Laminitis- Beware when grazing dried-off grass pastures.

Studies have shown that in a good season, regular showers of rain and wet weather periods, falling on stands of dying and drying grass, particularly ryegrass and other high producing winter/spring grasses, actually leaches out the sugars to make the dry grass less likely to trigger an insulin surge.

During a summer drought period, this leaching effect from regular rain does not occur, and strands of dry grass can cause a risk of laminitis to grazing horses and ponies.

Courtesy of John Kohnke
www.kohnkesown.com