Box Rest For Laminitis

April 8 2020 at 8 02 pm.

Box rest for laminitis.

If your horse needs to be confined as part of treatment for laminitis but becomes easily bored and fractious when box rested there may be some things that you could try to provide some additional interest for them. I t really worries me that so often the treatment for laminitis is 6 9 months box rest. Rather than grass horses should have poor quality hay and no or minimal concentrates. Options could include playballs allowing them access to a box with windows so they can see mirrors.

This will help prevent boredom and means your horse. Box rest boredom busters. Can a horse with laminitis go barefoot. Once he got over the laminitis the farrier put clogs on his front feet in march 2019 he was allowed out on pasture timed release with a muzzle until he was out with the rest of the horses from 730am to 330pm.

All acute founder cases should be given a year s rest if they are to be achieve optimal soundness. Acute founder cases need corrective shoeing sympathetically and regularly applied every five weeks. Using small holed haynets such as an elim a net and tricklenet or simply double netting haynets slows down how quickly your horse eats. Laminitis rehab involves months of box rest.

Correct treatment should be. Whilst the horse has painful feet they should be box rested. Yes if the vet and farrier feel that this is appropriate in an individual animal. Thereafter confinment to a yard or barn may be appropriate.

Box rest along with dietary changes are important factors. Keeping a horse on long term box rest can be a challenge. Identify and remove treat the cause which will nearly always be ems and or ppid but you can assume high insulin even if not indicated by tests until proven otherwise. Our equine nursing team share a few tips on how to keep your horse entertained even when on a diet.