Beautiful weather

The first spring grass is very rich and contains relatively little structure. In the spring, the sun produces a lot of sugar (fructan) in the grass during the day, which must be converted during the night into cell walls, among other things. When the nights are cold, sometimes even night frost, nothing happens in the blades of grass. The fructans are then not consumed but accumulate in the grass and are still there the next morning.

When the sun starts to shine the next day, fructans are also produced. This accumulation of fructan ensures that many horses and ponies get laminitis every year.

Laminitis is very painful for the horses.

In sunny weather with cold nights, you should therefore be very reluctant to let your horse graze, especially in the mornings