Hello Dr T!

In our discussion I mentioned that we used carriage bolts, nuts and washers for our fencing. You asked me to post a few pictures.

Here is the replay of the September 2021 Rounds (held October 4th).

This month’s presentation is on: Feeding the Suckling, Weanling, Growing and Senior Horse.

This is a fast paced review of feeding horses from embryo to senior ages. If it helps, download the pdf to follow and take notes.

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Hey everyone — I just started introducing soybean meal to my horse a few weeks ago. He is currently being fed beet pulp but I am needing a little time to transition him over for logistics reasons. Anyway, he was getting his hooves trimmed today, and the trimmer commented on how amazed she was that he seemed to have laid down such good hoof in…

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Hey everyone! My name is Micah and I am so excited to be joining this group. I learned about the nutrition course from a friend and I am now working on completing the course.

My horse Tiny (17.2 h thoroughbred) moved with me from Colorado to Florida in January and had a tough go of it with the climate change causing a fair amount weight-loss during…

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Hi there. I have three horses here and am excited to see where this journey takes them. I would like to introduce them and their current photos and then hopefully will have some amazing transformations to share in the future!

The first is Reba, the dark bay. She is a 19 yo Friesian X (TB x Perch/Morgan) barefoot mid level eventing mare. I owned her…

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Thank you very much for having me, happy to be here!! “Respect ! *Jamaican accent* ” Been practicing whenever possible despite the lockdowns. I hope to see ya’ll a little later this year if all goes well with my plans, and please tell Melissa hi back for me ! I’ll know more about possible travel dates once I get home and that way I can bring some…

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Hi, my name is Jaxson, I am Jamaican, currently in Trinidad, where I just completed my final year of Veterinary school (YAY). I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science, Equine Management from UMD (2015) and a Master’s in Equine Reproductive Physiology from LSU (2016).

I’m a proud rescue dad and in my free time I enjoy reading, playing video…

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Whew, I’ve done the first steps right. I did hit it with the water trying to knock out any debris, and I scrubbed it with Betadine. Earlier today I irrigated with saline and had to cold hose some swelling below, and wrapped it. Funny how high a horse can lift a hind leg sideways without kicking. He’s usually very good but this one hurts. (Would is…

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So… wound cleaning. Should I add a curved tip irrigation syringe to my collection? Every time I think I have a full complement of first aid “stuff”, the horse gives me a reason to get something else. The good old fashioned hose in this case is a bit too much pressure, or so says the horse.

That’s impressive. Were you struggling to keep to a program before choosing to “say it out loud”? You strike me as highly disciplined with or without accountability.

I’m on a health mission but wondering if I’ll fail after a few weeks.

@Jenny – Thanks and I’m glad you are enjoying them.

I am assuming that the reason the cheek teeth are not affected is because the opening of the salivary ducts are located next to the cheek teeth. When the grain is mixed with the saliva there is a better association between the lectins and the mucopolysaccharides that bind to them. It is my…

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February 11, 2021

It has been 1 week since the launch of this member site and I am so grateful to all of you who have decided to become members! All over the US plus 2 from the UK and 1 from Italy. Hi y’all!

I am on the road for a while traveling to barns and floating teeth so my available time to get in here is less than when I am home. P… Read more

Hi Kerry, welcome from a fellow Brit. 😀

How about the horse’s gut biome as a topic, or a particular aspect of it?

Jenny

Thank you both for your responses. I’m in for the longterm. I have already noticed his stomach muscles looking tighter.

I’m shocked that in all the time I’ve had horses I never new about the BCS or TLS. Between them I have an objective assessment of the amount of fat and muscle on my horses.

I hadn’t knowingly been feeding grain, just a simple…

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thanks!

Horse Systems (Dental EOTRH)

Further to my initial EOTRH question, I’ve managed to track down this photo of my horse’s EOTRH from Dec20 which our tooth technician managed to take. I’d be grateful if I could add to the discussion advice as to how to clean trapped food. It would be helpful to learn the techniques for holding up the upper lip t… Read more

My best advice is to be patient and trust the process. At two months in I think it’s the point that folks are most likely to bale because the fat is leaving and revealing the loss of muscle underneath, and the protein supplementation hasn’t been going on long enough to see the impact it will make on topline. It just takes longer to build mus…

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Hi Everyone,

Really enjoyed reading your intro’s, so in the spirit of the community here’s hello from me….

I’m Caroline, living in Texas. Landed 3 OTTBs four years ago and it is a steep learning curve to amass the collective knowledge but I am loving it. We are wanna-be dressage students but really, I’m not so competitive, I just love ha… Read more

I keep wishing we could find clean dehulled SBM without the errant corn kernels, molasses chunks, food pellets and even cotton seeds that I find in SBM from a variety of mills. I screen the crap out, but it would be nice if we could find a clean source, even better if it’s one that folks could order a bag from via UPS (Chewy and Amazon and Petco s… Read more