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Re: Need to locate Timothy Cubes in Michigan
celestinefarm
Hi Five to Aurelio, he is a wonderful asset to this group!
-- Dawn Wagstaff and Tipperary Saline, MI 2003
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Re: Need to locate Timothy Cubes in Michigan
Just called Standish Milling and they have the ODTBC cubes in stock and a local to me feed store gets regular feed deliveries from them. Should be able to get a small order put on the twice a week truck. YES!
-- - Bonnie Snodgrass 07-2016
White Cloud, Michigan, USA
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Re: Trim photos are up in album of Micky trimmed 14 September 2017 l
Not sure How to Lorna have just gone into album and started renaming photos apologies for making it hard for yous guys.
-- Kath Chase & Micky Yinnar Vic Australia
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Re: Micky here is the attached email sent still waiting leptin test results can that change matters
-- thanks Maggie I have been in to photo album started renaming some of the photos I hope what I have done Is correct apologies again. At present Micky is stable bound unable to walk out of stable so makes it very difficult trying to get good photos on a flat surface as such. All 4 pulses bounding tonight and hobbling around the stable on soft shavings. Kath Chase & Micky Yinnar Vic Australia
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Re: Need to locate Timothy Cubes in Michigan
Aurelio, thank you for that info! Yes, I really have been spending time on this. Triple Crown has a "dealer locator" on their web site. From all my calls to listed dealers it appears that if one store in a chain ever ordered a TC product the whole chain of stores will get listed by TC as "dealers". So called "dealers" will offer to order the cubes for you but this involves a minimum # of bags. This could be 5-20 bags as a minimum. I own one horse who may or may not decide to eat the cubes again. This is why I am asking if someone knows of a feed store that stocks this feed.
The Stabul 1 feed is pretty much the same way. For TSC the minimum order is 20 bags if they do not keep it in stock. According to Randy at NuZu the TSC store has to get the info of how to order it thru Blue Seal as an intermediary of some sort. Not as easy of an order so not surprising that it is not stocked unless you go together as a group to place a big enough order. Thanks all for your suggestions. I'll keep pursuing finding the cubes. It is a feed that has "chew" to it versus the pellet feeds that turn to powder or mush. After feeding Mouse for 15 years I should be able to predict what he might eat. Hah! -- - Bonnie Snodgrass 07-2016
White Cloud, Michigan, USA
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Re: Hi! Seeking help...
Jane Fletcher
Sorry to butt in! If using for muscle pain how much would you use? Thank you!,
Jane Sent from my iPad -- Jane, South East Western Australia Nov 2016 Garnet and Bill
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Re: Oreo Case Update: somehwat urgent
Marsha
Good morning,
Thank you all for your feedback. I have a couple of clarifying questions in response to the comments. 1. First, thank you for the positive thoughts, support, and hand holding! (Lorna and Sandy and everyone else) 2. Regarding the local feed mills, I have heard of similar experiences since their primary customer is cattle and I do plan on avoiding those from my experience as well. (Thank you Melinda) 3. From Eleanor: California Trace plus: I will order. Palatability is a concern for me when switching foods, especially it seems like a lot of the low sugar and starch. Does anyone have experience with palatability of this supplement? I hate to buy a bunch of supplements and then have them all rejected. I have a limited budget...still working on the lottery. 4. Paraphrasing from Eleanor re: trim: "get the wedges off?" I pulled the wedges myself about a week ago now and also started trimming him. I have experience trimming as I worked with a farrier to assist me in learning to trim barefoot. I leave shoes and specialty trims to farriers usually, but I have managed the frequent trims for laminitic cases between farrier trims as needed. Lavinia gave me an idea of how to get started on the trim. She told me she will get back to me with more details. I need to take my pictures etc. per instructions now that I am aware of those details. The link that follows are hoof pictures together in a PDF file to show his progress over the last week with the trims. How often should I get x-rays during this stage to monitor if the trim is OK or not? https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Marsha%20and%20Oreo/12Sep17%20Trim%20Comparisons.pdf 5. Pain Management paraphrasing from Eleanor: " STOP previcox": I will find ALCar to help manage his pain. He is not in previcox. I have him on Bute in the PM. I would like to take him off Bute. Not sure it really is doing much anyway. 