Windgalls-- worth supplementing?

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So my mare has windgalls, little by little she is falling apart, threatened to sell her splint, colic and now windgalls in both hinds :(
Shes not being sold. I have just accepted that I will be poor forever and keep her... Shes too much fun.

Her only supplements are gut balancer after a sand colic last month and biotin. She will go back on pink powder once gut balancer runs out as that what she is normally on.

Fed grass nuts and straw chaff. Gets soaked hay and limited grazing (good doer).

I know global herbs does a windgall supplement is it worth it? Any experiences with it?

I have put magnet boots on over night (shes out) and see it makes any difference over next few days.

My other thought was just adding turmeric to her feed, its in the windgall supplement.

I was always so anti-supplement until I found pink powder and saw such a big difference in her.
 
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I go rid of my geldings front limb windfalls by bandaging with arnica overnight. He got them after an injury to one front leg but they came up in both. They went down gradually then disappeared. This was over the course of a winter though so he was in nightly.

The turmeric wouldn't hurt, you could add boswellia and celery seed as well :) both are very good for swellings and inflammation and joints :)
 
Slight tangent but if your mare had sand colic, its worth feeding something like sand out to ensure this doesn't happen again. Or do the poo check (poo in a bucket, add water, swirl, tip water away and see if there is any ssediment left)
 
Luci07 said:
Slight tangent but if your mare had sand colic, its worth feeding something like sand out to ensure this doesn't happen again. Or do the poo check (poo in a bucket, add water, swirl, tip water away and see if there is any ssediment left)
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She is on a pysillium regime. Basically every three weeks. So one week in a month.


Long story short was at yard. Left for 18months. Came back. Coliced after 5 weeks being back. I didn't pysillium when we left as on good grazing and ad lib hay over a winter on clay. So even though plenty going through her sand still in. Shes a fairly good doer and was out of work so she got porky.

Went into short paddock but always had soaked hay available.

Whats scary is feed companies and some vets are saying 3 monthly. She was at most 9 weeks of no psyllium.

Fine now and back on the regime I used to be on.
 
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