Kirsten, do you have a question on the glucose and Insulin also or is it just ACTH that you are aware they send out?

No, that is definetly what it says. OMG, someone said that a small animal vet would be fine as they are very used to dealing with the blood wooks on diabetic canines and felines. Should I be asking th

Sherry and Kirsten, So weather returning to normal, and so is her eating. Looked like she was not going to eat her BP and soaked cubes with the AT+ in it again (she has the whole time it's been really

Sorry Sherry, I thought the calculator would copy my numbers. I have updated CH with lab results and added the calculator results. The lab is called ANTECH and is in Calgary, AB. They are the lab for

https://www.ecirhorse.org/EMS-calculator.php latest test thru EMS Calculator This blood work was done by another lab and number reported in different format than Cornell. So I plugged in here to see a

I have been following some of the current questions and getting good info, but it is setting up more confusion. - Iron - looks to be balanced by copper and zinc? At start of my journey here I was told

Yes, Lorna and Kirsten that is exactly the article. Just pulled the mag out of my recycling to check. Back to the question, is the worry of overload more likely in the compromised horses?

It is a NANRIC Ultimate, and on it's own it looks like an oversized glue on Easy Boot Glove. Now she has a plaster of Paris casting material holding them in place, and that one keeps getting pulled ha

I read an article published in a Canadian magazine. It sourced two published studies that indicated iron overload was a very unlikely outcome for horses. Is that a healthy horse, not our compromised,

K does not look uncomfortable and under blankets seems pleasantly warm. Other than the stomping, which was pre-blankets and shipping boots. I think she is okay. J was warm but after sun went down and

Thanks Sherry, This is a possibility, for sure. Over night she has two hay nets but she doesn't move a lot back and forth, her stall is 12 X 20 and I try to make movement, water here, salt there, hay

Thanks Laura K, I don't think so, but will sure take a closer look when I go back tonight. Kandace

Hi Lorna, She was doing it before straps, but I can switch over to a single across the butt instead of under legs, thanks. Kandace

Since Mid-January and coming home from vet clinic, K has been stomping her back feet almost constantly. Lifting foot up forward and quite high and then stomping it down firmly, sometimes with a little

https://ecir.groups.io/g/Horsekeeping/files/Cold%20Weather%20Feeding%20Chart.pdf Kirsten here is the file I saw yesterday. Horsekeeping file but it seems to use the same as the spreadsheet. We are goi

http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/livestock/horses/facts/info-coldweather-man.htm Hello, This link is from a Canadian source and says horses acclimatized to Canadian Winters need not have feed incre

Kirsten, good point on salt, I have been slowly adding salt upping it by grains every couple of days, plus upping the pellets of AT+. With the half pound of ODTB cubes (daily) I am also happy that she

Sorry Sherry I too distracted from reply. I have updated CH, but I believe the alternating dose is about keeping Prascend at lowest possible level. Her ACTH had dropped from 151 to 65 on 1.5 tablets,

I am following as I have a lot of the same questions!