Anti Laminitis Feed. Laminitis is quite unlike any other equine disease. 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. Treating these horses involves a combination of many alternative and complementary modalities including acupuncture herbs homeopathy and the most important of all nutrition.
Laminitis as a condition is not fully understood by scientists and vets. Horses with laminitis need high fiber low carbohydrate diets.
In lay terms this is known as founder from the maritime term meaning to sink.
Treating these horses involves a combination of many alternative and complementary modalities including acupuncture herbs homeopathy and the most important of all nutrition. Laminitis as a condition is not fully understood by scientists and vets. In advanced laminitis the coffin bone becomes detached from the horny wall and may rotate or sink. Fortunately in the last 10 to 20 years there have been great strides in understanding the causes of this terrible condition.
