Post laminitis management

[Wheels]

One of mine had lami over the summer last year. It is awful and upsetting to see them in so much pain I will never let it happen again! It's a strange thing because I have 3 other natives who have been much fatter than the one who did get lami and haven't had any issues with but this one probably has ems or similar.

For the few months after his lami attack I was soaking his hay and giving him weighed haynets 5x a day but over time I've been able to move on to unsoaked ad lib hay with no issues once the weight had dropped. Over the winter he dropped too much so I put him on a high oil feed as well which helped.

He is now turned out on the arena and hard standing and I hand graze only for short periods.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

It is being soaked for between 7 and 12 hours a day.... I am glad we are not on a water meter ?. Going forwards though does anyone feed low sugar haylage instead? For ease and also safety and mess. My drive is covered in hay and the water run off is going to be dangerous in winter times

If you look at my post above I use Timothy haylage, much kinder as it is only one grass, rather than the blue mix grass one, one livery used the blue and had a flare up but was fine on the Timothy one. I also recomend the EA Turmaric as explained above his flare up dropped to one at the beginning of growing season only and feet nearly always cold. Before he could only have 2 2 hr stints on the grass only. I use this one and now he is turned out with the others ( though grass not growing much) 9-4pm https://www.viovet.co.uk/Equine-Ame...kZJue-roal4uCfc3JqwRZe2Wuq4izAE8aAi1oEALw_wcB

 

[vmac66]

My mare had lami 2 years ago. She was overweight and had too much grass. The vet said she could be a candidate for ems if not managed. She had 2 weeks box rest, was sound after a week but stayed in anyway then 6 weeks hand grazing.
Total management change, she moved to a smaller field with very little grass with another pony that has had ems. Major diet, she's lost over 100kg and gone down a saddle width.
Weighed haynets this winter but haven't soaked. She's fed Dengie hi fi molasses free, 100g micronised linseed, salt and a powdered supplement containing magnesium
So far so good, she's hopefully going onto 24hr turnout this summer, first time in 2 years.
It's managaable, just can't ever take your eye of the ball but you get used to it.

 

[Melandmary]

If you look at my post above I use Timothy haylage, much kinder as it is only one grass, rather than the blue mix grass one, one livery used the blue and had a flare up but was fine on the Timothy one. I also recomend the EA Turmaric as explained above his flare up dropped to one at the beginning of growing season only and feet nearly always cold. Before he could only have 2 2 hr stints on the grass only. I use this one and now he is turned out with the others ( though grass not growing much) 9-4pm https://www.viovet.co.uk/Equine-Ame...kZJue-roal4uCfc3JqwRZe2Wuq4izAE8aAi1oEALw_wcB

Ah, I was being dumb, I have just googled and didn't realise you meant bagged as haylage. Thankyou, that will make life alot easier. I see it is available in big square bales also which means I could feed all 3 on this as the newbie has a dust allergy so haylage would be better for her too.