I know two ponies with laminitis. One was caught early but is chronic, the other has a full pedal bone rotation. How big is your horse?
One thing many vets get wrong is they order starvation when in reality you want to make sure your horse is trickle feeding at all times with forage. soaking the hay for 24 hours before feeding takes out all nutrients and becomes safe for laminitics. In terms of hard feed you obviously want to reduce it to almost nothing; around here "safe and sound" is the most popular feed for laminitics as well as sugarbeet obviously. When she goes back onto limited grazing, don't forget to put her in a grazing mask! That way you can leave her out longer which is much healthier.
Erm .... anything else? *lol* Make sure your farrier REALLY knows his corrective shoeing as this makes a huge difference to recovery time. If she's not shod, then then ask your usual barefoot trimmer what he would recommend as she might need boots!
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Date: 2007-10-12 05:00 pm (UTC)One thing many vets get wrong is they order starvation when in reality you want to make sure your horse is trickle feeding at all times with forage. soaking the hay for 24 hours before feeding takes out all nutrients and becomes safe for laminitics. In terms of hard feed you obviously want to reduce it to almost nothing; around here "safe and sound" is the most popular feed for laminitics as well as sugarbeet obviously. When she goes back onto limited grazing, don't forget to put her in a grazing mask! That way you can leave her out longer which is much healthier.
Erm .... anything else? *lol* Make sure your farrier REALLY knows his corrective shoeing as this makes a huge difference to recovery time. If she's not shod, then then ask your usual barefoot trimmer what he would recommend as she might need boots!