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Articles by Kathryn Watts

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• Does this website apply to your horse?

• Does Sugar Concentration Determine Hay Preference by Horses?

• Carb Content on Low Carb Feed Labels

• Laminitis Attack: The First Line of Defense, by Dr. Don Walsh, DVM and
  Kathryn 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

• What kind of forage is safer?

• Is Teff Hay Always low in sugar?

• The Influence of Solar Radiation and Temperature on the Diurnal Fluctuation of NSC in Grass

• Grass in Shade is Lower in Sugar

• Is Old Hay Better for Horses with Laminitis?

• Safer feeds based on Safergrass

• Factors affecting NSC levels in grass

• The signs of laminitis

• Risk factors for laminitis

• Mineral Deficiencies

• Insulin Resistance, Equine Metabolic Syndrome, Cushing's and Cushingoid

• What high risk horses look like
  
• Fit is beautiful! Horses at healthy body condition



• Pasture Management

• When is dead grass safe?

• Founder Fodder Weeds

• What Feral Horses Eat

• High Fiber Does not insure Low sugar

• Managing grazing for 'at risk' horses

• When it's time to give up

• Questions for Researchers

Reviewed scientific articles published in journals or presented at academic conferences by Kathryn Watts

• Fructan, Sugar and Starch Concentrations in North American Grass - Poster, AAEP laminitis Researcher Workshop 2009, Palm Beach

• Pasture Management to Minimize the Risk of Equine Laminitis

• 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?

 

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/.

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