Glad to hear your horse is improving Heidi! I hope that continues :) Cheers Karen

Thanks Lavinia for the information. We are slowly drawing the gunk out and he goes from totally lame to being able to put pressure on that hoof again. Will continue to soak and poultice until he is

Good news, Heidi. Hope he continues to improve. Thanks for the update -- Lavinia Moderator/ECIR Support

Thank you Lavinia for all those great suggestions. The plastic wrap is a great idea that I had forgotten about. Yesterday the heat became more concentrated around the coronary band and not very warm

The idea is to keep the poultice from drying out so you want to seal in away from the drying effects of the air. Ditto with the hoof itself, as keeping it softer helps provide an easier path for the

Karen, Lavinia, I am dealing with a similar issue - an abscess that burst out the coronary band and won't resolve. Still has heat around the coronary band on the lateral side and that heat extends

Hi Karen, Abscesses can be miserable. Sometimes they drain completely the first time, sometimes not. The abscess can be a single pocket or more than one separate pocket, which may drain at different

Hi all My horse had an abscess burst through his heel about a fortnight ago - vet came out the day before because he couldn't walk, antibiotics, poultice and bandaged. It burst through his heel bulb

Hi Larissa, Thank-you for taking this one on. This girl is lucky to have been placed in your care. No way to know whether she is IR or not unless there has been blood work pulled on her. Being an Arab

Forget about soaking boots. She is Not ready for that. Get a few tubs of ToMorrow. Easy to use. It has a tip applicator. Try to clean first, go to another hoof. Do the Round the world. Then on

Hi Diann, Yes, she lives on property with my gelding and sees me 3x a day for meals + any trips I make outside to visit her or the other horse. I try to clean her feet every day to get her used to

Hi Patricia, Thanks! I based her current diet from a friend with Arabians who does a great job managing horsey diets. Should I post her diet over there for folks to check over? Take care, Larissa

Greetings! Is this mare at your farm? Do you see her everyday? If so, i can offer ideas for getting her mind on you. I am a pro trimmer, but others can help with the hoof issues. First treat fro

Sorry, forgot to add the link! -- main@... North central Florida July 7 2018 https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Patricia%20and%20Dancer%20and%20Nathan Dancer:

So sorry, sent an empty message! Blessings to you for taking on this girl! You have certainly changed her world. I'm sure the moderators will give you lots of information, but you can join the main

Hi folks, A friend recommended you for help for appropriately trim a lamanitic horse. A big of background on my girl: Shakira is a 14 years old, ~14.3hh, 3/4 Arabian. She was rescued from an intense

Just for the sake of accuracy, d,l does not mean designed in lab, but refers to mirror image isomers (think of how your hands are mirror images of each other), d being a right handed molecule, l being

If you are reading a label and it is listed as dL-arginine it is synthetic. I remember the dL in my head as "designed in a lab" therefore not natural....:) -- Trisha DePietro Aug 2018 NH Dolly and

Thank you. Testing was not done as fasting samples. Xrays are December 2019 but there should be more recent ones from April 2020 in the album? I am trying my best to remove him from grass but

Hi Erika, Was Robbie's blood work run on fasting samples? The first set of results had him as compensated IR. Sorry, there is no indication in his history as to what the circumstances were. The rads