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Living conditions Theories and causes Treatment and prevention

The Laminitis coordinator

·4 May 2017

Your farrier convinced you that your horse needs these very special shoes. The vet left you an impressive amount of painkillers, vasodilator and antidiabetic drugs. The homeopath, the biomagnetic therapy practitioner and the acupuncturist promise that your horse will quickly recover,…

Theories and causes

Carbohydrates

·3 May 2017

Several types of carbohydrates (sugars or saccharides) can be distinguished: Simple sugars (monosaccharides) such as glucose (dextrose) and fructose (fruit sugar) Dual sugars (disaccharides) such as sucrose (beet sugar) Fructans such as inulin, levan and oligofructose Complex sugars (polysaccharides), such as starch…

Living conditions Treatment and prevention

Prevention of laminitis

·20 April 2016

Horses at risk Prevention begins with determining whether your horse belongs to a risk group. In that case, all the following information deserves extra attention. Risk groups: Welsh, Exmoor, Shetland and New Forest ponies, cobs, Appaloosas and Icelandic horses…

Living conditions

Potassium

·8 March 2016

By over fertilising for years with both organic and inorganic fertiliser the soil may contain a surplus of potassium. Dried chicken manure especially contains high levels of potassium. Too much potassium in the soil, and therefore in the plant, interferes with the ability…

Living conditions

Grazing muzzle

·18 February 2016

Grass leaf tips contain lower NSC levels. A grazing muzzle helps prevent the horse from grazing the grass lower down. Grazing speed decreases. Food enters the digestive tract more slowly and steadily. The horse can stay out on pasture longer and therefore will get…

Living conditions Treatment and prevention

Soaking hay

·28 December 2015

Water-soluble carbohydrates (WSC), can be partly removed from hay (and beet pulp) by soaking and rinsing. Approximately 50% of the WSC drain out in one hour’s time. Soaking for longer is not more effective. However, rinsing in larger volumes of…

Living conditions

Silage and haylage

·30 November 2015

Silage Silage is grass that has been conserved by fermentation. The grass is wrapped in plastic when the moisture content still exceeds 70%. Silage has a high protein content. The protein is partly broken down to ammonia, which burdens the liver…