You shouldn't be adding Nexium to GastroGard. Get some garden shears and cut up hay into pieces no longer than an inch. Soak until soft before feeding. -- Eleanor in PA www.drkellon.com EC Owner

Since he was bright, interactive and moving around there is not much chance the metformin caused this but because his hydration is questionable you should stop it at least for now. Colic is not

You won't need a hoof supplement if you balance to your hay but we've been waiting for that for a very long time. The best premixed hoof supplement is: http://ka-hi.com/integri-hoof.html Well

Hi Kathy, Welcome to the group! Sorry to hear that your boy is having trouble. Sounds like a couple things could be going on with him. To help you figure out just what that is we need some more

In reading some of the feedback with other horses, I realized that I am focused on getting heel growth, when most of the advice is to lower the heel? Am I doing something backwards here? I want

I just added Majik's supplement info to her case history. I'm starting small and building up. SimplyFlax ground flax, Elevate vitamin E, and loose Iodized salt. I have a plain salt brick in her

Before mybesthorse.com was selling spirulina powder, I bought the "wafers"—which are actually tablets—from Springtime. Each tablet is 1750 mg. and contains dextrose, not good for IR horses. That's

Alternate way to dose a pergolide pill: Cut the tip end off of a 12ml syringe. Suck up about 3/4 syringe full of unsweetened applesauce. Stick the pill in the

Question about half life of pergolide etc vs timing of blood draw and when pergolide is given on test day would we expect to see diff acth values if for ex blood is drawn at 11am and pergolide was

I do the small pc of carrot with pergolide capsule put into the carrot..Jesse quids hay, but only hay.. no problem with pellets bp etc -- LJ Friedman Nov 2014 San Diego, CA

My horse was off his minerals when I started Prascend as well, typical reaction noted in the files. Try using APF - mine did not like it at first, but I soak a Beet E Beets treat with it and he eats

Interesting. After a year or so of trying every enticement known to man (or horse), I finally tried cutting about 1/2" piece of carrot and poking a hole in the center for the Pergolide too. My

hI LJ, Very glad to hear Jesse ate some food tonight. Hope things continue to improve. Josie Davis CA 06/09

Tori gets 7 mg of Estradiol and 1 mg of Pergolide daily. She became resistant to feeding her meds in hollowed out carrots and cookies, spitting them out or refusing to eat them at all. I finally

Since Highway 1 north of us was closed today due to flooding, the library where I volunteer on Tuesdays was rather quiet. I decided to check out some of the horse magazines and was rather amazed to

some good change. I made the metformin connection today, and stopped it as of today. Tonite at 5 pm, when I got to the barn,, no food was eaten. I started him on nexium 80 mg. for stomach ulcers

Thanks for tip Maxine - I will read the archive files. I wonder if the seasonal rise begins with the Summer Solstice? After the longest day has passed, the horses all start to shed their Summer

Hi "hickoryhl" Great that your horses love the spirulina tablets! Hope you saw Dr Kellon's post on the correct dose: https://ecir.groups.io/g/main/message/205531 Please sign your posts with your

I stick the capsule in the side of my pony's mouth. -- Lorna in Eastern Ontario, Canada ECIR Moderator 2002

For a single pill, I make a miniature carrot pill carrier for Ginger's Pergolide. Cut off an inch of carrot, push a screwdriver through the middle, stick the pill in the screwdriver hole and