Laminitis Trust Feeds

Emergency diet for a horse with endocrinopathic laminitis feed.

Laminitis trust feeds. The first reason the trust does not recommend feeding haylage further evidence to follow. We have tried to provide you with helpful information if you have a horse or pony suffering from laminitis. This will minimise starches or sugars being fermented in the hindgut that can contribute to laminitis. Time is of the essence in dealing successfully with laminitis.

Laminitis is an emergency condition and you should call your veterinary surgeon right away. Molasses is an ingredient that sparks a lot of debate but it s the total sugar level in feed and its contribution to the total diet that s important to consider not whether or not a feed contains molasses. Laminitis is quite unlike any other equine disease. The chronic laminitis case.

Please click on the boxes below which may be of interest. Delay or doing the wrong things often results in horses having to be destroyed. Consider choosing feeds approved by the laminitis trust but remember that these are not the only suitable options. Steam extrusion improves digestion in the small intestine feeding a steam extruded feed or a feed with a steam extruded component will improve the digestion in the small intestine.

Laminitis is an inflammatory disease of the leaflike laminae that suspend the coffin bone within the foot. However simply adding oil on top of your horse s current feed may the unbalance diet so. 1 5 2 bodyweight hay depending on whether weight loss is needed 1 5 or not 2 so 7 5 10 kg for a 500 kg horse 3 75 5 kg for a 250 kg pony soaked for at least 1 hour then drained to reduce sugars or analysed to show combined sugar starch no more than 10. Don t just read the sales blurb e g.

This can all occur before any symptoms are apparent and once the process has started it is extremely difficult to stop. If weight gain is required oil can be added at up to 100mls per 100kg of bodyweight per day to provide additional energy calories. Hay feed approx. As well as being low in sugar the diet also needs to provide good quality protein to allow damaged hoof tissue to repair as well as meet a horse s.

The purpose of the laminitis trust is to raise money for laminitis research. Laminitis is a complex cascade of events that causes the soft tissues laminae within the hoof to swell weaken and die.