs of laminitus. I would recommend this to anyone!!
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I'm glad your shetland is ok, but no amount of suppliments will prevent laminitis from a lush field - I fear you have been lucky, and would strongly urge you to put a muzzle on him or move him to another field
 
If you're turning him out on unrestricted grazing, without a muzzle, I think you're taking a huge risk placing your faith in liver salts. How did you know it would work? What if he had had another attack? He still might. Even if he doesn't get laminitis, obesity puts huge strain on the heart, joints, etc.
By all means use the salts, but restrict your pony's grazing for his own sake.
 
Surely if Andrews liver salts were a magic preventitive for laminitus then naf or one of the other supplement comanies would be rebranding them and selling them? I think so far you have been very fortunate that your pony hasnt had another attack and would urge you to restrict his grazing.
 
Couldn't have put it better myself Nailed, total ignorance. Your pony will get soooo fat!
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I have a shetland who last had laminitis 4 years ago, he lives either in a bare paddock from April to November, then onto a couple of acres with a muzzle on in the winter.
 
I have never heard such crap in my life. And you can't even spell it correctly.

Luckily most people on here are too intelligent and informed to believe that a teaspoon of Andrews is a magic laminitis preventative!
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But if I were you, I would do some reading on the subject, or ask advice from someone who knows rather more than your friend appears to. For your pony's sake.
 
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A friend suggested that I feed my shetland 'Andrews' Liver salts every day and this would prevent it.

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Did this same friend also tell you that if you have sex standing up you won't get pregnant?

What a load of total B*****s. Get yourself a copy of Robert Eustace's book on laminitis, read it from cover to cover and DO WHAT IT TELLS YOU TO, TO THE LETTER!!!!
 
andrews liver salts contains magnesium (I think) BUT definitely isnt a preventative or cure for laminitis........

Sadly it will take more than a spoon of andrews to stop a horse getting laminitis, if it were the case then laminitis could be erradicated !

I think you have been VERY VERY lucky.... My poor boy has laminitis at the moment despite being in a starvy, the right weight, working and on laminitis approved feed.....

Do something now before it is too late, you should hate the sight of grass.... I would have kittens if my lad went out into a field with grass, nevermind lush long grazing! You are asking for trouble.....
Please get him off the grass!!!!!
 
You are totally mad to rely on anything to prevent laminitis. It is down to hard work and limiting the things that cause it to prevent it. It makes me mad to hear such nonsense. I get up at 5.00am bevery day just to get my lad around the block and exercised before work, have him on limited grazing and hay from April through to October, weigh tape him every week religiously and worry constantly about him getting it again. I would do whatever necessary to prevent him getting that again...even though when he got it, it was a mild twinge rather than full on...but it does not matter, I would never rely on supplements to prevent it and will do everything I can through management to ensiure it.
 
I think you're totally, well and truly bonkers. I've just lost my mare to laminitis. I was a responsible owner and didn't leave it all to quackery. I tried my flippin best to make sure she'd get better and she ended up dying. She got it after an infection in her off fore, not obesity (heavyweight cob though), and at 15 she'd never had laminitis, but the grass had been lush this year. I think if you truly believe allowing your horse to roam freely around a lush field when he's had laminitis recently, is OK as long as you give him Andrews antacid, you should consider whether this is the animal for you. Being perfectly serious here.

I'm SICK of certain people at my yard who leave their horses out 24/7, rarely come to check them (one of them comes once a fortnight and we are DIY!), never exercise them etc, who seem to 'get away' with acting so irresponsibly, sailing so close to the wind, and then someone like me gets caught out. I'm talking about people who don't have laminitic horses, but if you've got a laminitic horse and are acting this way.... pish. People at my yard keep calling me paranoid because we are dieting our gelding, and yes we are paranoid after the death of our mare, but we are mainly caring, responsible owners. It's usually the people who have obese ponies and think loving them means feeding them as much as they can eat and allowing them to graze at will.

You need to rein this in and quick. As Nailed said, you're going to lose that pony. I suggest you strip graze, muzzle, exercise as much as possible, soak the hay to death and hope to God he doesn't get laminitis again. Poor pony.
 
Hi,

It appears that you are new to the forum and I really dont want to shout you down.

However, many of us have lived through what Carrie has been through in the postings she has made on the site and know how hard she tried to save her horse.

You have the chance to change the outcome for your horse, please listen to what people are telling you, and do something now before your pony becomes another statistic of this horrible disease.

My experience of livery yards is that often people dont know what they are talking about but want to pretend that they do, and people blindly follow them.

This advice is wrong and you need to be strong enough to go against it for the sake of the survival of your pony.
 
I sat here and wept over my keyboard when I read about Carrie1983's horse and all that happened...it is truly terrible to see any horse go through laminitis, so whoever you are, please do something now for your pony to prevent it happening. If you need any further evidence then do a search for Carrie1983's posts and see for yourself.
 
My darling boy is a laminitic, well at the moment thank God. I am so fortunate he is here now. Like others I saw everyone else's ponies and horses gorging away all year on rich fertilised grass and it was mine who got it, I was so so upset.These ponies are still stuffing themselves every day, laminitis in the making. Their owners paid no attention to my warnings and think I am bonkers. Now after battling with a so called friend YO, I moved out to a wonderful place and I hope he will be fine.It took me four years and two more attacks before I moved out. He is in a yard run by someone who knows all about it.100% supportive, and before I felt a leper going on about grass, muzzles and got no support. Carrie 1983, you did everything possible. As for putting a pony on lush grass( another post) you might as well pull the trigger. Mine is lucky to be here and he is on a billiard table.
 
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