11/08/2025
Ned the brumby says we’re in for an early spring! 🌱🌼🌷☀️
Time to start keeping an eye on your laminitis-prone four-legged friends, watch out for those cresty necks, and remember, by the time they become “footy” or footsore it’s too late. Early prevention is the key 🔑
We have already locked off the ponies out of the back paddock where the clover loves to grow, not just for the sake of laminitis prevention, but fresh clover can also be detrimental to non-laminitis affected horses possibly causing colic, diarrhoea, photosensitivity (ie more prone to sunburn and mud fever), hormone imbalance (ie stallion-like behaviour in geldings and disrupted cycle in mares) and head tossing.
Don’t forget our other fuzzy four-legged friends, cows 🐮 can get bloat from too much fresh clover, it causes gas to build up in the stomach and if they can’t get it out fast enough 💨💨 it will literally blow their stomachs up and unalive them.
We are spoiled for choice here in the Canberra area, we have an amazing selection of TESTED low sugar hay available to us to get us through spring (and all year round)
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🌾Canberra Stockfeeds - Powered by Neigh Hay
Don’t forget, you can also soak normal hay to help reduce the sugar if you can’t get your hands on any tested stuff. It’s a bit more work but the pones will thank you. (Well actually they won’t, they will hate you for it 😅, but it’s better than laminitis)
