My Arabian Mare Rani had her blood test done last week on 2 ACTH 125 norm range 4.3-22.8pg/ml Glucose 5.5 norm 3.5-5.5 Insulin 7 norm 10-30 triglycerides 0.9 norm 0.0-0.6 She was on !8mgs of

Beverly, I am dealing with dental problems with my IR gelding Pookey Bear right now and having to feed him mashes and what I refer to as horse Slurpees. He loves his ODTBC but only if I get the

I forgot some info. The Appy does not eat hay and ODTB cubes are his main forage am and pm. He is out in pasture during the daytime... (Not IR or PPID) Ferne Fedeli No. California 4/2010

I also use warm to hot water to moisten the cubes as they absorb it much faster than cold water. I also feed in those big black feeder dishes--about 18" wide and 4 or 5 inches high. Our Appy does

I just clipped my mare, which I'm trying to do every two months during the summer, to hopefully help prevent a recurrence of the anhydrosis she experienced last fall. The hair that grew in since her

Horses have a hard time getting anything mushy and packed down out of a bucket. I use wide shallow plastic feed pans so they can push the feed around and lick or pick it up. Carol and Rossi in

Hi Beverly, I use about a cup of very warm water to about 2 cups of ODTB's and they absorb all the water and sort of crumble into a moist, fluffy mass. I find that warm water makes them break down

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the EquineCushings group. File : /Drugs, Pergolide, Cushings Disease

Thanks for responding Lorna to my private email. Still trying to figure how to ask questions, and how to access files on questions like this. I requested to join the ecir group so no

Hi Lorna... here is Tabby's Case History https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/echistory7/files/Sally%20-%20Arizona/ Sally in N. AZ April 2013

thanks Lavinia, I agree that is what she had. I called it stress diarrhoea (like IBS) and she used to sweat up too like she's all soaped up in the shower in a trailer. I got her loading up nicely at

Thanks, Lavinia. I'll be searching for new hay today. Deb and Cory in NC July

Hi Sally, >Grateful for her improvement and thankful for your thoughts.... Can you link her case history in your signature? Glad she's improving. Lornain Ontario,Canada ECIR Moderator 2002 *See What

Hello All... From earlier posts, you may have seen that my mare recently had an inflammatory reaction, exact cause unknown.... possibly to her recent West Nile Vaccination. After three days, her one

Hi Deb, You are correct about the ACTH driving insulin. The vet has it backwards. The hay is technically OK at 9.9 Esc + Starch but some horses would need that soaked. The problem may be that the

Hi Susan, Here is a link to a brief description of Maladaptive Stress response in Humans: Swedish Medical Center Seattle - Classes & Resources Swedish Medical Center

My second Icelandic, Tryggur Jarl, has been diagnosed as Compensated IR. I have posted his Case History in ECHistory8. His blood work was normal last September, but abnormal this spring. The

Hello everyone-- I just got Cory's blood results. The blood was drawn four weeks into his laminitic episode. I am disheartened by the ACTH since we had raised the pergolide from 2 mg to 4 mg after

: KrisandBaron in History 3 Here's the link https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ECHistory3/files/KrisandBaron/ Lornain Ontario,Canada ECIR Moderator 2002 *See What Works in

Thanks, my case history is: KrisandBaron in History 3 Thanks,Kris 2005 Grass Valley, Ca