What To Perform To Avoid Navicular Disease In Your Horse

By Ida Dorsey


There are a lot of mysterious diseases which can fully affect the performance and health of every horse. You might be working on the barn one day and find that your friend is suffering from great pain, sitting on the haunch and looking so pitiful because of high pain. One can also notice it when riding the animal and spending time with him.

Some will not realize it totally but others can determine especially if the animal is not willing to move, stand and to be with you. If this is usually not the attitude of your friend then realize that something can be really a problem. The problem is commonly known as navicular disease in horses. This can totally give him much 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 trimming must be performed well to avoid the complications and the various signs and symptoms of the sickness. Not doing it can result to abnormal growth of the hooves. They can grown as well as wear based on the footing which the animal can just keep on.

The bone will surely become immobile as well which can cuase poor circulation of blood. This condition will usually start in the front feet which can later on affect the other working parts as well. The horse has higher risk of it especially if he is kep on higher stalls which can give high demand of overweight and all.

Quarter breeds for instance may be proned to this type of disease and some Throughbreds which has small feet proportion. The sickness is also identified to be common among young animals. Even if she or he is still young, it is possible to happen.

To completely avoid it, the owner has to know what to do to keep him healthy and save him from so much pain. It can definitely happen when the owner fails to take good care of his horse. You need to feed him well and walk him as a way of exercising. Healthy lifestyle should be part of the overall treatment. It could also happen for those horses that are intended for race, show and sale.

The condition will happen gradually but can also cause severe lameness. It surely can be difficult as well to fully detect it during the early stage because it can totally worsen. You have to avoid letting the animals suffer from much pain which needs to be determined at the early phase of the problem.

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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