Laminitis app

[joellie]

I use the laminitis app and this is the first time this year it has went off the scale so to speak..it must be this very hot, dry weather. So everyone just be extra cautious with the grass and our lammi prone ponies.

 

[Trewsers]

Wow!
How does it work then? OH is very interested.

 

[Jessey]

I have the app too, its was off the scale all the time over the winter and is again now, they say anything that stresses grass will push the sugars up, frost and flood and drought will all do it

@Trewsers they monitor the local weather conditions and use that to predict the rise and fall of NSC's in grass, its by no means specific to your field and doesn't give NSC level in any kind of figure (just as the picture above, red/amber/green) but it does give a good guide of times to be more warey

 

[joellie]

Wow!
How does it work then? OH is very interested.

@Jessey gave a great explanation I have brought my boys in a bit earlier than usual this morning. So they are in with some hay, probably also glad to get away from the cleggs..well Marley is anyway.. I felt both of their feet for heat and checked their pulses when I brought them in but all was well, thank goodness. Marley has broken into the middle section 3 times in the last week so I got a newly recharged battery put on last night and actually got around to attaching the solar panel I got a few months back and he was still on the track this morning

 

[joellie]

At least it's coming back down into the safer zone now.

 

[Trewsers]

That is good.
My friend's horse went down with lammi two days ago
I am being extra vigilant even tho ours are not prone.

 

[joellie]

That is good.
My friend's horse went down with lammi two days ago
I am being extra vigilant even tho ours are not prone.

I think its always sensible to be vigilant even if a horse is not prone,the way I see it is all horses were not prone prior to getting their first bout of it!

 

[lauren123]

I think I shall continue to strip grass the boy at half a foot a day

 

[lshort5]

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