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from the springtime link in my post:

Horses: Give one scoop (approx. 2 1/2 oz – density varies from batch to batch) daily per 1,000 lb horse. For best results, start out with just a sprinkle for the first few days and increase gradually to at least one full scoop per day. Dosage may be doubled for performance, breeding or high stress situations.
Important: If stored at room temperature, best used within 6 months after opening. (For longer storage, please refrigerate.)

I’m surprised you didn’t like it. I found it to be quite palatable. Quality of product varies. The stuff Springtime sells is little balls ranging in color from dark red to light golden….. and smells like………well, springtime!

Near Horse, sore backs can look anywhere from irritability to balking to bucking, depending on what is going on, and how activity/tack is effecting whatever is sore. If you press down the spine about an inch and a half out on either side, you can usually pinpoint pain spots. Back will drop out from under your hand. Another test is to take some hay or grain and get horse to follow it around to each shoulder. He should be able to bring his muzzle all the way around to touch the shoulder. If he can’t, it might be chiropractor time.

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@NovaStew 7482 wrote:

Thanks for all the responses-I’ve heard of Paul, sounds like a guy I should contact anyway. Jason, in your experience, what is the success rate with A.I. in horses? I’ve heard mixed reviews.

I don’t have any figures, but my vet and I once collected my stallion with a home made collector (trash bag, bailing twine and duct tape, couple of coat hangers) and settled a mare with no problem. Dr. had just been to a seminar that included information of chemical ejaculation procedure and wanted to try it out. Horse Viagra!
The vet has also rec’d semen in Dr. Pepper bottles, and gotten mares settled with the contents. So it doesn’t seem like rocket science. lol, just make sure that pop bottle is real clean, at least as clean as a trash bag! The stallion urinated in the bag first go round, and as I recall, we just hosed it out with water, and tied it on again.
Fun in the country, eh?

I can attest to the magnificence of Jason’s Rudy. I’ve watched him work in the woods and seen him at liberty at home. They both do clean up beautifully. Also have met several of Rudy’s get. You couldn’t ask for prettier or more gentle and willing colts!

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I had a horse years ago that was diagnosed with early renal failure. At wits end, and hand grazing daily on what little grass we had, I got a catalog from Springtime Inc, and decided to give the bee pollen a shot. Within a week, coat quality improved, and a month later, he had gained weight and his urine showed normal kidney numbers. It’s expensive, but it saved his life.

Can help solve ulcers caused by lack of grazing*

I also have a horse that dropped weight dramatically winter before last, as soon as they went off grass. Did the same thing this year. I have not used the bee pollen on him, as he is very old, and it’s a choice between that and the backhoe. He’s picking up now that grass is coming on, so I guess he’s got another summer. I’ll no doubt put him down come fall. I did treat him with a panacur power pack, and that helped some. (link for info only, I don’t recommend or not recommend this particular store)

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At least they never did here on the farm. 20+ years ago, neighbor had pigs in the lot at the foot of the driveway, where we turn up to get onto the trail. The horses living here were always terrified, and would hesitate to approach the pen, then want to scoot until they were past it. Some of them did learn to pretend they were calm, but their eyes would roll back in their heads, and sweat would break out in the usual places.
They never got over it. Long after the pigs were gone, the horses still were determined to scoot, convinced that those leg-slashers were in hiding, waiting to ambush.
It’s taken a whole new generation of horses, raised since the pig pen has been given over to calves and goats, to have anybody walk calmly around the corner.

Thanks for the laugh, and the memories.

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I had to google around to see what’s cheapest on the net. I get it from my vet, who started carrying it after I showed him what it did on rain rot.
Here’s the cheapest I could find. http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/prod/202808/i/1/p/1/product.web?printable=yes 20 bucks for 32 oz sprayer. That doesn’t include shipping….. seems costly, I know. But after I saw what it does, and how useful it is with so many skin problems, I don’t mind paying it. He’s now charging 26 bucks, but I always shut my eyes and slap the money down before I run out…..

Disclaimer: I have never used it on feet. But I would, if a mystery problem came up. Guess I’d trim the frog up, scrub out good w/peroxide and spray soak some 4x4s or cotton, and pack in with duct tape bandage for a couple of days, then take a look….

Here’s a link for comparison shopping…….there are several at around 20 bucks, and you might find a place closer to you, save a bit on shipping if you decide to buy.

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It looks as though you have trimmed the apex (which is the most helpful in regard to landmarks), but I would extend that trim all the way back to heels.

And you might try Eqyss micro-tek on it. It’s a product that came out of the space program, developed to decontaminate everything returning to Earth….
It works on all kinds of things from poison ivy on me to rain-rot on the beasts. Takes care of ringworm with a couple of applications……. It kills viral things as well as bacterial.

