Howdy Advocates! This post is to announce the July Ask Doc T Anything Zoom meeting.

Date: Monday November 14th 2022
Time: 8pm Eastern Time Zone
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88476495052

If you would like to submit your questions or ideas for discussion in advance for Geoff to do some advanced research, please comment down below or send it to… Read more

I have worked on or visited horse farms since 1973. Over these 49 ½ years, I have seen and learned many tricks to make things better for horses and humans while also learning the pitfalls of poor thought, design, and safety.

The subject of managing horse pastures covers a lot of things. These include:

• Pasture types – grass, legume.
• Pastu…

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Question #1 (0:00) Cause of a swollen head.

Question #2 (8:17) Dentistry in a 30-year-old horse.

Question #3 (22:58) Soybean meal testimonial.

Question #4 (27:09) What is dysbiosis in horses?

Question #5 (32:30) Adding oil to the feed of horses.

Question #6 (36:17) Where do horses get their fat?

Question #7 (45:09) Do horses have enough bile… Read more

Leadership For Horses is the preferred terminology for Horsemanship for several reasons:

• It implies that horses are animate objects, like humans, with thoughts and feelings, wants, needs and desires.
• It classifies the position we want with horses as a relationship.
• It describes this classification as a leadership role.
• It defines…

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Question #1 (1:00) Soaking hay in the winter with below-freezing temperatures.

Question #2 (10:16) Lupins and micro lupins for feeding horses.

Question #3 (18:17) A horse that normally sweats suddenly stops sweating.

Question #4 (21:10) How do you feed a 2-year-old in training to become a regular riding horse?

Question #5 (31:33) A 31-year-old… Read more

Inflammation In Horses – The August 2022 Rounds With Doc T

Inflammation in humans has lots of studies. This Rounds With Doc T will cover what is the inflammatory process as we understand it in humans. I will describe acute versus chronic inflammation and local versus systemic inflammation. Where needed, I will add examples of diseases seen in… Read more

Timestamped questions:

Q1 – 1:05 – Do young Thoroughbreds have dental conformation issues?

Q2 – 7:12 – Is there a rechargeable battery fan for use in a shed?

Q3 – 11:00 – Why would a horse eat his stools (coprophagy)?

Q4 – 20:52 – Moving from Florida to North Carolina Mountains – Any suggestions on acclimating the horses?

Q5 – 24:43, then… Read more

“Antibiotic Use In Horses”

Date: July 25th, 2022

I forgot to record this one. Instead, I have written out what I said below. Thank you for understanding. Doc T

The title of this is “Antibiotic Use In Horses,” but to begin with, this requires a different approach. Rather than assume that all bacteria are bad, I want to discuss what bac… Read more

A lot was asked (not in order in the video):

1. What are soybean hulls and are they OK to feed?
2. What is sugar beet pulp and is it OK to feed?
3. My barn manager doesn’t like this diet and is telling me that I need to feed grain or I’ll be asked to leave.
4. What is vegetable oil and should I feed it?
5. Blue Seal is the only company…

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Hay is last summer’s grass. It is a relatively new supplement and could also be called the original nutritional supplement. The purpose of hay is to add calories to the diet when winter is hard on horses due to lack of food.

Adding hay to the diet was to sustain life in the winter months when no pasture was available.

Adding hay when there is n… Read more

The June AMA was a success, with many attending and asking great questions.

1. A discussion of what therapy riding horses go through when working. It is a tough mental job requiring some skills beyond the lives and abilities of horses living in a non-stressful environment.
2. A question about the microbiome of the gut and the effect that…

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May 30, 2022 Rounds with Doc T on “Construction Of Horse Stalls”

>>The Adjustments we made for the previous meeting seemed to work well; please continue to give us feedback if this method of joining the sessions is an improvement for you. <<<

Be sure to download the pdf below to follow the links I went to on the website. Alternatively, her… Read more

I just got to the end of my driving for the day as I started this AMA. I am in my car and the sun is going down. Please understand that as the sun darkens the exposure of the camera darkens too. I adjusted for this compromising the beginning (overexposed and very bright) to the end (underexposed and dark). Ah, life on the road.

We cover the… Read more

Here is the replay video:

The journey of how to feed horses correctly started with the epidemic of suspensory ligament disease. The suspensory ligaments are part of the group of tissues called the connective tissues. The dictionary describes this as tissue that connects, supports, binds, or separates other tissues or organs, typically having… Read more

Colic is the word that describes any pain coming from the abdomen of the horse. The organs causing this pain are usually the intestines including the small intestines, the cecum, and the colon. It may also include the stomach, the kidneys, the spleen, the ovaries, and the uterus, or any combination of these. When any of these are not working… Read more

Here is the replay:

The questions:

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I personally believe that  the kind and shear volume of toxins getting into our horses today is a huge problem and main ingredient in many health problems we see today.  If this is indeed true, then, we need to, 

1. Reduce the toxins going into our horses, and 
2. Get the trapped toxins inside the hor…

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The brain of the horse has been dissected and analyzed but how does it really work? Behaviorists have looked at how horses use their brains and trainers have applied their theories for decades and even centuries. We can read the materials available to us all from veterinary textbooks to current comments on social media videos.

Have we found the… Read more

reserved for questions list.

Tonight we discussed soybean meal answering several questions (how much can I increase per day, should SBM be fed only to older horses, is there a concern with GMO or is it affecting hormones, other sources of protein, and a few more) and protein in general (a brief review of the cause of protein deficiency, mitochondrial flexibility).

