As grass grows in summer and autumn, vets see more cases of horses and ponies with laminitis ... or to look for insulin resistance or equine metabolic syndrome. Vets often see a rise in cases ...

If you have a good doer now’s the time to put damage limitation measures in place to stop the year-on-year weight gain that can ultimately lead to equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) and laminitis.

When one of my client’s nine-year-old Welsh gelding developed laminitis in December 2021, blood work confirmed equine metabolic syndrome. Kye’s resting blood insulin level was 63.9mIU/L ...