Thank you to everyone who made this last weekend's No Laminitis! Conference possible! What a gathering of great minds! What a learning opportunity. I look forward to watching the presentations again when the videos are released. Please keep the video format in coming conferences. It captures so much more than reading words from an outline. Great job, everyone!

Helen Connor and Blessing (IR/PPID)
Scappoose, OR
Member since May 2017
Case History:  https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Helen%20and%20Blessing
Photo Album:  https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=6847

I so agree!!  It was absolutely wonderful and I hope you consider using the same format in the future.  It makes the conference a reality for those of us who might not have been able to attend otherwise.  Thank you thank you!!!!

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Sherry & Pepper, August 2015, No. Calif

Case History:  https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Sherry%20and%20Pepper

Photo Album:  https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=5798  .

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Ferne Fedeli  Magic & Jack   2007

No. California
Case History

 

 

I agree with the other posts. What a line up of informative speakers!  Although I was only to take in a handful of speakers live, I look forward to when the recordings will be available. This was a fantastic format to offer the conference. Had it not been virtual, I would not have been able to attend at all!  Thanks to all the organizers and speakers. You dedication for No Laminitis is truly appreciated! 
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Judy and Bugsy

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Feb. 25, 2020

https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Judy%20and%20Bugsy
https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=243358

 

On Thursday morning, a line of thunderstorms crossed over southeast Michigan and I lost power through Saturday night and internet was only fully restored this morning. So I missed the entire conference and will have to wait for the recordings. Fortunately didn't experience any structural damage to our farm, but it sure sucked to know the conference was going on and I could not attend. There are still areas of SE Michigan that are without power and the little town of Milan just east of me was hit particularly hard with straight line winds, roof damage , and broken power poles and trees right in town. Nationally, this barely made news but there are 3,000 power crews from many states and Canada here to help restore power for which we are thankful.
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Dawn Wagstaff and Tipperary   

Saline, MI  2003

Tipperary Case History

Juniper Case history: https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Dawn%20and%20Juniper/Case%20history%20Juniper.pdf .

I was about to write a post about this, so will take advantage of this one, thanks for doing it Helen.

Just wanted to express my gratitude, for the very well organized conference, all worked like Swiss machinery, the moderators were awesome at their work getting all the questions, providing links and guiding speakers and audience.

I was amazed at the quality of the materials, tons of knowledge concentrated in three days that far from being dense, was put in the most entertaining way. I was fearing that some of the material were too advanced to be understood by myself, and they were, but then these wonderful speakers made their presentations easy to digest for the ones less knowledgeable, so I finally ended up with tons of notes and things to think about.

Seing all these professionals discussing the materials in the same shared screen almost brought tears to my eyes, left me speechless.

Thank you all for the huge effort done, for answering every question as the most important one, for being in the other side of the screen for hours just to inform us and for doing it with a big smile.

Thank you to all the speakers, the moderators, the people who asked questions so that all could learn from it, the team behind the scenes and the people who attended and made it possible.

Attending to the conference was absolutely a privilege for me and hope this format is kept for the following years.

Congratulations for the good work and also looking forward to the link as I couldn´t attend two presentations and lost some info due to the language. Was hard this part haha.

Dawn, so sorry you couldn´t attend and happy you are all fine.

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María Durán Navarro 
Dec 2017
Madrid (Spain)

Plutón´s Case History
Plutón´s Photo Album

OUTSTANDING conference! I was actually SAD when it ended even though it went overtime on Sunday. I would have sat there all day long again.

And talk about a Power Panel!! Absolutely loved the Q and A’s at the end of the day - rapid fire answers to intelligent questions. 

Dr. K’s ability to recall studies off the cuff is mind boggling.

Shannon drilled it into everyone’s mind (without making us feel guilty) that EXERCISE is key. In the middle of horrible wildfire smoke, I’m doing my best by spacing my hay and water 600+ feet apart and making my 3 horses go uphill to get water. Small holed hay nets and so far so good. Hope the smoke stops soon so I can ride without hurting my horses’ lungs. 

And whew! Saturday morning was one heck of a genetics lesson. Loved it!  Kathleen’s approach to balancing and no nonsense supplementation was so refreshing. After taking Dr. K’s online nutrition class several years ago, I’m always bugging my trimming clients about diet and now I have more DATA to preach! 

