What do I do with pasture horse with founder problems .?

Answer 1

Keep it in a dry lot and feed mostly hay with little to no grain. If you don't have a dry lot, then try going to a farm supply store. You should be able to find something there to construct a temporary fence. This way, your horse may still get some grass but it will all eventually die off, thus creating a dry lot. Keep the horse in there for as long as your vet says.

Answer 2

You should keep the horse on a low protein diet, watch their weight, and keep them off grass and grain. Horses that founder once are more likely to founder again, so you have to be very careful. If the horse is foundering right now, you should pack their hoof with ice clay and wrap them up. This will pull the heat out of the foot, and make the horse more comfortable. I use a baby diaper and duct tape to wrap the hoofs, and i would do it at least once a day for both front feet. You should also have a credible farrier come out and give you a consultation. A good shoer can really correct a lot of the problems founder causes, and make your horse more comfortable. The shoer wont be able to really fix everything, but he can make things a lot better than they are. As other people have said, putting your horse on a dirt lot with no grass is the best option, but if your horse is going to be eating off of dirt, make sure you feed sand clear every month so that they arent at risk for sand colic.

Answer 3

Has the horse foundered recently? More info would have been helpfull but here it goes. If you are worried about the horse refoundering I have one word for you. GRAZING MUZZLE!!!!! Do you have access to a stall or a dry lot? I'd have it locked up more hours in the day then less. A good 8 hours grazing muzzle and the rest spent in teh stall or on a dry lot with grass hay or timorthy but nothing with alfalfa. The sun, drought and frost is dangerous grazing times. My mare has foundered in the past acutely but it was mechanical founder. That means her heavy body mass made her founder. Very heavy on her forehand. I live in MD and just recently took her muzzle off about two weeks ago. She is pastured in a 1 acre field and locked up in a dry paddock at night with hay and a stall to keep her from 24 hr grazing. Theres lots to take in consideration and without you saying much about your schedule with your horse and its routine I can't help much by telling you the best method to keep from refoundering. If your horse has just foundered, stall time only with deep sawdust to stand on. Trimming is done more often then a non foundered horse. Keep checking the pulse in there feet. Turnout should only be on soft ground and just enough time out in small paddock to clean stall properly and put back in.

Answer 4

I personally would put any foundered horse in a dry lot, away from any kind of grass..

Answer 5

try putting it in a paddock where this only a little bit of grass that has dryed out and hose it legs of because foundering make the legs heat up and hurt and that is y they don't move around and try getting him moving about

Answer 6

I even have horses myself, and that i dont think of that that ingesting the blackberries is a sizable deal. the horses would be greater fascinated contained in the grass. even with the undeniable fact that, the thorns might reason a brilliant quantity of cuts and scrapes on their legs or noses, so which you should to fense them off. lots of the timber are great, yet you will possibly desire to definately make the hemlock out of horses attain. and if any acorns fall to the floor and are eaten in super quanities, they might nicely be risky, so shop that in the time of recommendations.

Answer 7

put them on a dry lot. Our horse was super fat when we got her we put her on a pasture that was pretty much all finished but she could still find little bits to eat so she could still graze natually

Answer 8

Sorry but you need to be a bit more specific....