Re: Horse People

Posted by Billy NY on August 15, 2012 at 12:03:51 from (67.248.100.3):

In Reply to: Re: Horse People posted by JML755 on August 15, 2012 at 10:57:46:

Its a good point you made in this post. For whatever reason, colic is an extremely serious concern, I can attest to this by all the years of dealing with thoroughbreds.

I do know the funky/eccentric types, in the equine world, that stigma will never leave and I swore when I was a kid, that some of the people I saw at shows were absolutely the strangest, my opinion though, yet instinct was always right, many of the male trainers, seem to have an affinity for their own gender, will leave it at that.

Anyone who deals in hay around here experiences the odd ones with eccentric ways, and or analysis of hay etc.

We have always been sensible, but the concern is real, you do not fool with feed when it comes to horses.

We try to feed the best hay that can be found, afforded or is available. Years back we did all our own hay and alfalfa, never bought, so we know whats involved, many people in the equine community do not. I like to know and see the fields the hay comes from, what the crop looks like, nice to see it on the ground before baling, easy way to know what you are getting, even better, have someone run the baler and stack from a kicker if you want to see whats what, I used to do that myself. Horses we've had do seem to pick over undesirable things but when feeding, I look over each pad of hay when handling, checking for mold or dust. We have one horse with a respiratory ailment, have to wet the hay for him.

Colic can be fatal, so that 6 year investment into a jumper could literally be doused in gasoline and lit up, then there those that require surgery, they're never right or look right after and there is recovery time, re-sale depreciation because of it. The worst is when one colics and you have to scramble to get the horse to a facility like Cornell, a few hours west of us, 3 feet of snow on the trailer roof, tires and wheel bearings to check out, truck with a lot of miles on it, trans slips, theres only 3 of you, one has health issues, can't help, and you live 30 miles away, planned on going home that night, its 0 degrees F out vet says he has to go to Cornell, or he's done, this horse was our best prospect too. Try to walk in arena sand in heavy winter boots and you have a 1600 lb + horse that wants to go down, someone, (me) had to walk him and crack the whip to keep him up and you know he was in a lot of pain. He made it because of our diligence, but never again, truck and trailer are ready 24 hrs, always on site, what an experience, vet flat out said if you guys did not do what you did, he'd have been done, thankfully no surgery, thats a lot of time and money down the drain, you have to eliminate feed contributing to this. I am not sure but this guy is prone to colic, large body cavity, he rolls completely from one side to another, the pipes could get tangled is what they figure, so I was extremely careful anytime I saw him roll like that, would always work him, get him fired up to run around and settle things, might be wives tale type solution, colic is something I truly hate about horses.

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