Hello everyone! Forgive my ignorance here but after spending the last week reading all sorts of info on how best to help out my old mare I'm a bit overwhelmed! Not sure what info I should post here si

Ok, I think I have things set up for now. I'm on my tablet so I sent my completed case history to the email listed in the instructions. I also created an album but there's no photos in it yet. I have

Hello all! I think I got the CH done finally.. it's as complete as it can be right now. I'll attempt to take some pics this evening if I can and post them once I get them. We're in the process of maki

Wow! Thanks ever so much for the knowledge shared here! I was actually thinking of asking my vet if it would be harmful if we went ahead with treating her as if we knew she was PPID/IR. Seems like a s

Used the weight tape on Sahara tonight and it says she's at 1070 pounds.. haven't updated the CH yet but wanted to post that info... my 6 year old filly taped at almost 1300! That just seems wrong to

Hmm.. I was just looking into this myself and was wondering if I could use screening gravel since it's so much cheaper than pea gravel? Don't want to spend a lot of money on this property since we ren

Ahh ok. Thanks for the very fast reply! My reason for asking is mainly because the place I would get it from stated that the screenings is what most horse farms here use for arena footing. I thought i

Hello all, I asked my vet about starting my mare on pergolide right away and he brought up a good point. That being if she's well controlled on the dosage given and then we test for ACTH won't that co

Thanks so much Maggie! Yes, I did see that comment on my other post and that's actually what I explained to my vet.. hopefully he'll be more likely to write a script for compounded pergolide once I sh

This might be answered somewhere already but I couldn't find any reference to it in the bit of searching I've done. The area we currently live is known to have very high iron but low selenium in the s

So I'm wondering if I need to pay that extra money to get the selenium checked or if we just assume it's low based on local soil tests?

Thanks for all the replies! I was reading thru what was tested and I know that selenium it can be toxic at certain levels so I was wondering about the hay analysis not including it. It's funny you men

Hello again everyone, I've been lurking and reading here as well as doing other research and I have a few questions. I tried my mare some beet pulp as a test tonight and it turns out she loves it so n

This is probably going to sound like a silly question but never having used beet pulp before I don't know what they're supposed to smell like. The bag I just bought from the feed store this past weeke

That's what I figured.. thanks!

Be grateful your vet will do what he does.. mine will only sell me the meds he carries and not write a script at all! He sells prascend tablets at almost double what I'd pay through valley vet and qui

Hi, I'm curious if there's any point in using AAKG & Jiaogulan for my old mare that isn't getting pergolide? The price of the prascend med are just too much right now but I think we can afford the oth

Paula, I can't figure out how to send a private message thru here lol... not very tech savvy I'm afraid... I'd love to get in touch with a different vet that might be willing to help me save some mone

You know, it makes you wonder why there hasn't been an effort made on the part of a feed company to develop a feed that is safe for our four legged friends... instead of having to design a feed on our

Good point Lorna! One thing I noticed though with regards to the label on the bag of hay cubes you linked. Now I'm paraphrasing of course but in one part it mentions the fact that one pound of the cub