Update on your laminitics

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Over christmas there was a lot of horses coming down with laminitis, including mine, how are your horses doing? mine is still on box rest {since 23rd dec} hes isnt on bute any more, but is still not right, got his blood test back he is borderline cushings, the prescend is starting to work, it feels like a life time :(
 
3/3 are doing fine with lots of exercise and low sugar diet. Two can manage some grass the third can't have any. One is EMS/IR, one was a fatty (not any more) and the other has severe metabolic disturbances. None are Cushings, sorry to hear that yours is - that is a real toughie.
 
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Mine whos laminitis this time was triggered by haylage is doing well on soaked hay and minimal grass now.
 
My pony who has suspected cushings is doing ok, but his foot growth has sped up recently so I'm watching him like a hawk. I just wish I had a rider for him to keep him moving more as he's a fab pony, but now the ground is firmer I'll be lunging him more.
 
Mine finally out all day. 1-2 hours on grass (poor grazing) and rest of day in mud pen with soaked hay but soooooo glad they are not in anymore!!! Still checking pulses hundred times a day it feels! and eeking out their time on grass by 1/2hr each day. Just waiting for the results of the cushings test on one to see where we go from here.
Does anyone know how quickly the pulse will appear if they start with laminitis again??? is it immediately, within 12 hours/24 hours???????
 
amandap said:
Mine whos laminitis this time was triggered by haylage is doing well on soaked hay and minimal grass now.
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Ditto - I've got a potential 4th who I hope we caught before full blown lami set in. Ok on minimal grass and lots of hedge, but can't tolerate even the low sugar haylage.
 
I dont envy any of you. My shetland had laminitis last summer, we put him on bute and box rest they strip grazing. He eventually came right but im always really cautious now. All winter i have been watching his weight, so when he goes out in the spring/summer controlling laminitis will be easier - hopefully, he just needs to smell the grass and the weight goes on :(

Oevr the winter saff has been on a hay replacer - alfalfa lite and reduced hay, mineral lick and grass [but there is none just now]
 
Not such good news at this end, I'm afraid. Our beloved mini shetland, Gollie, went down with an acute attack (his first) between Christmas and New Year and had to be pts 7 weeks later as everything possible had been done but he was still in agony. He was rising 8 - no age for a pony.
Fingers crossed for all you suffering owners. xx
 
Hi Ameeyal, I was one of the laminitic bunch - I remember your name because you sent a nice message and it cheered me up!

Really sorry to hear about your horse and the borderline Cushings. How old is he/she? But Cushings isn't necessarily the end of the world. We've had one or two with it over the years and they went on a long time - and were rideable. It just depends how it goes.

My mare made a very quick recovery. We could NOT keep her in - she just kept jumping out, and I decided that it was safer and better for her to be out, quiet, with her mates than stomping around (she's always been out 24/7 with shelter). So I let her out, and it worked a treat. She was able to access the open, deeply bedded barn and she would just bring herself in for a nice lie down, and the other two respected this and didn't bother her. She never had her shoes off, she didn't care a hoot about being re-shod routinely when the farrier next came, and he can see so signs of her ever having had it!!??

I was certain that it had been caused by over rich haylage. We changed onto some lovely haylage that is almost hay it's so dry (she's RAO and can't tolerate any normal hay, soaked or not). She instantly lost a lot of weight and looks really trim now. She's out with no grazing restrictions, but during that bad Christmas weather I'd just been giving them haylage ad lib, and the quantity and richness was all too much for her.

Ther's been one annoying downside though. Along with her having laminitis for the first time ever, she has also developed for the first time - and we're not sure if they are connected - a very nasty dose of flexural dermatitis - the lab said she had 3 sorts of bacteria involved. We wonder if this was because she was at very low ebb with the laminitis and her immune system was compromised. Also part of our field was very muddy. This is proving really hard to clear up. I did hack her out very quietly with her friends last weekend, walking only, which didn't seem to affect her, but for the last day or two she's been very stiff and sore again, and though the excrescences on her legs are dwindling they're obviously still troubling her quite a bit.

So - swings and roundabouts. But spring's coming, they say, so here's hoping that all our laminitics are going to pick up soon. And so sad to read about poor little Gollie. What a horrible decision to have to make.
 
My mare came down with it last monday so far been in box rest for 2 weeks caused by concussion she is stressed being in so on sedation, vet back out next week to see how we are getting on she can move now so starting to improve.
 
My welsh cob came down with it two weeks ago and is being tested for Cushings/EMS on Wednesday. He is back into light exercise now and is his usual jolly self - except in the stable as he is starving; just two small soaked haynets a day and a little bit of chop. It' s made him really bad tempered.
 
our little loan pony has had lami and possible cushings since well before xmas (hes had it on and off for 6 years and has dropped soles)
As hes been so bad in pain and hardly walk and lost condition and been so miserable being in we were thinking of putting him to sleep BUT in the last week and esp in the last few days hes alot happier and comfortable although not 100% sound but can manage a trot and feeling alot better within himself..its great to see him play and buck around..hes been going out for an hour or two with his friends and then he knows hes gotta come in and waits by the gate

hopefully my son can get to ride him again very soon

we've been feeding him happyhoof,prolamin plus herbs,chastetree berry,micronised linseed as he not overweight..needs to put on really
 
Hi Rose Folly glad your horse is on the mend, my horses are kept out all the time so its hard work having one stabled all the time, luckerly he doesnt mind being in, but he might change his mind when the spring comes, hopefully then he can go out for a while, {he does the odd few hours out now in a bare paddock} he is 16 years old, you mentioned you have had cushings horses before how do you manage them, how much time can they spend out side? i ride a lot with mine can he be ridden to the same extent? {luckerly i have one more horse to ride as i would be pulling my hair out by now} oohh so many questions :D
 
Hi Ameeyal. The two Cusings horses we had here did not suffer from laminitis. They had the long curly hair type, problems about not shedding their winter coats properly, and in one case a bad back. So not really quite the same as yourswith the lammy - sorry I misled you.

We used to feed a lot of old fashiioned linseed (i.e cooked from raw) and found it helped their coats a lot. We also used linseed for a laminitic horse and it seemed to help. Sorry not to be more useful.
 
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