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Possibly. However, the number of Pears the horse would have to eat might be fairly high to cause founder.
An educated guess would be that pears, like apples, would be ok to feed in moderation.
Founder (from eating) is usually caused by an over abundance of carbohydrate/nutrient rich feed that reaches the hind gut and causes over fermentation (can also cause colic) resulting in acidosis and congestion of the vascular tissue in the sensitive lamina of the hoof.
What else can I help you with?
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.
Where can you get prickly pears on horse isle 2?
You can find Prickly Pears on Yellow, Golden, Arid, Amber, and Desert Isles by picking Prickly Pear Cactus.Try checking out "Esroh Legends" for Horse Isle 2 help. They have solutions there. Hope this helps!
Can horses be in a paddock with a pear tree?
it shouldent hurt the horse because they love pears but if they eat to much pears they could become sick with colic. so if you would be willing to pick some of the pears out of the field or not have that horse in the field all the time they should be fine. also if the field is pretty big or you have 3 or 4 different horses they should be fine ;)
What are the signs of flounder in a horse?
Horses don't get flounder, they get founder.
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
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 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.
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)
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.
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.
