Robin and Kurt gallop Dec. 26, 2017 (Kurt, the white one, is barefoot, while Robin is in boots; both are bute free)

Post reviewed and edited April 5, 2026: I no longer use Laminil cream, though that doesn’t diminish how well it worked. I apply lots of OTC anti-inflammatory cream when I feel heat on the inside of Kurt’s feet or when his feet get really dry in the summer. See this post for that.

I finally got to try Laminil cream on my horses’ laminitic feet beginning in June 2017, and the improvement was dramatic.

I  used it on my last two horses, both geldings that turned 22 in 2018.

Laminil stopped the laminitis and allowed my horses’ feet to heal in the most extreme of weather conditions, both hot and cold, and in horses that are severely insulin resistant.

Robin Hood was diagnosed with laminitis around 2006, and his feet suffered a lot of damage as a result.

Here were X-rays from his left foot.

Kurt had been plagued by laminitic abscesses since 2010, and his refined body had gotten quite lumpy in subsequent years, revealing his endocrine issues.

Thanks to Laminil cream, both horses stopped getting bute. That alone felt like a miracle. The horses were standing all the time and moving around comfortably, even being playful.

In June 2017, prior to Laminil, they were on 1 to 1.5 grams of bute, primarily to ease pain in their back feet (boots don’t seem to fit the back feet well). Robin Hood (the bay) was uncomfortable even on that amount of bute. In most of his pre-Laminil video, he was lying down and looking miserable.

Pre-Laminil: Robin stays off his sore feet June 7, 2017

Pre-Laminil: Robin walks in shavings June 6, 2017, with 1.5 grams of bute

Pre-Laminil: Robin walks June 8, 2017, with 1.5 grams of bute

Kurt would respond well to bute if he wasn’t on it for long stretches, and he looked fairly decent in his pre-Laminil video on a gram of bute, but photos of his feet told the real story. Ignore the penny in the image below. It was intended as a measuring device, but it didn’t seem necessary in the end.

Kurt’s feet before and after Laminil treatment

By Jan. 27, 2018, Kurt was pasture-sound and barefoot.

Note that the horses were 22 and hadn’t been asked to do anything in years. When I asked Robin to trot, he said, “What?”

Post-Laminil: Kurt walks without any bute on Jan. 26, 2018

Post-Laminil: Robin walks Jan. 26, 2018, with no bute and no boots

Robin Hood’s inside walls had been collapsing for years; those started to straighten out.

Robin’s left medial (inside) hoof wall  is straightening out

Robin’s stretched white line at the toe is healing (this is the right front)