Yes if the vet and farrier feel that this is appropriate in an individual animal.
Box rest for laminitis.
Box rest along with dietary changes are important factors.
I t really worries me that so often the treatment for laminitis is 6 9 months box rest.
This means at least four months box rest.
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.
All acute founder cases should be given a year s rest if they are to be achieve optimal soundness.
Keeping a horse on long term box rest can be a challenge.
Our equine nursing team share a few tips on how to keep your horse entertained even when on a diet.
Can a horse with laminitis go barefoot.
Acute founder cases need corrective shoeing sympathetically and regularly applied every five weeks.
Whilst the horse has painful feet they should be box rested.
Correct treatment should be.
Rather than grass horses should have poor quality hay and no or minimal concentrates.
How long box rest for laminitis.
Thereafter confinment to a yard or barn may be appropriate.
Box rest boredom busters.
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.
My 16 year old pony had laminitis with slight rotation october 2018.
Laminitis rehab involves months of box rest.
April 8 2020 at 8 02 pm.
This will help prevent boredom and means your horse.