6. Metformin dose from Eleanor: "can go up to 30 mg/kg twice per day": He isn't responding to Metformin at 24 mg/kg twice per day. His insulin doubled since I put him on that...since the vet did not submit for ACTH, I do not know if that also increased and is really responsible for the increase in insulin. I am not increasing Metformin as I don't want to risk tipping the balance towards more harm than good. Should I keep him on this dose for now until I have his diet more stabilized? When do I know I can ditch the Metformin? I am reading some journal articles led by Franks, and it looks like he goes up to 50 mg/kg, but it seems the adverse effects of ulceration etc. begin to show up more. 7. Antech vs. Cornell (for me: FREE vs. $50) I have seen two of responses to NOT switch to Antech. My husband is a small animal vet and we can have equine ACTH and Insulin done for free from Antech. We do not have a contract with Cornell's lab and their fees are higher from what we have seen for his customers. SO, we would like to stick with Antech since the cost is FREE and this episode is showing me how important it is to test these guys more frequently instead of relying only on symptoms. I have three IR/PPID ponies that I manage including Oreo. I have three other ponies that are young and healthy now, but I can see going down this path, I own a small training facility and I am also DC for the local pony club and many of the kids use my awesome ponies. SO--my testing expense could go up significantly if I stick with Cornell and start testing more. MY QUESTION is ANTECH DATA INCONSISTENT (and thus unreliable) or CONSISTENTLY LOW (thus potentially reliable, just I need to bear in mind the range)? My background is a doctorate in cellular biology and chemical engineering (I lecture in engineering currently) so I am familiar with most biological analytical protocols and can certainly adjust my own ranges when looking at data depending on data source after comparing results from each lab to establish a baseline. We have good jobs, but none have brought us to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and my horse business is currently running in the red as it is less than a year old. Thank you again for all your responses. I have been looking at other trims and gleaning as much information as I can...it is almost too much. I understand how many feel overwhelmed and find it difficult to determine which strategy will work best for your own specific case, because they are all a little different. -- -- Marsha Elgin Texas ( near Austin Texas) joined: 7September2017 https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Marsha%20and%20Oreo/Oreo%20Case%20History%20Scan.pdf https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=9600
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Re: Micky here is the attached email sent still waiting leptin test results can that change matters
Maggie
Hi Kath, Yes, you need to rename the photos with the date, etc as described here: https://ecir.groups.io/g/main/wiki/Hoof-Related-Photo-Instructions#Naming-Hoof-Photos Yes, delete the jpeg in the Name of the picture and name it according to those instructions above. Your signature is for posting messages, not in the photo album. Set it up here: https://ecir.groups.io/g/main/editsub and it will automatically attach to each of your posts. Are you working from a phone? Much more labor intensive than using a PC! Maggie, Chancey and Spiral in VA
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Re: Micky here is the attached email sent still waiting leptin test results can that change matters
Thanks Maggie I appreciate your help so your meaning in photo album where you edit. Have been putting descriptions in most of them when you click on photo it says edit and I have been putting descriptions of each foot in there currently yous guys can't see description until you click on photo. Making it difficult for you to work out which hoof? Etc. is that right? with signature where it says in edit and it says photo by Kath Chase did you mean I need to put signature there? And also in my album all the photos are names JPEG so do I change that and put example LF date I'm sorry for making it hard for yous guys Kath Chase & Micky Yinnar Vic Australia
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Re: Micky here is the attached email sent still waiting leptin test results can that change matters
Maggie
