Push to develop test to identify horses at risk from laminitis
A British researcher has received a £42,000 grant to function on developing a diagnostic exam to order horses prone to pastured-related laminitis.
Dr Nicola Menzies-Gow, from the Royal Veterinary College, said some horses together with ponies appeared predisposed to recurrent pasture-associated laminitis. However, in that place were no diagnostic tests that identified at-risk animals earlier the illness occurred, or when their history was unknown.
Developing such a exam would allow preventative administration countermeasures to live on appropriately targeted, she said.
Blood samples convey been collected from 446 ponies alongside no previous laminitis together with these ponies are currently existence followed to run into which proceed to sense laminitis.
By touchstone several potential markers inward their blood together with and then comparison the values betwixt those ponies that railroad train hereafter laminitis together with those that create not, it may live on possible to railroad train a diagnostic exam for laminitis predisposition, Menzies-Gow said.
“When applied to the Equus caballus population equally a whole, this may significantly cut the frequency of, or fifty-fifty completely forbid episodes of laminitis inward predisposed animals through implementation of preventative measures, hence significantly improving their welfare,” she said.
Menzies-Gow said laminitis was an extremely painful status together with ane of the most mutual causes of lameness together with disability inward horses together with ponies.
About 8000 ponies together with horses suffered an astute laid upward on for the offset fourth dimension each year, representing some iii pct of the British Equus caballus population. Many of these animate existence larn chronically debilitated together with prone to recurrent attacks, hence joining Britain’s herd of unopen to 16,000 chronically affected animals, she said.
The grant was made yesteryear the Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF), which final Th opened the query grant procedure for its Norman Hayward Fund.
The fund is restricted to query into the illness together with welfare of sheep cattle together with horses. In the final half dozen years to a greater extent than than £1 meg has been awarded to veterinarian query projects inward Britain.
Fund chairwoman Tiffany Hemming asked potential applicants to mean value most putting their query into exercise when submitting proposals.
“AWF is great to back upward query that nosotros tin run into volition brand a practical deviation to animate existence welfare inward a relatively curt fourth dimension period,” she said.
More information on AWF grants: http://www.bva-awf.org.uk/grants/.
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