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Can I feed carrots for my horse has laminitis?

For horses prone to laminitis should you try to reduce feed types that are high in starch (oats, barley, corn and mixtures thereof), and feed types that contain sugar. Carrots contain about 600 grams of sugar per kg of dry material. However, the carrot consists of 88% water and 12% dry material. Ie one kilograms fresh carrot provides approximately 72 grams of sugar. Our answer is thus: A few carrots a day will not hurt, but you should keep the amounts for one kg per day for an ordinary high horse if it has problems with laminitis.