Articles on Laminitis and Carbs in Forage by Kathryn Watts
with Support by The Animal Health Foundation
- Laminitis Attack: The First Line of Defense, Newby Dr. Don Walsh, DVM and K. Watts
- When Excess Carbohydrates Create Problems
- Laminitis: on the rise?
- Mechanisms for development of laminitis
- Not all carbs are created equal
- There IS sugar in grass and hay
- How grass is being changed
- Testing for sugar/starch in feeds
- Don't Guess: Test your Hay PDF New
- What kind of forage is safer?
- Safer feeds based on Safergrass
- Factors affecting NSC levels in grass
- The signs of laminitis
- Risk factors for laminitis
- Mineral Deficiencies
- What I feed My Own Ponies New
- Insulin Resistance, Equine Metabolic Syndrome, Cushing's and Cushingoid
- Pasture Management
- When is dead grass safe? (PDF) New
- Founder Fodder Weeds (PDF) New
- What Feral Horses Eat (PDF) New
- High Fiber Does not insure Low sugar New
- Managing grazing for 'at risk' horses
- When it's time to give up.
- Questions for Researchers
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Carbohydrate Nomenclature and Analysis- No Wonder We're all Confused.
The reviewed scientific articles by Kathryn Watts are in PDF format. To view them, Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed which is available free from Adobe.
- A Review of Factors Affecting Carbohydrate Levels in Forage
- Soaking Hay to Remove Excess Soluble Carbohydrate and Potassium
- Unlikely Sources of Excess Carbohydrates in Equine Diets
- Pasture and Forage Management for Laminitic Horses
- Nitrogen Deficient grass is Higher in Non Structural Carbohydrates than grass fertlized with Ammonium Nitrate
- Dead Grass and Weeds may Contain High Levels of Non sturctural Carbohydrates
- Lushness is not a Factor of the NSC Concentration of Grass
- WSC Content of Forages in Autumn
- Nonstructural Carbohydrates in Oat Forage
- Grass Carbohydrate: What grass is Safer? New
Articles by other authors
- Metabolic Syndrome in Horses, Philip Johnson
- Endocrinopathic Laminitis in the Horse, Philip Johnson
- After The Crash- Lessons from Chronic Laminitis Chris Pollitt
Clinical Techniques in Equine Practice, Laminitis edition Volume 3, No 1 Abstracts available at:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15347516
If other authors have science based articles that apply to laminitis please submit for publication in this space. There is far too little information available to people who need to know. Far too much vital information is owned by publishing comapanies where it is only available to people with access to a library that can afford to buy these very expensive journals. Thanks to Elsevier Publishing who allows preprint versions on personal websites for articles they have published. For more information on Open Access for scientific papers, please see http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/
