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Kazzy
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England
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 Posted - 22 Apr 2007 : 2:24:21 PM
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Jingo it is true, especially this time of year when the new shoots
come through they are lethal!!!!!
A friend of mine rescued 2 little shetlands last year the owner had
had enough of them and was sending them down to Beeston for the sales they both had a history of lami so she has took them on and
its not her fault but she hasnt got a clue about Lami, anyway one
of them has come down with it again, she said she took them of the little paddock with no grass and put them onto another paddock with
grass coming though, she said its not long grass so she shouldnt have
come down with it.
Anyway, I am off to see it later, she is getting the vet out tomorrow, and I am going down loaded with my paperwork from The Laminitis Trust so she can have a read through it.
She loves the 2 little shetlands and unfortunately she didnt quite
understand much about Lami, so I hate to say it but she was ignornant
of the fact that they could get it again. Its not her fault they
havent got it through neglect or anything just that she didnt understand.
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nikki
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Wales
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Posted - 23 Apr 2007 : 12:41:29 PM
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It really is a mine field!
I've turned into a complete paranoid nutter now.
My girls are always trimed every 6-8 weeks, got the farrier out this wed, which will be about 71/2 weeks since last time.
But i am shocked about the state of Kaz's feet, on her front, she has gone incredibly long in the toe-cracks galore-in a right state. All the others are o.k. Apart from Squiff, who's gone back to being a bit Charlie Chaplin(due to previous poor farrier)
I was thinking, he hadn't done a good job, as he was rushing towards the end!
And i am going to have a quiet word with him? I am right to do so?
Some of my girls had white line, it was a nightmare-the farrier told me it was called gravel track, no can't tell me the real name, neither did the rubbish vets i used to have!
I used to pick all the stones out, wash their feet, disinfect etc, plugging it up, which always used to come out. I even wrapped their feet in the silver tape once-bless them. And it took well over a year to get their feet right again.
Another thing i always do, is slim the horses down, i.e lean like Jen has done with her mare. Now reading about diets etc, is this still a good thing to do. |
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honey
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Posted - 23 Apr 2007 : 3:06:35 PM
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| we keep our horses just right we have trouble keeping weight of our half bred youngster and shes only on rationed haylage and exercise. We are still battling with laminitis with our coloured brood mare. we think shes a chronic laminitis and has never not had it but low grade that it didn't bother her til she took a bad attack after foaling in january through the stress and shes still not sound. this is her third bad attack and worst yet. we took xrays and quite a bit of rotation and the farrier is working with her. she is currently out in a field of lush grass shes not fat shes slowly putting weight on as she was too lean, and still lame and still got a slight pulse and on no bute or any medication. I know this is bad for laminatics but in her case it has made her 10 times better at least shes comfortably running around, when in the stable she couldn't walk even to the sand paddock, and her pulse was much stronger and she was on that much bute we were scared of liver damage. As the vet said her lami is not food related at all what she is fed makes no difference but is stress related due to the natural steroids being produced. Her first attack was after steroid treatment for copd and the vet forgot to mention to cut her food right down. second bout was when she got placentitis 7 months in foal and the stress again caused laminitis from the pain ect. out vet and farrier think she will come sounder than she ever has been cause the rotation has been happening over the last 4 years but unnoticed. Her feet was in a bad shape after the first bout but I trimmed her feet bare foot after the farrier failed to correct it with shoes and in a year I had her feet looking normal. |
    
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wheelie
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England
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Posted - 24 Apr 2007 : 11:22:06 AM
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i keep my arab at a yard where the horses are mostly TBs so are battle is keeping weight on especially as we have poor grazing. (though i say poor its short but it does mean that the horses pick the new fresh blades of grass first!)
minHe- hehe this kinda happened to me. my yard all say my mare is huge and too fat (i tend to agree she could be leaner she fed a token feed one of those fresh air girls!)imagine there surprise when i return from a show in hand and they asked where i was placed and what the judge said only for my reply to be "the judge said she moves better than the two above her but she lacks condition and is immature for her age" they couldnt belive it i even asked my vet and he looked at me like i was crazy!! |
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