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Discussion on Nutrition of yearling warmblood colt after OCD surgery.
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cathyb1
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Posted on Monday, Jan 29, 2007 - 1:24 am:
Hi Dr. O. I have been reading all I can about OCD, and have found your website very useful. Thanks for that!
I have a 13 month old warmblood colt with 2 OCD lesions on the near hock. I only acquired him recently from the breeders. He has never been lame, in fact moves marvellously, and is very well bred, which is why I took the chance with the OCD. The OCD was detected after a bog spavin was noticed on the hock during a vet check, for a sale which fell through. The bog spavin has reduced almost completely prior to the surgery. He is having surgery on the joint tomorrow, and my vet is pretty confident that the lesions that showed up on the Xray were not on weight bearing surfaces, and assuming that there were none hidden from view in the Xray that turn up in surgery, they feel he has a very good chance of a full recovery. I want to use him for dressage if all goes well.
My question is this: what should I be feeding him from now on? I am in Southern Australia, and we are currently experiencing the worst DrOught in many years. Because of this, there is no feed in the paddocks, and so we are hand feeding everything. I have been feeding him a mix of oaten chaff and lucerne chaff, pellets for breeding horses (high protein), a vitamin supplement, barley straw, clover hay and cereal hay. There is a lot of grain in the straw and the cereal hay, which I am feeding only because that is what we grow on our farm!
Should I start him on a joint supplement ie glucosamine, etc? Should I stay away from grains? What about feeding high protein grains, like peas and lupins?
Lots of questions - I look forward to your response.
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DrO
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Posted on Monday, Jan 29, 2007 - 11:46 am:
Welcome Cathy,
you must have missed the section on treatment as most of your questions are answered in the treatment section. Perhaps it is not clear that following surgery, conservative therapy should be instituted also, so be sure to reread that section.
Concerning evaluation of the diet, there is only a limited amount I can do since I cannot examine the foodstuffs which can vary considerably in quality. We give specific information on feeding growing horses and in there is a subtopic on OCD. I have provided a link from the Treatment / Nutrition subtopic in the OCD article to that article. It should help you greatly and you will find within these articles links to help you evaluate your foodstuffs.
DrO
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leslie1
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Posted on Monday, Jan 29, 2007 - 2:22 pm:
Hi Cathy, I too have an OCD baby. I wish you the best 
leslie
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