A Conversation About Equine Obesity

This week's episode tries to tackle the thorny issue of equine obesity. This is an enormous problem for the UK equine industry and despite huge efforts from equine welfare charities and vets all across the country either our horse owners can’t recognise that their horse is obese or are not motivated enough to take action. Last year at Loch Leven Equine Practice 1 in 5 of all the horses put to sleep was down to laminitis. This figure has almost doubled from the previous year. In this podcast Jane Haden MRCVS joins Liz Somerville to chat through how owners can objectively assess whether their horse is over weight, and discusses some of the ways to get your horse to loose weight.