What can you give a pony with laminitis?

Getting the right feed for a laminitic is important for any owner of a horse or pony with laminitis. A high fibre, low starch and low sugar diet is essential for laminitics, so avoid feeds that contain cereals or molasses.

What to feed a pony that has foundered?

Feed grass hay, possibly a little alfalfa hay, or rinsed sugar beet, BUT stay away from corn, oats, barley, and especially stay away from sugar as molasses. Feed extra fat in the form of oil or rice bran if you need to get energy into the horse.

What are high Fibre cubes for horses?

Horse & Pony Cubes SPILLERS High Fibre Cubes are a special blend of concentrated fibres with prebiotics and probiotics to help support your horse or pony’s digestive system. Low calorie and cereal free for good doers, box resting horses and ponies.

How do I stop my pony from getting laminitis?

Fortunately, metabolic disorders in horses can be controlled, reducing the risk of laminitis, with these basic steps:

1. Identify at-risk horses.
2. Treat PPID.
3. Minimize sugars and starches in the diet.
4. Limit access to lush pasture.
5. Manage body weight.
6. Prevent starch overloads.
7. Make dietary changes gradually.

What do you feed a horse with chronic laminitis?

Horses require a minimum of 1.5% of their bodyweight in roughage per day for optimal health and wellbeing. For a laminitic prone horse/pony, low sugar roughage sources may include Teff hay, Rhodes grass hay, lucerne hay, beet pulp or soaked grass hay. Some specialist feed suppliers have analysis available.

What is the best diet for a laminitis?

The basis of any diet for a horse or pony prone to laminitis or suffering acute laminitis is hay. The best choice of forage is one that is low in sugar, starch, and fructans (non-structural carbohydrates or NSC). Ideally, all forage that you intend to feed should be tested for NSC level and be below 10%.

Do you soak horse and pony cubes?

High Fibre Cubes are ideal for ponies prone to laminitis and they can be soaked with warm water for 30 minutes to form a mash. High Fibre Horse & Pony Mix is an ideal everyday feed for horses and ponies in light to moderate work.

Is Fibre beet good for horses?

Fibre-Beet is particularly useful for performance horse, especially those who consume reduced amounts of forage, as it can increase fibre intake without the “bulk” of hay or haylage.

Is high fiber good for horses?

Horses evolved eating a high fibre diet and fibre is still the single most important component in your horse’s diet aside from water. If your horse isn’t getting enough fibre it can be facing serious consequences including colic, dehydration, diarrhoea, ulcers, vitamin deficiency, weight loss and behavioural problems.

Is High fibre feed good for horses?

Fibre sources such as hay, haylage and grass are vital for a healthy digestive system and should always form the majority of the diet. Fibre also provides the horse with excellent levels of slow release energy and a good source of calories and heat as it is fermented in the body.

Is Fibre-Beet OK for laminitis?

Fibre-Beet is a combination of Speedi Beet, alfalfa, oat fibre and Biotin and takes 45 minutes to soak in cold water/15 minutes in warm water. Both products are ideal for horses and ponies prone to laminitis as both are low sugar/high fibre products.

Is Speedi-Beet good for laminitis?

Being starch-free, Speedi-Beet is particularly useful for those horses whose starch intake requires minimising or controlling, like those prone to laminitis or tying-up. It can also be fed as an additional fibre source to good-doers, as part of a calorie-controlled diet.

Can a horse with laminitis eat apples?

One of the first things you are likely to be told, as the owner of a laminitic or EMS horse, is “no treats, no carrots, no apples..”. A grape or prune is sometimes suggested as suitable for hiding pergolide tablets, but owners may be warned not to use a slice of carrot or apple for the same purpose.

Can diabetic horses have apples?

A wonderful way to offer your horse something tasty and nutritious is to feed the peel instead of the whole fruit. Apple, banana, and orange peels, as well as watermelon rinds, cut into bite-sized pieces, have less than 1 gram of sugar per cup. Apple peels are particularly beneficial.

Do horses with laminitis need large concentrate meals?

As most horses and ponies prone to laminitis tend to hold weight easily it is unlikely that they will need large concentrate meals, however, it is still very important that they get a balanced diet, providing all the essential vitamins and minerals for health and well-being.

What causes laminitis in horse hooves?

This is thought to affect blood flow to the laminae in the hooves, possible through Insulin Growth Factor Receptors. Laminitis can also be associated with sepsis or endotoxaemia and this includes grain-induced laminitis due to starch-overload and health problems such as retained placenta.

Can I incorporate Lupin fibre cubes into my horse’s diet?

NEED HELP INCORPORATING LUPIN FIBRE CUBES INTO YOUR HORSE’S DIET? Lupin Fibre Cubes are high fibre, low sugar quick-soaking cubes with a natural prebiotic action for horses and ponies prone to laminitis, metabolic conditions and ulcers.

Are Spillers good for a Lami prone horse?

The tb has baileys high fibre nuggets but I swear I heard that spillers are good for lami prone horses. He cants take too much molasses,happy hoof makes him footy, so have to be careful.