Hi Kath, I know you're in crisis, so please don't think this is nit picking. It would be so much easier for us to find your photos and case history if you put a link to them in your signature. Here's a link to your CH folder and photos: https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Kath%20&%20Micky https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=9614&p=pcreated,,,20,2,0,0 So that you don't have to remember to include your signature each time, go here to the subscriptions tab and copy/paste this: Kath Chase & Micky Yinnar Vic Australia July 2017 https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Kath%20&%20Micky https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=9614&p=pcreated,,,20,2,0,0 Don't forget to scroll all the way down to the bottom and click on "Save". The other thing that would be really helpful is if you could go o your photo album and rename the photos according to these instructions: https://ecir.groups.io/g/main/wiki/Hoof-Related-Photo-Instructions#Naming-Hoof-Photos To rename the photos, click on each one and then click on "edit" underneath the photo and then click in the box under "Name" to type in it. When you have your photos labelled according the instructions, you can see the progression without having to open each photo to see the date it was taken. Does that make sense? I think you've tried to attach a photo to this email? Attachments are allowed in this group, so all your photos need to go into your album. Hang in there Kath! Maggie, Chancey and Spiral in VA
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Re: Trim photos are up in album of Micky trimmed 14 September 2017 l
Kath,can you add links to your signature?
-- Lorna in Eastern Ontario, Canada
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Message Posting Etiquette - Keeping ECIR User Friendly, Fri, 9/15/17
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Message Posting Etiquette - Keeping ECIR User Friendly When: Description: This is a high volume group that can be difficult to follow. Help make it easier for everyone by following the Message Posting Guidelines below:1) Sign your posts. This is a very large group. Whenever posting a message, identify yourself and your equine by using your full ECIR Signature with your first name, location, the date you joined and the links to your Case History folder and Photo Album. The volunteers need all this information to provide quality responses and suggestions for local support, vendors, vets, hoof care, etc.
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New Member - possible laminitic mare
Hello everyone! Forgive my ignorance here but after spending the last week reading all sorts of info on how best to help out my old mare I'm a bit overwhelmed!
Not sure what info I should post here since I haven't been able to get any testing done just yet due to lack of funds but my old mare is assumed to at least be IR and possibly PPID as well. She's been thru one episode of laminitis last fall and is currently acting like she's having another episode and has been for the last two weeks.. I will be getting the necessary tests and x-rays done once we can afford it but her filly has been suffering from recurrent abscesses after healing from a severe puncture wound in the groin while being ridden by her trainer! Needless to say our funds for vet care have been completely used up! Is there anything I can do to help my mare right now that won't cost much? Once I get her thru this episode of sore feet and our money has built back up I'll be testing her. I have read thru the website about diet and I'll be attempting to get that figured out as best I can but the old girl is currently out with my two younger horses and I don't have a barn or stalls, just a shelter they use. I will be separating the old girl asap but need to clear out the area first so she won't have access to any grass. She's currently eating Timothy hay and she gets 1 pound of Enrich Plus in the evenings. There's a salt block and of course fresh water all the time.
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Re: Hi! Seeking help...
I started using ALCAR with him because I believed he had some form of PSSM initially (he ties up in response to vaccinations and regularly displays extreme stiffness in his hind end from stress - unfortunately he is very very easily stressed). The first day of it, both eyes swelled up HUGE and ran continuously for 24hrs or so, then they calmed down and his eyes have stayed less runny since then. They still run a lot more than a normal horse, but the Histidine seems to help them run less than they might otherwise. In addition, he, like I mentioned, "woke up" on the his first day of Histidine. He started showing interest in his world and being curious for the first time EVER. He had always been rather detached and uninterested in things, prior to Histidine. Maybe he'll be less of a picky eater once his feed is making him feel awesome, fingers crossed!!
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Trim photos are up in album of Micky trimmed 14 September 2017 l
-- Kath Chase & Micky Yinnar Vic Australia
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Sweating Symptom in 18 year old gelding who also has odd abscess in area of two year old pigeon fever.
