I’ve kept one horse with my trainer for years. All of the show horses are under lights 16 hours a day, and blanketed all winter long, too. They keep their beautiful, slick show coats. But, I had one gelding who stayed slick all winter only to get a full winter coat in July, then have to be body clipped. As if to say “you can’t fool mother nature forever”. My horses at home aren’t under lights or blanketed, and get to look like wooly mammoths all our snowy winter long.
Un-insulated steel building with not exactly draft-free doors. On a rise. Broad side faces the prevailing winds. And we get the stupid damp cold.
So imagine taking off your winter coat, putting on your bikini and stepping into an over-sized freezer to do a nice ballet routine. LoL not far from the truth. The way I gauge it is if I can ride an entire ride without peeling layers, and I can peel back the cooler or quarter sheet and not see any steam, the the winter woolies stay on.
Most importantly - I say “few weeks” to make myself feel better. It’s months 
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If you have taken steps to remove or prevent the growth of normal coats the of course you must take steps to replace the protection you removed! I don’t see why this would be a surprise.
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Yes it is a symptom of Cushings. You might want to educate yourself on Cushings but I forgot you already know everything. :rolleyes:
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Not everything, just more than you.
Based on all your posts its clear you don’t. I’m done here - you are NOT worth my time or anyone else’s.
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There’s more to it than just daylight and temperature. With the exception of my weird-coated horse my horses have grown their coats to suit what would be needed for that winter. Less coat in mild winters, heavy coats for cold winters. Twenty-five plus years later I am still amazed and have no idea how their bodies knew in September-December how much coat would be needed for the January-February cold.
The interesting thing is it took both my import and my homebred seven years to start growing the coat needed for that winter. The one with the weird coat is now 11 and while his coat is normalising I doubt he’ll ever be able to match coat to winter.
Toodle-ooo!
Clearly not in this case.
Is there a reason you can’t just ever say “oh, I didn’t know that, good to know”, or “Huh, guess I was wrong, thanks for that”?
You never do, you just ignore the corrections or continue to argue for the incorrect statements, or retaliate with something unrelated.
Why is that?
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Why do you quote out of context? Why do you take a quote that says Lameness is not a symptom of Cushings and say Laminitis IS a symptom of Cushings? That is not a “correction.” That is your mistake. Lameness could be a sign of an abscess or injury. In this situation, Lameness was a symptom of Laminitis for which the horse was at greater risk due to Cushings. But the exact cause of Laminitis has not been identified in any of OP’s posts. Maybe the horse can no longer have pasture, or some other laminitis triggering food.
Being correct starts with reading for comprehension. In OP’s case, you not only need to address the Cushings, you need to address proximal causes for laminitis, which many times involves access to pasture and other laminitis triggering foodstuffs. By ignoring other factors that trigger laminitis, you are exposing the horse to risk.
Now that the horse has foundered, OP needs to manage the Cushings and also be hyper aware of common factors that trigger laminitis and manage the horse appropriately.
