Suggestions for more summer energy for lami prone

[JulesRules]

Also in Horse care and feeding

Apologies as I know similar questions have been asked on numerous occasions.

Any advise or suggestions would he helpful... Apologies for this being long but I wanted to get all the info in to save having to be asked lots of questions later..

My girl was very overweight when I got her 2 years ago. She is now much slimmer and looking a nice weight going into summer. She suffered from a bout of laminitis before I owned her but fingers crossed and touch wood she has been fine since she lost the weight. Needless to say I am still very careful with her.

During winter she is stabled overnight with a small haynet, and when she has finished that she starts on her straw bed (she also tries to eat other bedding even shavings so straw is safest for her). During winter she also has a small breakfast and dinner of hi-fi lite, Baileys lo-cal balancer and speedi beet.

She is now out 24/7 and is happy as Larry out with her mates. I'm on a livery yard where we rotate fields so for the first few weeks out on a new paddock she is muzzled or has a paddock within the field to restrict her.

They have been in her current field for about 2-3 weeks now and eaten it down, so whilst there is not masses of grass there is still fresh grass coming through, but she is not muzzled at present

I have stopped any extra feeds and her weight seems stable. She being worked roughly 5 days a week - a mixture of hacking, jumping and schooling.

However I have noticed a drop in her energy levels over the past couple of weeks. I took her up to the paddock to jump yesterday and she felt like she just couldn't be bothered which is a big change from a couple of weeks back when she was jumping 2ft over poles on the ground.

So WWYD?

Put her back on a small feed and monitor the weight?
Bring her in for a haynet before riding?

Any other suggestions?

Hopefully this is a short term problem as we are due to rotate to a new field in a couple of weeks then it will be back to the muzzle :-(

 

[Palindrome]

Have you checked if her feet are warm when you bring her in? She might have low grade lami. My sharer broke her schooling whip on my mare when she had low grade lami, she said she was being lazy. In fact, turned out she was reluctant to canter because she could feel her feet much.

 

[JulesRules]

I didn't notice any warmth in her feet although I guess it could be. I will have a feel of them later and maybe get the thermometer on them.

 

[Tiarella]

Naf ener-g supplement

 

[JulesRules]

Thanks will look at the ener-g.

The more I think about it I think it's lacking energy as opposed to sore feet. She is thinner now than ever I reckon and I had a similar problem back end of last summer/ autumn. As soon as she went back on the feed and came in at night she perked up.

I will still check her feet though and get the farrier to give her the once over.

 

[thatsmygirl]

Spring grass can lack a lot of goodness, I would keep the balancer going

 

[Vodkagirly]

Have you.tried bringing him in for a few hours sleep and deflate with a small haynet. Works wonders for mine when he has been guzzling to much grass but is most inconvenient.