I would like clarification regarding sweating as a symptom. I have an 18 year old Norwegian Fjord who is very, very overweight. We tested him last winter, and his ACTH was fine, but his letpin and glucose were high. I will get the exact numbers from the vet. His hair coat might be a little long and rougher than it should be, both winter and summer, but I am not certain of that. His body condition score is probably between a 7 & 8 right now. We have reduced his feed to 15 lbs a day (roughly 1.5 % his ideal weight, and he is slowly,, slowly developing some condition.. On California Trace, salt, magnesium, flax, vitamin E, and meadow grass hay that appears to be low enough calorie, but is not tested.. He is fat enough in the sheath that his pee sometimes comes out wrong because his penis is surrounding by so much fatty sheath. Fat pads on shoulders, relatively soft crest, but enlarged.
He does not look unwell, or have a pained look in his eye that my other Cushingoid horses have had. His coat might be just a bit heavy, but not certain. Feet seem to be fine, but I have seen him ouchy last winter. His main suspicious symptom is that he sweats when other horses are not visibly sweating, and when his hair coat does not appear to be much, if any, heavier than his pasture mates. This is at a standstill, in sun, and is on the sides of the shoulders, belly and flanks. And between the front legs. His other symptom is a waxing and waiting "infected" area on his shoulder that is left over from treating pigeon fever. I probably caused it by too aggressively flushing the area with betadine, but without perfect sterile technique. It recently swelled up and burst, but then wanted to close over. Calcified behind the area. Not painful like you would expect an abscess to be. When he lowers his head, the area sometimes pop like there are air bubbles trapped in the shoulder area. We treated with SMZ's for 10 days, and it went right down but has since shown signs of minor resurgence. . Vet took sample from inside and found Staph aureus, and agromyces (I think...not actinomyces). It is funny. You will notice a "puff" of blood on his shoulder every so often, with no sign of where it came from, but it must be from the abcess. We took a blood sample for an SHI, which I gather finds pigeon fever abscesses. The pigeon fever episode ended two years ago but the same popping was present in the shoulder at that time. the shoulder is not overly enlarged from what I can see, but it seems to be calcified. I have no doubt that this horse is IR, and we are working on getting that under control (finally), but I am wondering what the sweating might be a clue of? Am suspicious of the longstanding infection as well. Could he be sweating just because he is so fat, or is this potentially a clue about Cushings? I am expecting the ACTH to come back elevated, but not drastically so given it is the time of the seasonal rise. I used the sweating and the two year old abscess as motivation to get the ACTH test, but do not know if it could just be a sign of IR? Will work on a case history tomorrow. This horse is Odin. Brother, whose case history is below, and needs updating, is doing spectacularly on 1mg Prascend at age 25. -- Gail Russell 8/30/2008
Brother Case History
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Re: prascend crushing vs dissolving
I put the whole tablet in a little syringe, pull some sugar free peppermint water in (VERY mildly flavored) at whatever temperature comes out of the tap and shake. Dissolves very rapidly, very easily.
