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Feeding the Laminitic Horse
Topic Started: Jan 7 2007, 01:39 PM (581 Views)
Lord Helpus
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I Visited Candy Mountain and All I Got Was This Lousy Incision
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Hoof Prince
Jan 18 2007, 06:30 PM
Lord Helpus
Jan 10 2007, 08:04 PM

. . . but I didn't join because I only tangentially overlap with Cushings.  I would rather join a laminitis/founder group over there.
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I'm not Coreene, but I have a horse who sank within 2mm of the sole (per x-rays) on both his front feet, he isn't Cushings, he is IR (BTW he's a year from the founder, and is doing well). The Cushings group caters to IR horses, as well as Cushings, and it is one of the best resources available, on feeding horses with metabolic problems of any kind. The founder list is stuck on keeping horses who have foundered bare foot, and while in many situations this might be a good thing, the information is limited to one particular sect of the barefoot movement.

A web site you might want to checkout is www.safergrass.org
The links page is also very useful.

Thanks for the info.

I tried to go to safegrass, but I guess it is moving, so I can't.

I have a question about measuring rotation/sinking. (This may be a DUH! moment)

I have lateral views of Sherman's foot. Do I make sure that they are actual size and then take a ruler and measure between the lowest part of the coffin bone and the sole? Does it matter if the sole has sunk so much that it is a good 1/2" below the hoof wall so the horse would be walking on it (if he was not shod) ? -- Of course I understand that the barefoot people would think that he still should be barefoot, I understand that ALL horses should be barefoot.... :psycho:

And how do I measure the degree of rotation? Do I ass-u-me the coffin bone sould be parallel to the front of the hoof wall or to the sole? Do I measure the deviation from one or the other of those reference points? Do I use a wazzitcalled -- a protractor? It looks like a "D" with the angles along the top.

Thanks for any help anyone can give me. (Or should I go over to the other thread for medical stuff?)
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