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Location: Bama | I was going to put my laminitic mare on a ration balancer. My local coop has triple crown 30. However, it contains 750ppm of Iron. Everything I've read says to avoid iron. I do want something with copper, zinc, and magnesium. It also needs to be low sugar/starch and low fat.
Any suggestions?
She's only getting a small amount of soaked alfalfa pellets with a hoof supplement twice a day at the moment. I've started throwing hay out about a week ago, and she's getting sore again. So today I'm going to make them stay in the stalls to eat their hay. I gave her one flake of grass hay (Bahia) from the fall cutting. She's a super easy keeper and has always been on the fatter side.
Edited by palominopaintlover 2015-12-07 1:27 PM
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  Whack and Roll
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Location: NE Texas | Here are a couple of interesting articles to read. Dr. Schell can help you get this condition under control!
https://www.nouvelleresearch.com/index.php/articles/315-laminitis-in-the-horse
https://www.nouvelleresearch.com/index.php/articles/376-easy-keepers-metabolic-syndrome-and-lameness-what-is-the-connection
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Location: Bama | Thank you for the links. I'll check them out. I've got to do something for my poor girl! |
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Whack and Roll
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Location: NE Texas | I promise you won't regret it! This company and Dr. Schell saved my horse's life after we'd exceeded all medical options, spend thousands of dollars, and was advised to put him down. In 2 weeks I had a different horse and in 30 days I was back to hauling him. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Do you know what is causing the laminitis? If she is an easy keeper, you might check into insulin resistance. I was told to keep horses with laminitis off alfalfa. |
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Location: Bama | I have strongly considered this as a possible reason for her lameness issues this year. She did have rotation in one front foot that is correcting itself with frequent trimming. I was going to try switching her feeding regimen and treating her as if she is IR. I don't believe my vet would tell me to do anything different than my current plans. He has asked me more than once why I haul my horses up to his place (uh, I need the meds lol).
I've actually been doing lots of reading on IR the past few days, and believe it or not, alfalfa is a better choice of hay. Even though it has a higher total energy content, it is from digestible protein and fiber and has less sugar, starches, etc. (at least that's what about 5-10 different articles stated).
Edited by palominopaintlover 2015-12-07 2:52 PM
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | palominopaintlover - 2015-12-07 1:50 PM I have strongly considered this as a possible reason for her lameness issues this year. She did have rotation in one front foot that is correcting itself with frequent trimming. I was going to try switching her feeding regimen and treating her as if she is IR. I don't believe my vet would tell me to do anything different than my current plans. He has asked me more than once why I haul my horses up to his place (uh, I need the meds lol). I've actually been doing lots of reading on IR the past few days, and believe it or not, alfalfa is a better choice of hay. Even though it has a higher total energy content, it is from digestible protein and fiber and has less sugar, starches, etc. (at least that's what about 5-10 different articles stated).
I thought that unless they had laminitis? I'm not positive, but we just bought a gelding for my oldest son that I highly suspect is IR. He gets very obese, with fat rolls on his fat rolls. So we have full intention of keeping him in the corral on grass hay and off the pastures until the grass starts to turn. He is 14 and hasn't had any issues with founder/laminitis as of yet. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Remission is a good affordable alternative for laminitic horses. |
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