Countermeasure for Equine Laminitis: Carbohydrate Profiles in Feeds and Forages

Speaker: Dr. Bridgett McIntosh | University of Tennessee
Summary: Laminitis is a painful, disabling, common and costly disease of the horse and pony. Both the digestive and metabolic forms of laminitis (commonly referred to as founder) are linked to nutrition. This presentation discusses the most current science based information focusing on strategies to help reduce the occurrence of equine laminitis through the management of nutritionally related risk factors associated with pastures, hays, feeds and the animals themselves.