Yes thank you. I did not notice my typo. I was mostly not sure if the range of 4:1 to 10:1 ratios were important for mineral absorption. It sounds like it’s not. -- - Anthie Northern

Eleanor Kellon, VMD updated the album Hooves Before and After Balancing: Examples of obviously improved hoof quality before (lower hoof) and after (upper growth) mineral balancing

Yes, deficiencies. The FF may or may not get the job done. Really need hay analysis to tell. Do you know if the hay was grown locally? What color is Babe? Any issues with sun bleaching? Yes, rasp

I use a small dried apricot. Slit the top insert the pills. It may have a bit of sugar but no worse than other suggestions I have seen and tried. It is a positive experience for Jewel and she thinks

A wonderful well deserved gesture. I’m fairly new to the group and dont have any IR /PPID horses and still learning lots! Thank you all!! -- Penny Duthie Grant, Florida Joined January 2020

Hi Hilary, Just wanted to second what Kirsten said about Amika's current body condition and having the insulin and glucose levels done so you have a baseline for future reference. I'm not so sure

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Hi Anthie, I believe you mean Mn = 850 mg, and Mn to Zn is just under 1:1? If that's the case then that, and the Zn:Cu sound pretty close to perfect. My understanding is you don't have to worry

Yes that is quite low for protein. There are discussions in our messages here and in Horsekeeping about adding field or split peas to increase protein, which Kathleen will undoubtedly be aware of.

-prascend Isn’t given by weight of the horse. I have read that show that 70% of horses will do well on 1 tablet .But 30% do not do well and half of those do very poorly. Why are you on 1/2 of a

i looked your case history. I find SmartPak products are usually overpriced. I don’t see you feeling any salt? For a regular size horse 1 to 2 ounces salt is recommended. Of course you would need

-- LJ Friedman Nov 2014 Vista, Northern San Diego, CA Jesse and majestic ‘s Case History Jesse's Photos A Few thoughts. Just by landing on this page and taking the advice given here,your

I'd like to add that most of us arrive here with basically the same poor trim, some worse than others, so to confirm what Lavinia said: this is incredibly common! If you think discussing this with

Hello Jan, Welcome to the group! You've provided quite a bit of information in your email which can go into your case history and then be posted as outlined in the email you were sent about

Hi Lindsay, Re: the weight gain question. I board my horses and we've had several new boarder horses come to the farm as skinny as Audi looks in the July pictures (or skinnier). Usually by the time

Hi I don't think so. He was possibly wearing tubbease hoof boots beforehand but they were taken off for the X-ray. Vet had him standing on a block of wood during the Xray. He also said that the X-rays

Hello everybody! My name is Ján Kalmánek and I live in Slovakia. I own an Irish Cob that has been diagnosed with Cushing’s syndrome and insulin resistance (IR) Let me provide some

Hi Sherry, My fault sorry, I can see my question is a mess. Dr. K. says corticosteroids will lower ACTH in a normal horse but not in a PPID one, so I was guessing that this might be due to pituitary

Oh, that makes sense. Thank you. -- María Durán Navarro Dec 2017 Madrid (Spain) Plutón´s Case History Plutón´s Photo Album _._,_._,_

Hi Nina, One of the moderators suggested baby food prunes to me a year ago. It has worked like magic. I don't use much. Enough to wet the compounded pergolide I use. I used to syringe it but have