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CAN HORSE OWNERS BELIEVE THE HORSE SCIENCE?

I created the new word “complexicate” which means “to make something more complicated than it needs to be in order to make the person (idea, issue) look more important than they really are.” Tonight’s discussion is how horse science has complexicated the caring of horses.

Horse owners are bombarded… Read more

Howdy Advocates!

Here is the replay of the January 2022 AMA:

Hey everyone!

Here is the replay for December 2021 Rounds With Doc T – “The Skin Of Horses.” Recorded Monday January 3, 2022.

We all see the skin, yet we all see the same thing and wonder what to do about it. The first thing to do is correctly identify what we are seeing and then discover the treatment that works. However, I look at this a bit d… Read more

Hey everyone!

Here is the replay for November 2021’s Rounds With Doc T – “Equine Dentistry Seen Through 75,000 Floats” Recorded Monday November 29, 2021.

Be sure to download the pdf below to take some notes on. Also, leave your comments in the replies below. Thanks for watching and engaging! Doc T 🤠

Hey everyone!

Here is the replay for October 2021’s Rounds With Doc T – “Preparing Your Horses And Your Farm For Winter Cold Or Summer Heat.” Recorded Monday November 1, 2021.

Be sure to download the pdf below to take some notes on. Also, leave your comments in the replies below. Thanks for watching and engaging! Doc T 🤠

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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Here is the replay of the August 30, 2021 Rounds with Doc T “Horse Fencing, Gates, Maintenance And Safety”

There are so many types of fences and fence gates and latches used that I have come across. This was a discussion of basics that can be applied to make these as safe as possible for horses while keeping maintenance and… Read more

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Here is the replay of the July 2021 Rounds With Doc T, “Trailering Horses – On The Road Again.”

Some of you may know Doc has some experience behind the wheel, moving horses around the country in just about every type of vehicle there was to move them. If you ever had any questions about how to get your horse from A to B safely… Read more

Here is the replay of the June Rounds with Doc T “50 shades of red and black. Just how do horses get their Chestnut, Paint, or Bay coat?

Understanding how horses look the way they do is based on genetics. I attempt to simplify the view of coat color and patterns in an organized way. While all is not fully known about the complex variations,… Read more

It was great to have everyone join us that could make it to the live meeting – “Fat and physics – 2 causes for soft tissue injuries in horses.”

There is an increase in soft tissue injuries in horses (ligaments and tendons). This seminar discusses the role of fat in two ways. The first is fat’s role in inflammation and resorption of proteins n… Read more

Don’t worry you are in the right place 😀 But if things are still confusing let us know what we can improve. We do have limitation on what the software is able to do but we are always working on making some improvements in the background.

This topic was a deep one and I think it will be a good one for continued discussion, glad you enjoyed it!

Should Your Horse Be Turned Out On Green Grass?

Listen to Doc T’s latest Horse Talk episode #5 of The Horse’s Advocate podcast by visiting https://sandbox.thehorsesadvocate.com/podcasts/ or searching on your favorite audio platform (Amazon, Apple, Audible, iHeartRadio, Spotify and more!)

Let us know what you think down below 😀

It was great to have everyone join us that could make it to the live meeting of “The Ins And Outs Of Fat.”

The movement of fat in the form of Free Fatty Acids (FFA’s) and triglycerides (TAG’s) throughout the body passes in and out of the body fat cell freely in a normal and healthy horse. I describe this arrangement and how a continuous supply of… Read more

Hey Jenny yes it was, I just updated the link 🙂
Let us know what you think once you have a chance to watch it

It was great to have you join us for this month’s Rounds With Doc T on EOTRH ( Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis ) If you missed the live meeting don’t worry you can watch the replay and join the discussion below.

Equine Odontoclastic Tooth Resorption and Hypercementosis (EOTRH) is a new disease of horses affecting the… Read more

Oh wow good catch! I Accidentally grabbed the wrong link, I just edited and fixed it. Should be all set now 😀

Oh that is cool Jenny, I love TED Talks myself I will have to see if I can find that one.

Oh no that sounds like quite the show😅 Glad you able to catch it later on recording and hopefully the next one you can have a more relaxing time joining in live 😀

Hey Advocates! Issue 3 of the Horses Advocate Journal is now online!

https://indd.adobe.com/view/7bd629f3-5c6b-41d2-bcfb-f09295344ce1

Physical copies will be mailed to members shortly!

Glad you enjoyed it! Once you have watched it again feel free to ask any questions below 😀 I think the next one we may try to do at noon eastern that way it is also easier on me to help out as well. Unfortunately I am sure there will never be an ideal time for everyone but that is why they will always be recorded and the discussion can continue…

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Hey Lei I am sorry you missed it but I will be posting all of these meetings in the “Events and Announcements” forum.  This meeting was in the discussion “February Rounds with Doc T. “Aerobic exercise and it’s role in insulin…”

I am also trying to post events and announcements to my news feed and we should send out at least 1 email to regist… Read more

The link for the signup is above, and it should be the same link to get in, if for some reason there needs to be a new link I will post it, and I will include the replay link when it is available after but be sure to try to join us live if you can so you can send in a question or you can email contact@thehorsesadvocate.com your question in advance…

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Great thanks!

Yes Kathy is correct the replay link will be emailed out to those who are registered and it will also be posted here in the first post when it is available. After the call it does take some time to process and upload but should be within a few hours and not more than 24hrs later.