How common is it for TB's to get laminitis

nelle

nelle

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This is probably a really stupid question. I'm panicking like mad about the spring grass and my pony's weight. He was wearing a grazing muzzle and coming in at night then my kind YO said I could put him in a field with her retired horses, they've been grazing in it all winter so there isn't much on it but Sonny is still wearing a muzzle - I'm so paranoid :rolleyes:

Anyway there are 2 TB's on the farm on lush grass 24/7 and looking very well indeed. Owners don't seem concerned about lami at all. Is this because TB's aren't prone to lami?
 
less so than other breeds - i have a cob with lammy and it tends to be them and the native ponies that are more prone.

but any horse can get it.
 
Any horse can potentially get laminitis and I personally believe that when the bigger horses get it, it hits them harder. I would take sensible precautions no matter what breed of horse I owned.
 
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