Raised digital pulses

Orchardbeck

Orchardbeck

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Yesterday my mare presented with raised digital pulses in all four legs after a few hours in a sparse field. She was lying down which got me worried so she came straight in to a shavings bed, we soaked her haylage and I gave her a sachet of danilon. She wasn't lame, but didn't jog in like she normally does. She's had laminitis before so I know the score, but her pulses had dropped today -in fact i couldn't feel them.

Do I continue with what I have been doing, and for how long, or can she be walked and go back out with a grazing muzzle in the sparse paddock - has it been a near miss?

On Topspec's advice I've swapped her balancer today for Topspec Antilam from Topspec Senior and added mag ox, with top chop lite.
 
Wellsat - I need to check but it has nothing to do with it on this occasion - I only changed it to tonight and her pulses had gone down already this morning, and were still down when I checked them before I fed her. So not a miracle cure unfortunately!
 
I'd give her a few days off the field to check her pulses have settled. Despite the cold weather ( wind) the air temperature is still warm enough for the grass to grow. Try her on short periods of turn out & muzzle-muzzle -muzzle!
 
Carlosmum, that is exactly the plan I had in mind- she's been in for three days on soaked haylage and two meals a day of Antilam balancer, top chop lite and magox and salt (as a recent addition from my obsessive learning) and her pulses have been normal. She is not going in the field without a muzzle!

I was religious about it last year and she lost loads of weight as a result, but now I know why and how to remedy it safely it won't be happening again.
 
If it were me I'd keep her in for a week. The first time you turn her out I'd muzzle her & only have her out for a couple of hours then add an hour every other day.

My mare had laminitis 3 years ago and I would hate to have to go through that experience again.

Good luck x
 
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