doctordoolittle
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My mum looks after my old pony who is 30 years old and is about 14.2hh probably tb x connemara. She had a hard life before we had her at around age 16 (we were told she was 12!)
She did well last summer and went into winter looking good but has lost quite a bit of weight over winter. She has bright eyes and seems fine in herself and with a rug on she looks fine but she has lost weight on her quarters and is starting to look a bit boney. She has a big fluffy coat which hides some of it.
Obviously we are thinking forward and we need to make sure that she gets enough weight on over summer to take her into winter. However if she is looking poor over summer we will not put her through winter
She had a bad attack of laminitis a few years ago and has been managed appropriately since and *franticallytouchingwood* has been ok since, in fact last summer she generally seems to have a new lease of life since moving to friends yard last summer.
She has arthritis and had intermittent lameness esp in left hind a few years ago. We gave her joint supplement called biosynov which seemed to eb effective but she developed severe laminitis at the same time whihc may have been a coincidence but obviously we are wary since then so she has not been on a joint supplement since. Touch wood she has been quite well mobility wise since. Mum sometimes gives her danilon when needed but isn't on it at the moment.
Obviously the grass is going to start coming through soon so Mum is concerned about laminitis so wary about changing anything radically that might also trigger it. Mum has just started her on some baileys top spec cubes thought she may just wait a few weeks until she's been out at grass as well and see how she does and then look at introducing some weight gain feeds if no improvement.
Just wanted some advice on feeds for weight gain that are safe in laminitics. No problems with teeth
She is currently going out for an hour or two on days when weather not too bad due to ground conditions but soon will be out as much as possible when weather improves (fingers crossed) in next few weeks.
She is currently on ad lib hay, gets upto 20kg per day.
2 feeds of:
heaped stubbs scoop happy hoof
3/4 scoop (small size not the big stubbs one) coarse mix
1/2 scoop baileys top line cubes
Pink powder
oil
had thought about micronised linseed as I have some that I gave to my horse last year for coat but he became too conditioned! But not sure if this is ok in laminitis.
Our old shetland (was 42yo when we passed away) used to have teeth problems and we gave him something called gro'n'win that was recommended and that helped him a lot.
have suggested increasing number of feeds to 3 (they always used to have 3 when mum kept them at home) or even 4 but currently can only do 2 due to yard situation but could try if needed in few weeks.
Any ideas?
She did well last summer and went into winter looking good but has lost quite a bit of weight over winter. She has bright eyes and seems fine in herself and with a rug on she looks fine but she has lost weight on her quarters and is starting to look a bit boney. She has a big fluffy coat which hides some of it.
Obviously we are thinking forward and we need to make sure that she gets enough weight on over summer to take her into winter. However if she is looking poor over summer we will not put her through winter
She had a bad attack of laminitis a few years ago and has been managed appropriately since and *franticallytouchingwood* has been ok since, in fact last summer she generally seems to have a new lease of life since moving to friends yard last summer.
She has arthritis and had intermittent lameness esp in left hind a few years ago. We gave her joint supplement called biosynov which seemed to eb effective but she developed severe laminitis at the same time whihc may have been a coincidence but obviously we are wary since then so she has not been on a joint supplement since. Touch wood she has been quite well mobility wise since. Mum sometimes gives her danilon when needed but isn't on it at the moment.
Obviously the grass is going to start coming through soon so Mum is concerned about laminitis so wary about changing anything radically that might also trigger it. Mum has just started her on some baileys top spec cubes thought she may just wait a few weeks until she's been out at grass as well and see how she does and then look at introducing some weight gain feeds if no improvement.
Just wanted some advice on feeds for weight gain that are safe in laminitics. No problems with teeth
She is currently going out for an hour or two on days when weather not too bad due to ground conditions but soon will be out as much as possible when weather improves (fingers crossed) in next few weeks.
She is currently on ad lib hay, gets upto 20kg per day.
2 feeds of:
heaped stubbs scoop happy hoof
3/4 scoop (small size not the big stubbs one) coarse mix
1/2 scoop baileys top line cubes
Pink powder
oil
had thought about micronised linseed as I have some that I gave to my horse last year for coat but he became too conditioned! But not sure if this is ok in laminitis.
Our old shetland (was 42yo when we passed away) used to have teeth problems and we gave him something called gro'n'win that was recommended and that helped him a lot.
have suggested increasing number of feeds to 3 (they always used to have 3 when mum kept them at home) or even 4 but currently can only do 2 due to yard situation but could try if needed in few weeks.
Any ideas?
