Conversations about Laminitis
Jul 24, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min · 9 segments
Robbie Richardson, Mark Johnson, and Matthew Jackson discuss the various ideas around laminitis causes and rehabilitation.
Jul 24, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min · 9 segments
Robbie Richardson, Mark Johnson, and Matthew Jackson discuss the various ideas around laminitis causes and rehabilitation.
Matthew JacksonGuestAlicia HarlovHost
Robbie RichardsonGuest
Mark JohnsonGuestUm, so in terms of, uh, your hoof care, you know, journeys and your, your businesses, do you all see a lot of laminitic cases? Is that something that's pretty common in what you come across? Or what's your main, um, like body of casework that you work on?
I mean, I mean, laminitis f- when I was learning and stuff was predominantly, dare I say it, was old horses.
Um, you know, unless it was poisoning or anything like that, it was, you know, it was, it was never that much of a big deal.
Get down to the vets and do an awful lot of, um, ob- observing others really.
Um, what was interesting through my sh- when I was shoeing in the early days and things, I'm not saying I was the go-to guy, but I did a lot of laminitics, an awful lot.
And, but at the time, the crossover was I was starting to do an awful lot of the sort of barefoot side.
And what the barefoot side was- kind of teaching it and what you are finding out very, very, very, very quickly, um, was actually it was, um, was gut health that, that, that we had an awful lot of issues with.
And also the type of farms we had that they were turning over to, um, horse livery and things like that was predominantly for fattening animals up.
So our climate's not very great because every time it rains, there's a, there's a sugar spurt.
But, but it was interesting doing the barefoot stuff because the first thing that we had to do was try and get a better hoof capsule to grow out.
And very, very early on the use of pre and probiotics supporting the liver, that there became the absolute stable benchmark.
Um, and what you were able to do, you were able to kind of minimize little impacts that the horses were having.
You know, it was part of a package of these, I mean, these guys had to be ridden, they had to be exercised an awful lot, and that was part of the sort of the barefoot sort of journey at that kind of point, you know.
I can remember being invited going down to North Yorkshire, um, with a bunch of trimmers and a bunch of vets and things.
Um, so in terms of, uh, your hoof care, you know, journeys and your, your businesses, do you all see a lot of laminitic cases? Is that something that's pretty common in what you come across? Or what's your main, um, like body of casework that you work on?
I mean, I mean, laminitis f- when I was learning and stuff was predominantly, dare I say it, was old horses.
Um, you know, unless it was poisoning or anything like that, it was, you know, it was, it was never that much of a big deal.
Get down to the vets and do an awful lot of, um, ob- observing others really.
Um, what was interesting through my sh- when I was shoeing in the early days and things, I'm not saying I was the go-to guy, but I did a lot of laminitics, an awful lot.
And, but at the time, the crossover was I was starting to do an awful lot of the sort of barefoot side.
And what the barefoot side was- kind of teaching it and what you are finding out very, very, very, very quickly, um, was actually it was, um, was gut health that, that, that we had an awful lot of issues with.
And also the type of farms we had that they were turning over to, um, horse livery and things like that was predominantly for fattening animals up.
So our climate's not very great because every time it rains, there's a, there's a sugar spurt.
But, but it was interesting doing the barefoot stuff because the first thing that we had to do was try and get a better hoof capsule to grow out.
And very, very early on the use of pre and probiotics supporting the liver, that there became the absolute stable benchmark.
Um, and what you were able to do, you were able to kind of minimize little impacts that the horses were having.
You know, it was part of a package of these, I mean, these guys had to be ridden, they had to be exercised an awful lot, and that was part of the sort of the barefoot sort of journey at that kind of point, you know.
I can remember being invited going down to North Yorkshire, um, with a bunch of trimmers and a bunch of vets and things.
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