Recommend me a lami friendly diet!

Cut and paste from an email Dengie sent me. Hope this helps

Hi-Fi Good Do-er oil 1%, sugar 9%, starch 1.3%
Alfa-A Original sugar 10%, starch 2%
Hi-Fi Original sugar 9%, starch 1.5%

Please note that all of these products contain molasses.

We do produce an Alfa-A Molasses Free 4.5% sugar, 2% starch and

Hi-Fi Molasses Free 2.5% sugar, 1.5% starch product which are completely molasses free.
 
Restrict grass especially at dangerous times. There's a new app to help you with this. http://www.laminitis-risk.com/ Feed hay and preferably hay with low sugar and carb content. Feed magnesium oxide and salt and a good quality balancer. Or get forage tested and feed bespoke minerals. Exercize regularly.
 
Firstly ask whether the horse actually NEEDS a bucket feed or does she just need soaked hay?

Do not trust feeds that say they are for lami's/ lami trust approved - as the dengie one as nicely illustrated, most still contain molasses.

If they were underweight id be feeding micronised linseed, a straw chop like honeychop do.
 
A bit more info would be helpful! What work is pony in? Is he overweight, underweight or just right? Age? Breed? What is he currently fed? When did he last have lami? All helpful things to know when advising feeds! :D
 
My boys live out on a track around the edge of their field to restrict their grass in take and increase their movement. I've had the grass analysed and supplement vitamins and minerals accordingly ( used forage plus service for this). They have a feed of Allen and page fast fibre with their supplements in.

At high risk times ( eg now) I feed a detox type supplement too , currently using one by Hilton herbs but have also used one from natural horse supplies and have tried charcoal too ( fine fettle feeds I think?).
 
If they are a good doer dont discount the value of feeding good clean oat straw, altho as it is low in protein and some minerals it is important to feed a vit/min supplement if you do, as in chaff, oat straw is chopped and mixed with alfalfa which balances up the nutrients but isnt popular in all camps for laminitic purposes, and of course they then coat it in some cases with sugary stuff.

Ideally mix half and half oat straw with soaked hay (dont soak the straw it goes yuk). Mind you, mine is very good doer and is having about 80% straw to hay at the moment (I am also muzzling in field).Dont feed it to picky eaters or those prone to impactions, although IMO having something to eat all night means it can be lower risk than severe rationing of forage with ponies who need to drop kgs. It is very useful for the porky ponies

I use Hifilite to hide her vits and mins. she gets no other hard feed at all. Am looking at possibly swapping to the molasses free version of Hifi.
 
I have a very laminitis Shetland 4 my grandaughter and I feed him hi fi light or happy hoof, speedy beet and Equiliser Hi performance plus as it has all the vitamins and minerals he needs plus a fantastic joint supplement he is on a starvation paddock and gets very low grade hay if it is required and he is a different pony from when we got him on loan, hope this is of some help!
 
Allen and Page do one specifically for lami-prone horses with no oil or molasses. It's called L-Mix. The L stands for laminitis! It's gorgeous smelling stuff that you have to soak for 10 mins like their Fast Fibre. My silly dobbin wouldn't eat it because he doesn't like garlic. I think Fast Fibre is ok for lamis too.

There are loads of fibre- based feeds on the market that are suitable, they all have a picture on the bag that they are approved by the laminitis trust or something... Dengie Healthy hooves, spillers happy hoof, Safe and Sound, topspec do a good non-molassed chaff etc etc etc. I think I have probably tried them all at some point but the L-Mix is definitely the lowest calorie. As I said my horse is a fussy eater so now I resort to a handful of mollichaff calmer and some D+H equibites to supplement vits and mins. Just so he gets something at teatime! In the summer he is out 24/7 in a greenguard and gets the equibites on their own as a treat for coming in to be ridden.

Other than that, soak hay for 12 hours and restrict grazing. Most lami horses don't actually need a hard feed.
 
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