-- Helen Temps and Chloe June 2017 Placerville, CA https://ecir.groups.io/g/ https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=6929
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Re: Micky here is the attached email sent still waiting leptin test results can that change matters
Hi Dr KelIon, thank you for getting back to me. have a question still waiting on Leptin results could that change the equation in Mickys case. ACTH was 73 Jan 2016 36 June 2016 31 September 2016 with increases of pergolide from 1mg in January up to 4ml current. Current glucose is 5.98mmol current insulin is 5IU/ml Micky has had his trim it was done yesterday laying down he still struggling this was off his food yesterday laying down all the time . It's about healing him and keeping him comfortable at present still waiting for Jiagulan to arrive. New boots have been ordered. He is still laying down often . Has dropped weight. Could you have a look at pictures please left front. He is constantly standing with that foot out the front weightbearing on on to the bad foot RF that had the severe rotation and sinking back in October 2016. I have 1 cleantrax left. Should I be clean traxing again given the whiteline disease and the right foot being so vulnerable at present. I need to help his pain level. Can you see anything with this left front in photo would appreciate advice on what to do it is gut wrenching given he was bounding around in his cloud therapy boots in August. Breaks my heart. Left front after trim yesterday
Kind Kath chase
-- Kath Chase & Micky Yinnar Vic Australia
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Re: Micky
I have replied to your email Dr Kellon Sent reply to your email thank you again for all your help have latest pictures of trim, done yesterday have sent them to you will try to upload tonight on ECIR new boots ordered Jiagulan has been ordered still waiting, the mineral balancing need help doing it. Sent you Mickys diet plan you suggested Kerr gold pellet, given his levels of minerals and vitamins are in RDI the iron level is still high so I'm guessing your saying Kerr gold pellet to up the minerals and vitamins that I'm guessing the iron is not letting them get through even though I have them balanced to RDI most are slightly over or very close but won't the gold Kerr pellet overload him now with way too many vitamins and minerals please refer to diet plan showing all vitamins minerals esc starch etc emailed to you last Tuesday 12 September 2016. I really appreciate everything that you and Lavinia have said to help Micky.
-- Kath Chase & Micky Yinnar Vic Australia
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Logan Large manure output
Irene Collins-Fotino
Hi all,
Logan has had difficulty passing manure yesterday and today. After several hours of trying yesteray, he finally passed manure and I noticed that it was a larger pile than usual, but didn't give it a second thought. His stall today - according to the barn manager - looked good with his usual amount of manure. Same thing today - tried all day to poop and finally in the afternoon passed a huge amount of manure and the fecal balls were huge. The vet happened to be in the barn at the time and said that amount of manure and size of fecal matter was very unusual. He mentioned that there may be a disruption in the myoelectric activity causing slow release of feces. Another observation is that yesterday he sounded like he was burping. Now I know that horses are not able to burp, but seriously, he made the same sounds this summer prior to colic. He passed another round of manure shortly before I left the barn again in the late afternoon. I found this paper Applied Equine Gastrointestinal Physiology A.M. Merritt, DVM, MS College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, USA here http://www.as.nchu.edu.tw/lab/211/class/regulatory%20peptides/equine%20GI%20physiology.pdf Very interesting passage: "This contractility is governed by the enteric nervous system (ENS) and local myoeletrical events. Myoelectrically, the slow wave frequency rate, which determines the maximum frequency that the stomach can contract, is around 3/min in the horse, whereas in dogs, pigs and ruminants it is closer to 6/min. An interesting feature of equine and ruminant gastroduodenal motility is that just as a phase III myoelectrical pattern develops in the proximal duodenum, the gastric antrum stops moving for a few minutes. During this time, gastric emptying ceases which, in the horse allows backflow of duodenal contents into the stomach. " Right now Logan is eating about 10 quarts of hay stretcher, 4 quarts of beet pulp, ~2 flakes of chopped, wet hay, supplements from HorseTech (which probably have to re-assessed), chia seeds, salt, chastetreeberry powder, probios, Assure Guard and UGard for ulcer management. I am going to add, slippery elm to aid digestive passage. He also started Stabul 1 about 10 days ago and is now eating his full complement - 4.5 lbs. Everything that he eats is wet except the Stabul 1. I will shortly pull some hay and send it to Equ-Analytical. The barn owner is not happy with the Stabul 1 addition as she wanted all of the boarders to choose from a selection of "grains" which she buys from a local feed store. She is convinced that Stabul 1 is what is causing his most recent problem. Our vet stated today that it is not what he is eating, or wet or dry, but that some there is possibly a disruption in his able to contract and relax his digestive system. Does anyone have any thoughts about my pony's issue? He has such a rough summer; is there anything I can do for him. Thanks in advance, Irene & Logan NRC 2009 Hudson, NH
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