Worrying about laminitis

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Eloisee

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Hi everyone
I'm worried that my boy maybe developing abit of laminitis.
He's 19 and never suffered before but yesterday when I asked for trot he was slightly lame. I could feel a slight pulse in his front left.
I've never had to deal with laminitis before but obviously knew about it, but untill it happens to you I didn't get so worked up about it!
He did seem abit tentative to pick up his feet when I got off to check for any stones lodged from the walk up to the ménage
I have my farrier coming out this afternoon to have a look before I call out a vet but I've left him in on a deep bed with half a slice of soaked hay.
He's on a smaller paddock to control his weight anyway as he gets fat off thin air. He has also been coming back into work since I've come home from uni so it's not like he's been left with no work. It's all come on so suddenly.
Is there anything else I can do to control this? Or how to continue to prevent it? How long does he have to be out of work for and when will I know if it has cleared up? He's not lame in walk and my yard owner said he may just be quite stiff as I haven't been feeding him his superflex supplement.
I've also been advised to feed 2 small handfuls of happy hoof with about a tablespoon of epsome salts in?
 
I hope your boy is ok. Sounds like you have done all the right things with bringing in, deep bed.

I would say get vet out straight away if you think there might be lami. It just isn't worth the risk. If it is lami then you will probably need frog supports on straight away.

Fingers crossed.
 
I'm a lami risk first timer (got a *****land as a companion to my TB in November) & I've downloaded a lami app. It was £4.99. You put in your location & it gives you the lami risk for that day, & if it's more than 25%, the dreaded grazing muzzle is employed. Touch wood, so far, so good. The app is also really counter-intuitive - I've found that the days I thought would be okay are dangerous and vice versa.

I also monitor the heat in her feet...once or twice they've been slightly warm, the app has said that it's a muzzle day, I've used the muzzle & then in the eve her feet have been totally cold again.

Might be worth considering as a back-up to whatever else you're doing?

Hope your boy is okay.
 
Very interesting! Will give this a go as a precaution anyway what's £5 when I could have huge vet bills!
All this worry though and farrier came and said not lami, but unlevel in his hoof. He has a slight pigeon toe which we have been correcting since I've owned him however after his recent trim he's not putting whole hoof down in one go. He's putting the outside side down first ?? So different matter all together now!
 
catembi said:
I'm a lami risk first timer (got a *****land as a companion to my TB in November) & I've downloaded a lami app. It was £4.99. You put in your location & it gives you the lami risk for that day, & if it's more than 25%, the dreaded grazing muzzle is employed. Touch wood, so far, so good. The app is also really counter-intuitive - I've found that the days I thought would be okay are dangerous and vice versa.

I also monitor the heat in her feet...once or twice they've been slightly warm, the app has said that it's a muzzle day, I've used the muzzle & then in the eve her feet have been totally cold again.

Might be worth considering as a back-up to whatever else you're doing?

Hope your boy is okay.
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How does it asses the risk? Surely it would depend on the individual horse and the amount/type of grazing, workload, etc.? Just curious as to how it does this.
 
Cortez said:
How does it asses the risk? Surely it would depend on the individual horse and the amount/type of grazing, workload, etc.? Just curious as to how it does this.
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It uses weather data to assess what the grass is going to do in your area .
So it looks the temperature sunlight rainfall etc to judge the what the grass is up to .
 
Eloisee said:
Hi everyone
I'm worried that my boy maybe developing abit of laminitis.
He's 19 and never suffered before but yesterday when I asked for trot he was slightly lame. I could feel a slight pulse in his front left.
I've never had to deal with laminitis before but obviously knew about it, but untill it happens to you I didn't get so worked up about it!
He did seem abit tentative to pick up his feet when I got off to check for any stones lodged from the walk up to the ménage
I have my farrier coming out this afternoon to have a look before I call out a vet but I've left him in on a deep bed with half a slice of soaked hay.
He's on a smaller paddock to control his weight anyway as he gets fat off thin air. He has also been coming back into work since I've come home from uni so it's not like he's been left with no work. It's all come on so suddenly.
Is there anything else I can do to control this? Or how to continue to prevent it? How long does he have to be out of work for and when will I know if it has cleared up? He's not lame in walk and my yard owner said he may just be quite stiff as I haven't been feeding him his superflex supplement.
I've also been advised to feed 2 small handfuls of happy hoof with about a tablespoon of epsome salts in?
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Lost my horse to it and have PM'd you a link which might help
 
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