atlantis
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Not been on for a while, but you guys are so good with the advice I hope you don't mind me posting.
So my mare, Lottie, is not lame. However yo moved them off fairly bare field with hay (due to mud after last weeks rain) onto pretty lush grass for a night. I was away and only found out late at night (Sunday). Came in sound in the morning but when I got there in the afternoon my mare had green slime poo stains all over her (used as a pillow) and looked pretty bloated and a little quiet. Walked out sound (and trotted on her own accord in her little 'area' but checked for pulses and they were there in all 4 feet.
I tubbed them in cold water for 30 mins, farrier coming tomorrow. Off grass on soaked hay. She is not a bit lame trotting around her little hardcore area or the arena and pulses settled now. She is fed thunderbrooks healthy chaff, pro hoof, linseed and turmeric (mainly as it means she eats her pro hoof). Token feed to get the minerals into her.
She was diagnosed with ems 2 years ago and I have been so so SO careful. My poor yo feels guilty, even though my mare isn't lame, and I don't think realised how sensitive she is to grass. Her two are eating the field down and are fine. She has been so helpful letting me put her on the hardcore yard to get her off the grass but near her mates and moving a bit. We've discussed a track but her pony doesn't respect electric fencing so she is thinking next year. There is some surfacing coming in before the winter with the track fences hopefully by the summer.
Anything else I can do? I have read a bit about horses self medicating from the hedgerow. What sort of thing should I be looking for? Not really any safe/suitable hedgerows near us so I'd have to go foraging for her.
I'm desperate to get her moving and working again to help with fitness. She has piled weight on over the last week. I'm waiting to see farrier (very well regarded farrier who specialises in barefoot - recommended him on here) tomorrow. The growth in her feet from the grass in this last week is phenomenal!! She def needs a trim.
Any further advice. I'm so glad I've caught this. One more night and I think it would have been a different story. I want to do everything in my power to prevent full blown laminitis.
Mrhsnks fir reading the essay!!!
Jx and Lottie x x x
So my mare, Lottie, is not lame. However yo moved them off fairly bare field with hay (due to mud after last weeks rain) onto pretty lush grass for a night. I was away and only found out late at night (Sunday). Came in sound in the morning but when I got there in the afternoon my mare had green slime poo stains all over her (used as a pillow) and looked pretty bloated and a little quiet. Walked out sound (and trotted on her own accord in her little 'area' but checked for pulses and they were there in all 4 feet.
I tubbed them in cold water for 30 mins, farrier coming tomorrow. Off grass on soaked hay. She is not a bit lame trotting around her little hardcore area or the arena and pulses settled now. She is fed thunderbrooks healthy chaff, pro hoof, linseed and turmeric (mainly as it means she eats her pro hoof). Token feed to get the minerals into her.
She was diagnosed with ems 2 years ago and I have been so so SO careful. My poor yo feels guilty, even though my mare isn't lame, and I don't think realised how sensitive she is to grass. Her two are eating the field down and are fine. She has been so helpful letting me put her on the hardcore yard to get her off the grass but near her mates and moving a bit. We've discussed a track but her pony doesn't respect electric fencing so she is thinking next year. There is some surfacing coming in before the winter with the track fences hopefully by the summer.
Anything else I can do? I have read a bit about horses self medicating from the hedgerow. What sort of thing should I be looking for? Not really any safe/suitable hedgerows near us so I'd have to go foraging for her.
I'm desperate to get her moving and working again to help with fitness. She has piled weight on over the last week. I'm waiting to see farrier (very well regarded farrier who specialises in barefoot - recommended him on here) tomorrow. The growth in her feet from the grass in this last week is phenomenal!! She def needs a trim.
Any further advice. I'm so glad I've caught this. One more night and I think it would have been a different story. I want to do everything in my power to prevent full blown laminitis.
Mrhsnks fir reading the essay!!!
Jx and Lottie x x x