Why is my pony weeing a lot?

[RioSG]

My pony is weeing a lot over the past few weeks. If I bring him in to exercise, he usually does one during the exercise and then one after I put him back out in the field, and two wees in an hour seems quite excessive!

The wee is a good colour (almost clear) and not thick or syrupy, very watery and not smelly at all. There is just a lot of it!

He has just gone onto fresh grass, could that be a cause of it - although its not long or particularly rich? Also he is quite a chubby little chap anyway, could overweight/obsesity be a cause?

He hasn't changed behaviour and doesn't seem uncomfortable in any way, just peeing a lot...

 

[beetlejuice]

i wouldnt worry too much especially if the urine is normal coloured, smelling etc. however, if you are worried take a sample and take it to the vets to do a test on it, just to rule out anything else.
I wouldnt think the grass would make a difference some horses just pee a lot.

My horse pees literally everytime you see him, when he gets a net or feed, gets ready to go out. All the time but he is totally fine!!

 

[TGM]

How old is your pony and does he get any additional feed to the grass?

 

[RioSG]

Thanks Beetlejuice that makes me feel a lot better!

He is approx 5 and no definitely not, he is a right little fatty, I try and keep him on the bare minimum of grass!

 

[Boxers]

Probably is the new grazing causing it.

You should get a tub of Bladderite from your vet (£20). You give one scoop (about a tablespoon sized scoop) each day for 5 days and this will put him right.

Bladderite is basically a powder made from cranberry juice.

I have had 2 ponies with this problem and it was sorted within days once started on the powder.

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

I honestly wouldn't buy anything or do anything. A healthy 5 yr old pony newly moved onto good grazing (beware, laminitis risk!) will be taking in more fluid with each mouthful of grass and so peeing it out the other end. It's easy to get panicked into thinking that suddenly your horse is drinking either too much or too little but 99.9% of the time it's diet/weather/other source of water related. It's always a good idea to keep a record of things like that, plus normal respiration rate, breathing rate, temperature etc etc so that you can spot a problem. With pee and poo you need to monitor over a long period of time, when the horse is on different routines to get a true "average".