The only way to evaluate any company's supplement is to compare it to what your diet needs. On the most basic level, this means a hay analysis. Unless you have a very young horse that is anemic, iron

It has been my experience, the more frequent meals the happier, stable weight horse. My Ab would pick at poop, dirt, anything when fed twice day a day. It was nerve wracking. All my horses improved

The vitamin and mineral supplement includes added iron sulfate. -- Dawn Wagstaff and Tipperary Saline, MI 2003 Tipperary Case History

Works on needle shy horses too. -- Nancy C in NH ECIR Moderator 2003 DDT+E = effective treatment for PPID and EMS/IR equines: https://bit.ly/2J4ZgYT

One thing you can do is use clicker training to teach him that needles predict good things. Zoos do it all the time to teach animals to willingly have blood drawn. -- Gail Russell 8/30/2008

Link to the company: Welcome to Green Mountain Nutritional Services, Inc Welcome to Green Mountain Nutritional Services, Inc Welcome to Green Mountain Nutritional Services. Based in Attica, NY, home

Hi Jaini, Thanks for the insight. I was reading about how high readings could result from blood pulled on needle-phobic horses and while Scutch is not a fling himself around the stall sort, he's

Cheryl, Is there any reason she can't have a hay net during the night? Is she stalled at night? -- Dawn Wagstaff and Tipperary Saline, MI 2003 Tipperary Case History

Hi Sue, Which of their products are you considering? Can you provide a link? -- Lorna in Kingston, Ontario, Canada ECIR

I would love to use someone local but I wasn’t sure if the supplements he sold were truly ok for IR horses He said they were and that was no added carrier to them thus adding sugars or starches.

Josie used to have loose stools often also. I treated her for ulcers, which didn't seem to help all that much. Putting her on a diet of mainly TC Timothy balance cubes slowed gut sounds a lot, but

Jaini thank you very much! I will certainly get her tested again late March. Cheers Tori -- Tori December, 2016 Adelaide Australia Case History

Hi, Cindy - Primary hypothyroidism in horses is *extremely* rare. "Euthyroid sick syndrome", a term for a thyroid gland that can function normally, but due to illness or other factors is fairly

Hi, Sherry - that's a bit of a tough one. This time of year, the ACTH should be well within normal; however, the exercise may have had a confounding effect - but how much of an effect, I couldn't

Soooo I had the vet pull blood for an ACTH level on Scutch because I wanted a baseline - he had an abscess last fall for the first time in his life and what I thought looked like slight rotation on

There is a typo in the above post: 17 pmol/L should read 17 pg/mL. Oops! Different units, different normals. Thanks, Lavinia - that's what I love about this group: we all watch each others'

Prascend dissolves almost instantly in water, a bit faster in lukewarm water. So instead of bothering with a pill crusher, you could dissolve and top the feed with the Prascend "tea." I would only

Does the group recommend checking thyroid levels? Cindy Denton, Texas Joined 2/19, but I was a member of the old group years ago.

i have been feeding hay in three small meals daily..7 12 and 6., often spread through out her paddock in small piles to encourage movement or in a one inch hole haynet if weather torrentially raining.

Hello Barhaug, Welcome to the group! Sorry your mare is having these issues. You are posting fine, it's just that your first post is always moderated so it may take a bit of time to appear. From