Fat horse/Cresty

[heidi sowards <ribbitttreefrog@yahoo.com>]

Hi all, Tom's board just had a thread on this very subject.
Check for a magnesium deficiency and if possible go to
Tom's board and do a search under easy keeper, I'll see if
I can find the info. for you, Eleanor Kellon DVM has an
article out in horse and rider or one of those re: this
subject.  Hope this helps!


heidi


--- Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com> wrote:
> Hi Karen
> Are you sure his name isn't Summiteer? I have the same
> gelding and I
> have tried everything from the panacur purge to psillium.
> Summy only
> gets ridden every few weekends and is out on the
> pasture--- only one who
> is THAT fat and with THAT cresty a neck.
> I would also be interested in feedback.
> Oh, BTW he was moving stiff behind so I had him checked
> at Dr. Charlie
> Boles (my guru). He said that he had hock syndrome (? I
> forget if that
> was the exact term he used) caused by inactivity during
> the winter.
> Instead of all the fancy and VERY expensive treatments,
> he recommended
> that we try this first before bringing out the "heavy
> artillery of
> Adequin etc: 
> You give 4 butes/day for the first week, 2 AM and 2 PM
> AND you have to
> work them HARD for 20-30 minutes at least 6 days/week---
> trot or canter;
> next week 3 butes, 2 AM and 1PM and again the 6-7 day
> workout; 3rd week
> 2 butes, 1AM, 1 PM and the workout; and the last week 1
> bute in the AM.
> He said most times that will solve the stiffness in the
> hocks.
> I just took Napadki into the arena now that it is no
> longer flooded.
> After weeks of being cooped up in a stall with paddock
> (you can't
> exactly let a stallion run with the gang in pasture
> unless you want to
> be foaling full time the next year), I noticed he was
> moving like a
> hooker after a hard night ;-) Since the video I saw of
> him earlier had
> him moving like Halynov, I knew the boy must be stiff.
> I'll let you know
> how this works on him. 
> Just thought I'd pass this little inexpensive tip on...
> At last a vet
> who is NOT putting his kids through college at my
> expense!!!
> Bette 
> Bette Lamore
> Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of 16.2hh TLA Halynov	
> (Yes, really 16.2!)
> http://www.arabiansporthorse.com
> 
> 
> > Sullivan's wrote:
> > 
> > I th ought I would throw this out in hopes of helping
> my friend with
> > her perplexing problem.  She has an 8  or 9 year old
> gelding that she
> > just cannot get the weight off.  He is some sort of
> Appy/QH cross, and
> > is ridden regularly on hilly and hard rides several
> times a week.  He
> > has seemed to, over the past several years, to have
> added continually
> > to a layer of fat, that shows over his croup and is now
> causing a
> > cresty neck.
> > He has done several 50 mile rides, is very fit in terms
> of climbing
> > steep hills, and can keep up a steady pace with my big
> Arab/walker
> > cross.
> > 
> > He is ridden about twice as much as my horses, and
> keeps adding
> > weight.
> > 
> > The problem may be partly that all her horses are on
> irrigated
> > pasture, but even the ones that aren't ridden as much
> aren't this
> > fat.  He is now pulled off the pasture into a dry lot
> (which really
> > pissed him off), and given some grass hay. He gets no
> grain.
> > 
> > Does this sound like any kind of a thyroid problem or
> something
> > similiar?
> > 
> > Because of all his extra weight, he sweats profusely,
> and has problems
> > cooling.  I see the kind of riding she does compared to
> me, and it
> > just does not make sense.  At this point, with my big
> mare being
> > ridden LESS, I stil have her currenlty on green
> pasture, give huge
> > vats of soaked beet pulp and corn oil, alfalfa and
> grass hays......in
> > the effort to keep the weight on her......and I can see
> she is
> > dropping slightly.  If my mare is a condition 5 right
> now,  this guy
> > would be pushing an 8......
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Karen
> 
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