laminatic

[boodle]

will a grass muzzle help a laminatic horse?

[Clanad]

Laminitis, I'm sure you know, can be either chronic or acute.  If acute, it can be caused by over ingestion of green grass or perhaps grain.  If it is acute, your veterinarian will recommend, among other things, keeping the horse in the stable, bedded with a lot of straw to provide a soft surface to walk on.  If the condition is of a chronic nature, that is having had the condition previously, a grass muzzle may be of some help to control the carbohydrate intake... especially new green grass.  In both types of cases, it's unlikely the horse will want to walk very far, which will limit their intake as well. Keep an eye on the prominent display of hoof rings as an indicator, over time, of how well the horse is recovering and control the weight of the horse...  Best of Luck!

[Noweia]

For chronic laminitis, and to prevent the occurence of laminitis in the first place, restricted grazing can help (especially grazing of fresh spring grass) - either by use of a muzzle, by mowing the grass in the paddock to keep it short or by restricting the time the horse or pony is out at grass. As Clanad says, a laminitis horse won't want to walk far anyway, but you should restrict grazing in some way or another!

[Casualtybabe]

bloody hell!!!
I wish I had found that out sooner, I have just had to give up on a horse that was laminatic because I could never go up to him because he was on the other side of yorkshire to me and I used to go with a friend to her horse, I didnt actually own him, but I was his carer, the owner had him out on the fields where he was grazing on fresh land every day, but they were cutting down on his feed instead, thanks for making me realise