My 12-year old Holsteiner mare needs more energy. I just got her results back from Cornell and she is not IR or Cushing's like my gelding Pabatsa. Generally speaking, what would be best to give her a

Hi all, I noticed Stabul 1, while on the safe list, has an analysis of 5% starch and 5% sugar. I had a client increase to 1.5lbs of Stabul 1 and he became footsore and seemingly had a laminitic setbac

Hi group, My 28yo IR/PPID has been consistently, moderately low in serum albumin/globulins for the past year. All other bloodwork is good, incl ACTH/insulin/BG (honestly, the best they’ve ever been).

Hi group! I’m looking for some input on an issue that may be familiar to others who live in a rural area. My local vet doesn’t test Glucose when pulling blood for baseline ACTH and Insulin due to the

I actually do grind up the Metformin with a mortar and pestle, mix it with some Stevia and a bit of water and syringe it into my pony’s mouth, but I’d love not to have to do that to him. My question i

Hi Daisy, For my guy we use Poulin Carb Safe. Thanks, Sherry and Scutch (and Scarlet over the bridge) EC Primary Response PA 2014 https://ecir.groups.io/g/CaseHistory/files/Sherry%20and%20Scutch_Scarl

Hi, my Name is Ducka Kelly, I am hoping I can get some IR/PPID recommendations from you? I have a sweet Haflinger in her 20’s. On 8/30/2022 I received results on Insulin and ACTH tests on her from Cor

We were hoping to get this teff hay shipped in for Jack. It's the lowest ESC+starch of any hay locally. I just received the wet chem analysis and it has 1,250 ppm iron. I've not dealt with high iron h

There are several people that offered good advice on helping Lou...one common piece of advice was to treat him for ulcers...Here is a 25 day transformation of him on Abprazole ulcer medication (tablet

Good morning. I've read and re-read the directions for non-fasted insulin/glucose testing. However, I'm wondering if I may have misinterpreted the directions. I feed at 7:00 am hay and minerals in sma

Has anyone had any experiance with or heard any information about horses and stem cell tech, in particular LifeWave X39TM? A friend sent me links to look it up. One is a u tube video and the other is

Hi - I private messaged Lavinia - or at least I thought I did earlier in week - but if someone sees and can help - this is mya’s 3rd trim - tomorrow sept 22 @ 11 central - I wanted to see if I could g

Hi Everyone, Gracie has been on Metformin for 12 days so I am having her blood drawn on Friday so see if it's helping her. I have two questions. 1. I give Gracie her Metformin with Stabul 1 twice a da

Has anyone ever or if it possible to switch medications from Prascend to something herbal? We first tested my mini last year of last year for Cushings and he was within normal range (27 pg/mL). But as

Hi. I think I found some worth looking at. Would you mind looking over this report to see what you think for an IR pony? Sorry for the long link. It was a stored Facebook image. ESC 6.1 Protein 9 Star

Joker was eating the Metformin powder in his "grain" for a while now he does not want to eat it. Before I resort to just syringing it are there some suggestions to get the horse to eat it. He was leav

Over on the Horsekeeping list, this possible sweet itch vaccine was mentioned, and this article is dated 2021: https://equusmagazine.com/diseases/sweet-itch-vaccine/ I wondered if there is anything ne

So I FINALLY got my gelding’s blood work done yesterday. However this is something my vet sends off rather than running in-house so I now have the pleasure of waiting for the results. Talk about nerve

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Just to let you all know, Midnight likely did not have anhidrosis but some sort of RAO. My vet put her on a cortisteroid inhaler for 10 days and by day 3 she was breathing normally. It remains to be s