Bissen

Exercise to use up the sugar in their blood each day is about all you can do.
Do you ride them at all Rikke?

Nope, and they're all horribly herd bound, so even just taking them for walks is near impossible. It's something I am working on, though. I'd love to take each of them out for long walks a few times a week!

Do you have 2 or 3 Rikke? If it's 2 why couldn't you take both together?
I think we have discussed getting them to gallop around the pasture before & they were sore footed? Or one was lame so neither would move much?
Anyway that's about the only way to use up that extra sugar they are ingesting. The faster they move the quicker they use it up each day.

Four (horses). I would not dare bringing two with me at a time. We live right next to a huge road (highways and other connecting roads). Also, it's not just the one going out alone, but also the others left in the pasture, that get anxious.

I don't think we've talked about foot soreness in a gallop? All except Punto (weak caudal foot; working on it) move fine, and they gladly run around, too.
They (we) take spurts now and then, bucking and kicking too.

I'm planning a different setup of our pasture, so that they will have a loop (as opposed to the dead ends they have, now); I hear that it tends to encourage more movement. The main reason they don't go much out and about right now is due to flies (the things that bite, and aren't attracted/repelled by smell).

Just stopped by the forum today, and wanted to let all know we're still alive and doing reasonably well!

Critters still fat af, but no laminitic episodes (can't be sure of subclinical ones, but I haven't noticed anything) and they all run around, bucking and acting like they weren't all adult horses over 10 (but then again, I sometimes (most times) don't seem like an adult, either... even to myself

Will probably take and post some pictures of all feet.

Good to hear from you Rikke & glad to hear the naggies are all doing well.

We actually just had a nightmarish experience the other day!

While I was at school (2 hours away by public transport), my dad calls. "The horses are out. They're at the local vet. They're okay, but we need you to come home and help get them back home".
I was scared shitless. They had gone out, gone through a HUGE roundabout (connecting to highways in 3 places or so!), and stopped somewhere (there are so many details I don't know!), and someone held them back, called the police, who then called a local vet. The horses were sedated and taken to his horse clinic not too far away.

They aren't trailer trained, so we couldn't get them in - which I honestly didn't expect - and my dad didn't want to pay for sedation again (my dad is a vet too, and knows this equine vet. He ain't cheap, I can tell you that. He's also the kind of vet who'll do surgery on a pet bunny, or treat an animal that is extremely unlikely to make it. Anywho, we couldn't move them that day. Sun was going down, horses were stressed, dad was tired, and so was I. The vet kept the horses for the night, and we went home. We decided to call my dad's sister and walk them home by hand the next day.

That went extremely well though. There's a bike all the way from the vet to the pasture, so we went that way instead of out on the main road.
They don't like bicycles or scooters, so we had to ask people to please slow down as they passed, and about half way home and a handful of bikes passing, they didn't care much at all. They were also all sound on the concrete, and surprisingly also pretty much so on the gravel road to the pasture - mind you, they are kept in soft fields all the time, so their hooves aren't very hardened.

So, that was a complete nightmare, but I was so proud of how utterly cool they all handled the walk home! We also crossed a bridge over a highway, rather narrow (two bike lanes), a rail and the cars and trucks running below. They looked, but were sooooo cool!

I walked with Mei in the back, and we were having our own little party!
I really, really, really need and want and should get working more on their separation anxiety, but it just seems like such a huge project! Going for walks is one thing I'd absolutely LOVE to do with them. I'm not much into tricks and all that, but going out and seeing the world together has always been a dream for me. *sigh*

(I'm having a bad/depressed day - lack of sleep for too long).