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Founder is the common term for acute (recent) pain and inflammation in the hooves. It is often a result of eating too rich of feed too quickly, such as when a horse breaks into the grain room and gorges on sweet feed. The inflammation causes the sensitive lamina (soft tissue structures that hold the tough hoof wall onto the bone of the hoof) to swell and then become damaged or die. This can result in anything from mild damage to the hoof wall to a complete loss of the hoof necessitating euthanasia for humane reasons.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoThis would depend on what form of Founder or Laminitis the horse has developed. There is Chronic and Acute varieties. The Chronic form can be stable or unstable and will be with the horse permanently. The Acute form comes on suddenly due to certain factors, such as over eating grains or similar. Both forms require Pain management and specialized hoof care. Some horses will do better barefoot, while others will need therapeutic shoes and possibly foam pads to soften the ground. Many horses can experience some relief through cold hosing or icing of the feet. For horses with poor circulation Vasodialation of the blood vessels would be beneficial. Some equine vets can cut tendons, ligaments or remove portions of the hoof to allow release of pressure. There is no 100% cure for Laminitis/Founder.
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∙ 13y agoThere isn't "a" founder on a horse that I know of, but there is a disease called founder, it is also known as lamintis
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∙ 13y agoIt means the laminae has lost its support and has fallen down, putting pressure on the hoof, and will cause a horse to go lame. You can read about what causes founder in the related links.
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∙ 14y agoNO. The horse is lame. It should be either be laid down( off its hoofs) or at least on a soft ground (wood shavings)
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∙ 13y agohorses founder founder is when a horse is left out on grass too long and their foot pushes out
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∙ 9y agoYou cannot get rid of founder (Laminitis) in horses. You can however manage the symptoms and pain associated with it through dietary, farrier, work, and living condition changes.
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Will peanut hay founder a horse?
Any hay can founder a horse, it is not what the horse eats but how much it eats. Some feed can founder a horse faster than others. Peanut hay is one of those.
In Howrse What is Founder?
If you mean a foundie (foundation horse), a foundation horse is a horse that is the son/daughter of Gaea and Ouranous (not sure if I spelled that right). It is a first generation horse. ~eventinglover (my howrse username)
What is a founder on Howrse?
I think you mean foundie - either Newfoundland ponies or foundation horses - someone's first horse, a horse of which parents are gaia and ouranos
What are the signs of flounder in a horse?
Horses don't get flounder, they get founder.
What is Founder that has to do with a horse?
Founder is the rotation of the horse's coffin bone (the bone inside the foot) downward to the sole of the foot. There are several causes, but usually due to excessive protein IE overfeeding). I once had a mare absorb her colt (fetus) and this caused her to founder.
What part of speech is the word founder?
Founder can be either a verb or a noun. Founder as a verb is to sink, as a ship founders, or to stumble or go lame, as a horse founders. Founder as a noun is a person who establishes or begins something, as the founder of a university or the founder of a nation.
What is a flouder in the horse world?
The word you want is FOUNDER (No L in it). Founder is when the sensitive laminae of the hoof begins or completely seperate. Mild founder will lay a horse up for awhile, but severe founder can take a year or more to heal (if it ever does) Many times the cause is illness, high fever and sometimes injury. A lot of horses will founder after colic. Flounder is a FISH
How do horses get founder?
Horses get founder by overeating for a long time (or being sevearly overweight), a sign of founder are if there neck looks like it is falling (fallen crest) if you think your horse has foundered go to the vet immediatly
What type of horse sickness is a founder?
This is an ailment of the feet. A horse can get it if it eats too much. This is a common ailment basically because horse owners are really not aware of it.
A pony that eats too much grass or grain may develop?
Colic or founder. Depending on the symptoms. In horse isles case the answer is founder.
What kind of grass makes a horse founder?
A horse can founder on just about any kind of grass. But spring grass is particularly rich and green. It can actually make your horse's body temperature rise a little. With the occasional exception, most horses need to be monitored closely when on rich pasture of feed.
Who is the founder of the british horse society?
The British Horse Society was founded in 1947 from combining The Institute of the Horse and Pony Club and National Horse Association of Great Britian. There was no single person that founded the club.
