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Location: west of East Texas | Does anyone use a grazing muzzle on their pony/mini? Is there a brand that will actually stay on? Are there supplements to prevent foundering in these little jewels? I have a 10yo mini that is getting worse in her tolerance for green grass. I've had her 9 years and it seems like it is getting a little bit worse each year. For the first several years there wasn't any problem. Then in the last few years, I've been able to just keep her up for a day or two when I noticed her kind of ouchy and she'd be good to go for a week or more. Now, it is about every 3rd day to be kept on house arrest. Her feet are trimmed for the condition and she gets a little grass hay to nibble on. She's never had a BAD episode, she's been watched and managed well. I am looking for options other than totally shutting her up for the next 20 years because lord knows she'll live forever! |
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Location: North Dakota | HEIRO is a great herbal product that helps horses in the situation you described. Grazing muzzles can help or allow access only for a few hours at a time. Increase exercise if possible also always helps. |
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Location: Kansas | Are you able to dry lot her? My daughter's pony was diagnosed with laminitis last fall, we have her in a dry lot right now. So far she is managing and seems to do well on dry lot, but if she gets any green grass she will start to limp badly |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Your pony is {IR} Insulin Resistance, google it and you will find good info about it, I have a gelding that is IR and I have to watch his sugar intake in grass, hay, and feed. I have him on Heiro supplement..
Edit to add" I have him on feed that is low in sugar and starch..
Edited by Southtxponygirl 2017-03-31 5:08 PM
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| MidWest1452 - 2017-03-31 4:07 PM
HEIRO is a great herbal product that helps horses in the situation you described. Grazing muzzles can help or allow access only for a few hours at a time. Increase exercise if possible also always helps.
HEIRO has worked great for our foundered horses and ponies |
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2017-03-31 3:50 PM
Are you able to dry lot her? My daughter's pony was diagnosed with laminitis last fall, we have her in a dry lot right now. So far she is managing and seems to do well on dry lot, but if she gets any green grass she will start to limp badlyÂ
EXCELLENT ANSWER !!
When dealing with any kind of pony or mini you have to keep in mind
their digestion is so much better than big horses due to the areas
they have lived for eons on sorry "pastures" they can get too fat etc
just by breathing air..
When you have one that is already in trouble you have to do what
you should have been doing forever.
Feed medium quality hay and no feed of any kind.
Each up and down cycle they go thru, they get worse and never recover
back to being normal when on pasture/hay/feed 24/7 ...
It's kinda like having a fat kid trying to get diabetes .... controlled diet
and turn out in dry lot for exercise ...
Too many good kid ponies have been foundered and died because the
owners did not use caution and tuff love and started feeding them
like regular horses ........... which is a major NO -NO ..
GOOD LUCK .... LOCKEM UP!!
NOTE: I have seen a couple of owners that found small grazing muzzles
that worked with headstalls that had elastic bands sewn into them. It
is tuff to "root" one off that pops right back into place. I think the elastic
bands came off of English or racing girths ..
Edited by BARRELHORSE USA 2017-04-01 7:30 PM
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Location: California | I bought a Cashel muzzle for my pony. He is mostly dry lotted but I wanted to be able to put him in the bigger field and that's when I put it on him. So far he hasn't gotten it off. The only thing that concerns me is I don't know if he's figured out he can drink with it on, so I only put it on for short periods of time. |
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