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Dr. Clair talks to Dr Joe Pagan owner and President of Kentucky Equine Research (KER). In addition to doing equine nutrition and exercise physiology related research work, KER have also sourced the fe...
Ulcers. Hoof growth, determining how much a horse should eat, magnesium.
I started feeding my older dude with ulcer and leaky gut a no hay diet and he actually got better! No more diarrhea and he looks fantastic! He's only 23, but he had trauma early in life. I never thought he could live without hay. Could you talk more about specific senior horse diets?
Since so much of the country is experiencing intense heat right now, we wanted to reshare an episode we recorded last year on Scoop and Scale Podcast.
💡🤯Did you know an 1,100-pound horse at maintenance on a COOL day needs the amount of sodium provided by about 1 ounce or 2 U.S. Tablespoons of sodium chloride. This equates to your horse eating just under 2 pound salt block a month!
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great tip.
I used to sprinkle some salt on the hay to help. Does that make sense?
I feed the 2 tablespoons daily of pink salt. I'm still confused about adding the other electrolyte ingredients as well as pink vs. white salt. She is on a balancer and forage only. Located in Southern California.
Wonder what goes on behind-the-scenes and what it takes to get horses to major international competitions? In this episode Dr. Clair and Michelle are joined by Max Corcoran, a freelance groom, equestr...
It has been a long time since we shared an update on Dartmouth. In part because it hasn't seemed like anything particularly dramatic has been happening but that is why photos are so useful. Day to day it doesn't seem like much has changed in the last couple of months but then when you line up the photos you start to see subtle yet important changes. He is holding and carrying his body and posture very differently than he was. This is less the result of nutrition and more the result of the work he has been doing although of course that work has to be supported by good nutrition.
We also moved barns just over a week ago and he has struggled a bit with the transition as the new property is surrounded by cows which he believes may in fact eat him. He also now has a box stall with a run and when he is in the stall he can't easily see other horses so initially spent a lot of time going in and out to make sure the herd were keeping an eye on the cows when he wasn't. This meant that instead of peacefully eating meals have become grab and goes.
Combine this with a rather dramatic reaction to fly bites causing him to be covered with welts. With our vet's advice I started him on Zyrtec but he wasn't settled enough to reliably eat his grain and with the walking in and out dropped some weight. He really looked like a picture right before his 180 day photos. It was a shame because while I was in England for a month visiting family he was with our dressage trainer and was looking amazing. I thought he might actually look worse than he did for the last pictures. But the pictures tell a different story.
While he has lost a little condition over the top of his rump overall his topline muscling has improved especially through the neck. His haunches have filled out, but I notice that the right hindquarter is not as developed as the left. This is something we will investigate further over the next weeks.
It's tempting when things start to head in the wrong direction to panic and make a lot of changes. But staying the course is often the right answer. Instead of changing his diet in response to the last week we changed how he was given his feed. He will eat the Zyrtec out of my hand so that removes the stress of him needing to eat all his grain. He was covering his grain with hay and then not realizing the grain was there so we moved things around in the stall so that is less likely to happen. And we quietly worked away at the cow phobia so that a week later he's really not so bothered about them any more.
Often with horses patience and time are the solution rather than magic bullets.
“It's tempting when things start to head in the wrong direction to panic and make a lot of changes. But staying the course is often the right answer.”
I love this statement!
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Ep. 27: Behind the Scenes at the Summer Games with Dr. Joe Pagan -Part 2 - Scoop & Scale
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I feed half an organic carrot chopped up into smaller pieces in their buckets so they don't get too much sugar.
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Ulcers. Hoof growth, determining how much a horse should eat, magnesium.
I started feeding my older dude with ulcer and leaky gut a no hay diet and he actually got better! No more diarrhea and he looks fantastic! He's only 23, but he had trauma early in life. I never thought he could live without hay. Could you talk more about specific senior horse diets?
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Since so much of the country is experiencing intense heat right now, we wanted to reshare an episode we recorded last year on Scoop and Scale Podcast.
💡🤯Did you know an 1,100-pound horse at maintenance on a COOL day needs the amount of sodium provided by about 1 ounce or 2 U.S. Tablespoons of sodium chloride. This equates to your horse eating just under 2 pound salt block a month!
🐴🧂🐴🧂Are you feeding 2 tablespoons of salt daily? ... See MoreSee Less
Ep. 6: Electrolytes, Hydration, and Why Your Horse Probably Needs More Salt - Scoop & Scale
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great tip. I used to sprinkle some salt on the hay to help. Does that make sense?
I feed the 2 tablespoons daily of pink salt. I'm still confused about adding the other electrolyte ingredients as well as pink vs. white salt. She is on a balancer and forage only. Located in Southern California.
New episode of Scoop and Scale Podcast with special guest Max Corcoran!🎙️🐴
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Ep. 26: Behind the Scenes at the Summer Games with Max Corcoran - Part 1 - Scoop & Scale
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Wonder what goes on behind-the-scenes and what it takes to get horses to major international competitions? In this episode Dr. Clair and Michelle are joined by Max Corcoran, a freelance groom, equestr...1 CommentComment on Facebook
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It has been a long time since we shared an update on Dartmouth. In part because it hasn't seemed like anything particularly dramatic has been happening but that is why photos are so useful. Day to day it doesn't seem like much has changed in the last couple of months but then when you line up the photos you start to see subtle yet important changes. He is holding and carrying his body and posture very differently than he was. This is less the result of nutrition and more the result of the work he has been doing although of course that work has to be supported by good nutrition.
We also moved barns just over a week ago and he has struggled a bit with the transition as the new property is surrounded by cows which he believes may in fact eat him. He also now has a box stall with a run and when he is in the stall he can't easily see other horses so initially spent a lot of time going in and out to make sure the herd were keeping an eye on the cows when he wasn't. This meant that instead of peacefully eating meals have become grab and goes.
Combine this with a rather dramatic reaction to fly bites causing him to be covered with welts. With our vet's advice I started him on Zyrtec but he wasn't settled enough to reliably eat his grain and with the walking in and out dropped some weight. He really looked like a picture right before his 180 day photos. It was a shame because while I was in England for a month visiting family he was with our dressage trainer and was looking amazing. I thought he might actually look worse than he did for the last pictures. But the pictures tell a different story.
While he has lost a little condition over the top of his rump overall his topline muscling has improved especially through the neck. His haunches have filled out, but I notice that the right hindquarter is not as developed as the left. This is something we will investigate further over the next weeks.
It's tempting when things start to head in the wrong direction to panic and make a lot of changes. But staying the course is often the right answer. Instead of changing his diet in response to the last week we changed how he was given his feed. He will eat the Zyrtec out of my hand so that removes the stress of him needing to eat all his grain. He was covering his grain with hay and then not realizing the grain was there so we moved things around in the stall so that is less likely to happen. And we quietly worked away at the cow phobia so that a week later he's really not so bothered about them any more.
Often with horses patience and time are the solution rather than magic bullets.
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“It's tempting when things start to head in the wrong direction to panic and make a lot of changes. But staying the course is often the right answer.” I love this statement!