What do you feed your laminitic horses?

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Just looking for management ideas for a horse who has previously suffered with lami really! My cob had a bout in spring and was then diagnosed with cushings. Our vet has said that it'll be very trial and error finding out what he can and can't eat.

His current routine is 24/7 turnout on an acre with another pony and a shetland (very little and very poor grazing) with 2 x soaked haynets per day and a feed of speedibeet with half a mug of micronised linseed, pro hoof (if I can get him to eat it..) and his prascend in half a carrot.

He got really footy on Saturday so he was taken off the grass in to an empty paddock on just the soaked hay hence the question :).
 
What you are currently feeding sounds sensible, so I suspect the key is not so much what goes in via a bucket or haynet, but what he is getting from his grazing. When we get warm, wet spells of weather like we have at the moment this gives a flush of grass. You can't always see the spurt in grass growth as the horses eat it as fast as it grows, but this is often enough to tip a laminitic over the edge. You have to learn to keep an eye on the weather constantly and restrict grazing in some way when we get warm, wet weather.
 
We have 2 ponies that have had laminitis in the past, when the grass grows (warm wet weather) they are stabled with soaked hay; usually they are out in a 'starvation paddock' with muzzles on during the day.
 
Mine is on a track (well, it's part track part maze :) ) so he has to wander around to get to the water and his feed. He has low sugar everything, beet, soya hulls, plus linseed and minerals (the generic mix from Forageplus topped up with a few that the analysis showed up as very low) and methionine.
If he is still getting footy is his Prascend dose high enough? It is the seasonal rise, maybe he needs it increasing a bit?
 
out 24/7 no muzzle on lawn like grass track fed oat straw chaff a few soaked grass nuts linsed turmeric pepper and salt. he is an acute laminitic with no metabolic involvement. No cushings he is 12hh and shares the track with a highland pony and a fat welshy. the track is about 100 meters long and 3 meters wide and ends at one end in a small square pen with a wall to shelter behind and about a half acre area where the grass is opened daily to give them about 0.5 of a meter wide by about 2 meters long we do not close off behind. So far they look wonderful and have all been sound will add the grass is about .3 of a meter long where it is opened and they have no hay
 
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Mine lives out on a track during the summer months and is fed speedibeet, micronised linseed and Spillers Lite Balancer currently. This will probably change at some point as she goes off everything eventually.
 
What you are feeding sounds good, I echo a previous poster, my lawn has grown over 6 inches in places in the last 9 days, its probably the grass causing your issue.
 
Thank you all, that's very reassuring to read :) He literally had his second blood test four days ago and his results came back fine so hopefully he doesn't need his dose upping though I will mention it to my vet. I really like the idea of having a track, sounds like a good way to keep him off the grass without making him feel restricted!
 
mine are on a track system, and fed hay twice a day.
bucket feed is pure fibre.
the one who has had one laminitic attack goes in a pen during the day with hay and out on the track with the others at night.

restricting grass is the main thing imho
 
Maybe? said:
His current routine is 24/7 turnout on an acre with another pony and a shetland (very little and very poor grazing) with 2 x soaked haynets per day and a feed of speedibeet with half a mug of micronised linseed, pro hoof (if I can get him to eat it..) and his prascend in half a carrot.
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Although mine had laminitis years ago, she will always have to be treated as a laminitic and I feed very similar to you:
Fast fibre (rather than speedibeet), micronised linseed, Pro Hoof and a little molasses-free Hi Fi.
 
Mine is off grass when he's not in work, and is fed just hay. But I have to make sure he gets enough hay as otherwise he gets acidic hind end symptoms that then leads to 'mild' lami attacks. The grass is very much in a growth spurt so as others have said, it might look bare it possible isn't.

Also, a bare field can vary from person to person :)
 
I have 2 big cobs, a Welsh pony and 2 Shetlands on about an acre. They have a mix of grazed down grass and rough grass and hedges. They get a token feed of speedibeet with a balancer in. That's it.
The key to managing laminitics ime, is to keep their weight and feet balance correct. If one or the other of these get out of. Control then we get pulses. A daily pulse check is also important.

I'd be surprised if your cob really need the hay....
 
Safe and Sound with non-molassed s/b. I don't feed soaked hay as my mare would not eat it and it rotted. When I spoke to the Laminitis Trust years ago they told me it was not essential to soak the hay. Currently on bare paddock and strip grazed. Because we have had a very hot and dry summer, mine gets t/o for 2 hours in the morning, then again in the evening when it is cool. In at night. Hay fed in small quantities 3 x day.
 
Thank you for the replies.

HP originally when he moved out to the field after box rest he did not have the hay, however he dropped too much weight after the first week so we added it in :)


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I have 2 big cobs, a Welsh pony and 2 Shetlands on about an acre. They have a mix of grazed down grass and rough grass and hedges. They get a token feed of speedibeet with a balancer in. That's it.
The key to managing laminitics ime, is to keep their weight and feet balance correct. If one or the other of these get out of. Control then we get pulses. A daily pulse check is also important.

I'd be surprised if your cob really need the hay....
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I feed my laminitic Shetland Saracen shape up, fibre cubes and hi-fi lite. The cob gets Saracen essential balancer and hi-fi lite.

Both come in durning the day with dry hay and go out on poor grazing over night. Weight management is a huge part tho and I'm lucky mine are both perfect, altho the Shetlands on the skinny side right now. Touch wood the Shetlands not had a lami bout since I've had her and the cob hasn't had it since last summer.
 
My Cushings mare went a bit footy on Speedibeet. I have taken her off it and she improved within a week. I was very surprised as we have fed s/b to plenty of horses previously.
 
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