Box Rest For Laminitis

Our equine nursing team share a few tips on how to keep your horse entertained even when on a diet.

Box rest for laminitis.

I t really worries me that so often the treatment for laminitis is 6 9 months box rest. All acute founder cases should be given a year s rest if they are to be achieve optimal soundness. Box rest boredom busters. Rather than grass horses should have poor quality hay and no or minimal concentrates.

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. April 8 2020 at 8 02 pm. Keeping a horse on long term box rest can be a challenge. Can a horse with laminitis go barefoot.

Whilst the horse has painful feet they should be box rested. Options could include playballs allowing them access to a box with windows so they can see mirrors. 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. This will help prevent boredom and means your horse.

My 16 year old pony had laminitis with slight rotation october 2018. This means at least four months box rest. 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. Acute founder cases need corrective shoeing sympathetically and regularly applied every five weeks.

Thereafter confinment to a yard or barn may be appropriate. Correct treatment should be. Box rest along with dietary changes are important factors. Using small holed haynets such as an elim a net and tricklenet or simply double netting haynets slows down how quickly your horse eats.