Super cool to listen to Pete, Paige and Bob hash out trimming and booting techniques and theories. (Over 20 years ago I sent my PPID horse’s front feet to Bob for research!)  

Thank you is woefully inadequate for how much everyone worked to put this on - moderators, tech support and attendees.

BRAVO!! Everyone needs to give themselves a pat on the back. Job well done - you all knocked it out of the park/arena!   

I agree with keeping it online next time too - at least an option to do so since I wouldn’t have been able to attend otherwise. Thank you again.

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Pamela Swartz
Nevada City, CA

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Donna Coughlin, Robin Goodfellow and Ariel Max; Duke (5/21) and Obi (5/17) over the Rainbow Bridge

CT 2009

 

 

Well what can I add , I got a big kick out of dr. Bowkers cat making his appearances too!
I could have listened to that man all day, I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated everyone that contributed. I too missed a lot (work) so I’m looking forward to watching it when available.
I am also very grateful it was held virtually because I wouldn’t have been able to attend either.
Thank you everyone from the speaker’s to the people that made it work so seamlessly.
It was amazing and I’m already passing along what I learned.
Bravo 👏


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Bobbie and Desi (over the rainbow bridge 7/21)
Utah, Nov 2019
NRC Plus 2020 , NAT , C&IR March 2021

https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Bobbie%20and%20Desi

https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=78821

yes i agree was a terrific conference  and such great speakers ; so much education; i ,too, look forward to the uploads as missed some of them.  thank you to the entire ecir staff for all of your hard work. daisy and tiko
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Daisy, Tiko and Whisper
CO, April 2019
Case History:  https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Daisy%20and%20Tiko 
Photo Album: https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=90099&p=Name,,,20,2,0,0

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 12:58 PM, Lynne wrote:

Thank you all for a great virtual conference, it gave me the opportunity to participate.  I was most impressed with how smoothly it ran, how easy it was to connect each night  (my first virtual conference, participating from Australia).   The content was invaluable, answering  many questions I and providing a lot of new information.   My only negative was the 15 hour time difference which meant starting at 11pm and going through till 6-7 am was somewhat challenging for 3 nights,  so I am very glad we will be able to follow up and review sessions!

Many thanks again

Lynne

Canberra, Australia

Hello Lynne, from another Canberran!
I'm so glad you enjoyed the conference, and thank you for your kind feedback. I did not manage to sit up all night either, and I am certainly looking forward to viewing the recordings. 
Just letting you know that if you need any specific suggestions for individual horses, you can find case history instructions here: main@ECIR.groups.io | Wiki

And of course, if you have any questions about material covered at the conference, feel free to start a new thread and ask here in the Messages. 

Cheers
 
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Maxine and Indy (PPID) and Dangles (PPID)

Canberra, Australia 2010
ECIR Primary Response

https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Maxine%20and%20Indy%20and%20Dangles 
https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/album?id=933

 

Something I forgot to mention in my previous thank you note above.

I encourage everyone to donate to ECIR. Without this group of volunteers and educators, we would truly be in the dark (ages).  It was extremely apparent to me during the conference that this would be the case.

i’m donating $ again today. Such an amazing resource. 
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Pamela Swartz
Nevada City, CA

https://www.ecirhorse.org/how-to-help-ECIR.php
just in case you need the donation link 😇
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Pamela Swartz

Nevada City, CA

I would like to second everything said earlier in this post—it was an amazing amount of clearly conveyed information and Iook forward to rewatching the whole conference.

I had the conference on as I was getting ready to leave the house and my husband caught part of the DNA discussion and was greatly impressed with how the presenter managed to communicate pretty complicated  information to a scientifically diverse group without sacrificing any of the scientific message.

My husband teaches human anatomy and physiology at our local Community College and says it’s what he struggles with every day with his students that come from a variety of Science backgrounds.

Chris
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Chris H in CA 2021

Good evening from Spain,

Maybe it has been mentioned already but, will the link to the conference be announced here when it is ready, or do we need to ask individually to any given email?

Thank you.

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María Durán Navarro 
Dec 2017
Madrid (Spain)

Plutón´s Case History
Plutón´s Photo Album

Thanks Sherry.
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María Durán Navarro 
Dec 2017
Madrid (Spain)

Plutón´s Case History
Plutón´s Photo Album