What To Perform To Avoid Navicular Disease In Your Horse

By Ida Dorsey


There are several illnesses that can totally hit your horse and affect its performance. You can just see him or her one day sitting because of deep pain. It can be very devastating in the part of the owner of course. One can also notice his performance getting weaker and weaker along the way which can also be bad.

Some of them may not be able to realize it right away but other can see their unwillingness to cooperate and to move. The animal may also keep on stumbling and all. The animal once did great so there could be a big problem. The common complication is called navicular disease in horses. This condition will give them high level of pain.

The horse will usually feel a burning pain because of the flow of the blood in its hooves and can eventually change the coffin bone. For you to know if she is suffering from the disease, you need to study it first by knowing the signs and other symptoms. One cause of this is failing to trim his hooves frequently.

The act of trimming it must be done correctly to avoid any complication and any sign or symptom of the disease. Not performing well may also result to the wrong growth of his hooves. It can grow or wear based on his footing which must be totally kept on all the time.

Their bone can become immobile and can also cause poor blood circulation. The condition can happen only in the front feet which can eventually affect the other feet. Horses are at higher risk especially if they are kept on high stalls and have higher demand such as being overweight and all.

All breeds are prone to have this type of condition especially those that have smaller feet proportion. The overall disease can be identified usually to younger ones. Even if the horse is still young, he can still experience it when not living a good lifestyle. Exercise must be done all the time to ensure that everything will be great.

To get rid of this problem from occuring, you need to know what to do to give your animal a healthy life. The disease will usually strike when you fail to help them in the process. You have to avoid giving too much food without exercise. Everything must be balanced well to have the best treatment. It is also applicable for those horses used in shows, races and so on.

This condition may happen gradually but it can cause continuous lameness. It is indeed difficult to detect the sickness during the early stage as it will just worsen given the time. You will only find them suffering from high pain and lameness which will be determined earlier.

The correct way is to keep them healthy all the time by providing good food and letting them walk or travel with you. You need to ride them of course as one way of exercising. Let them live a better life by being a responsible owner as well.




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