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If you share your life with a good-doer, a pony, or a horse who's had laminitis before, you already know that feeding them feels like walking a tightrope. Too much of the wrong thing and you're courting a flare-up. Too restrictive and you're left with a hungry, stressed horse and a gut that isn't getting what it needs. I feed for this balance every single day, in my clients' horses and in my own. The truth is that feeding a laminitis-prone horse well isn't about starving them

There's a certain kind of dread that comes with the first flush of spring grass. If you have ever nursed a horse through laminitis or watched anxiously over a good-doer who looks a little too round and a little too cresty, you will know exactly what I mean. I watch my own horses closely at this time of year, because while spring is beautiful, spring can be dangerous for those of us with laminitis prone horses and ponies. The good news is that laminitis is far easier to preven