Sarah, Try Miracle Hoof Oil. You paint it on the hoof, and I really do think it makes it stronger. My farrier told me to use it. Since you paint it on, it's not going to interfere with his diet.

Jodie, Wow! Your husband is a keeper. You just saved about $100 on a hay probe. Others have tried to make them w/o much success. Maybe you should post detailed instructions for other

Angela, I board, too, and what I do for Penny's supplements is to make up baggies, one for each feeding, and then all the barn owner has to do is dump in the supplement/meds mix when she feeds

Sue, That price is pretty steep. I had a whole slew of tests, and they came to just a bit more. I think you should find another, cheaper vet. I think, if you search past messages for the costs of

Nancy, Is there anything we can do to help? Kim & CG in NC

Nancy I've changed your email delivery to digest format. You should get two or three digests per day. If that is still too much I can change your delivery to "No Mail". Send an email to

Sarah Bancroft wrote: Sarah - His hoof quality should continue to improve on his new diet, but in the meantime, check this out: www.equicast.us An excellent product for the situation you're in,

Hi:? This is Nancy Nunke with Spots 'N Stripes Ranch, in Ramona, CA...I've lost my ranch in the fire and I don't have anything with my passwords or other internet 'stuff', so please pass this on to

Dr. Kellon and Nutritional Experts.... back to Memfis - he's doing really great, his ligament injury is 95% healed, according to the ultrasound guy and they are baffled and put his remarkable healing

Thanks Sandy Su. My very creative husband went to the hardware store and bought a new piece of steel pipe, cut the teeth and bent the end other end so it would fit over a flat 1" drill bit and voila!

wrote: Boy, you can say that again! We have three different reported volume measurements for the same weight measurement of the "same" substance. Obviously the "same" substance varies

Hi Patti, Thank you for the breakdown of his lab work. I am actually meeting with the vet on Sat for fall vaccinations and will discuss all of this with her. Regarding his feed. One bag does last

<drkellon@...> wrote: Is her udder swollen? Are you able to exercise her? As for her cycle, I have only known she was in heat a handful of times in the 7+ years I've had her. I assume she is

Abby recommended _www.equicast.ww_ (http://www.equicast.us) and I just looked at the site. That is really cool! That is even better than the elastikon idea I had, but makes me feel better for at

Oops, sorry, I guess I should have kept reading. If Memfis has to wear some kind of therapeutic shoe, is there maybe a way to over-wrap the whole foot to apply supportive pressure to the wall???

Sarah said "He keeps twisting his shoes off on the front right which is his softest foot and every time he does this he rips off a bunch of foot " So why not let him go barefoot, put boots on him

In a message dated 11/1/2007 7:42:20 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ssu@... writes: think you should find another, cheaper vet. I think I need to find another vet

This is outrageous! When you do tests, you want the results ASAP. Next time, can you convince your vet to send the blood to Cornell? That's where my horse's tests were done, & I got answers in about

GREAT WORK WENDY!!!! and sounds like your vet is a keeper! Patti K Vail AZ

diagnosed with bloodwork. I will add some salt as he has been checked for all of the other obvious reasons for choking. (I guess he needs it anyway per the guidelines here) I guess my concern is