If there are pockets that are too deep to cut out, try squirting whatever you are using into them with a syringe (sans needle). Be careful of it squirting back into your face, which will happen if it’s applied with too much force, or the tip of syringe contacts frog surface.

Is also helpful in general to develop a relationship with vet of choice where you can call and pick his/her brain w/’o farm call.

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I witnessed a chicken funeral some years ago. We had added half a dozen hens to the existing flock of old girls. I think there were 5 left of the “Old Guard”. About a year later, the head hen died. We buried her beside the garden. As the last tamping down of the grave was taking place, the flock, which had been watching with interest, quietly came over. As we stepped back, they stepped up to the grave. The rooster crowed. One by one, the hens of the Old Guard walked to the grave, scratched once, and walked on to stand at the other side of it. Each time, the rooster crowed. It seemed that was the signal for the next hen to go. The newbie hens stood in a semi-circle, and after the original girls did their homage, they walked around the grave to join the Old ones, but did not stop and scratch. Rooster crowed again, and they departed for the pasture.

I have no experience with cows, but a couple of interesting ones with pre-death communication as well as grief in horses.
The most notable was an old broodmare, 3 days post foaling. She coliced. I called vet, and administered IM banamine while I awaited his arrival. Walked her. The banamine eased her up for just a few minutes, then she went bad again. The second shot did nothing, and I knew she was in serious trouble, and so did she. As we walked slowly around, she started hollering. Her best buddy answered from out in the pasture. Their talking got faster and more furious, and Foxy galloped to the gate, in a panic. We stopped there, and Daisy and Fox touched noses, chuffing and gently nickering to each other. Then, having said what I thought was goodbyes, Foxy turned and galloped off. Daisy was euthanized not long after the vet arrived, having a belly full of blood.
I did not witness any sign of grief in Foxy, and wonder if that conversation played a role. Nor do I remember any signs in the foal. I think becoming an orphan at so early an age does not seem an abnormal thing to baby, having so little experience with life and death.

The death of the old stallion was also interesting from the communication point of view. Bear got down, could not get up. He was in his stall, with Foxy in an adjoining stall. We propped him up on his sternum with a hay bale, waited for the vet. As he was injected, he started a communication with Foxy. He was worried, and she seemed to be comforting him. After he was removed to the pasture where he would be buried, Foxy and Mona, the two mares with whom he had run at liberty for years, became highly agitated and stood fretting at the gate to an adjoining pasture. I fed them some Star of Bethlehem tincture, and they settled a bit, but only became calm after I turned them into the pasture with him. They thundered over, sniffed his body thoroughly, and then went to grazing calmly, only occasionally looking over at him.

Has anybody else experienced such pre-death communication in any of their animals?

This is a very interesting thread! My thanks to everybody for their stories.

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@dominiquer60 6027 wrote:

….. get more people involved with letting the government know where there place is, not in my pocket and not in my business.

Erika

Whelp, that’s why I included the link. Hope all who see this will write their representatives…. Squeaky wheels and all that….

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To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to improve the safety of food, meat, and poultry products through enhanced traceability, and for other purposes.

Get it? “Enhanced traceability”.

‘SEC. 414A. TRACEABILITY OF FOOD.

‘(a) Establishment of System- Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary shall establish a traceability system described in subsection (b) for all stages of manufacturing, processing, packaging, and distribution of food.

‘(b) Description of System- The traceability system required by subsection (a) shall require each article of food shipped in interstate commerce to be identified in a manner that enables the Secretary to retrieve the history, use, and location of the article through a recordkeeping and audit system or registered identification.

Full text 814.

Meat, polutry and egg products. Read ‘er and weep. Then contact your legislators. With particular attention to Rep. Diana DeGette [D, CO-1] and her 2 co-sponsers on 814, * Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D, GU-0]
* Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D, CT-3] * Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D, NY-8] and the House Ag Committee as well.

HR 875, brought to you by

Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Ms. ESHOO, Ms. DEGETTE, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. ENGEL, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut, Ms. SUTTON, Mrs. LOWEY, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. SCHAUER, Mr. NADLER of New York, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Ms. GIFFORDS, Mr. FILNER, Mr. HALL of New York, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. PINGREE of Maine, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, and Mr. DEFAZIO)

Now this one doesn’t get scary until you get down to definitions. This

The term ‘adulterated’ includes bearing or containing a contaminant that causes illness or death among sensitive populations………..(10) CONTAMINANT- The term ‘contaminant’ includes a bacterium, chemical, natural toxin or manufactured toxicant, virus, parasite, prion, physical hazard, or other human pathogen that when found on or in food can cause human illness, injury, or death.

could mean that they’re going to take all those nasty chemical cancer causing contaminants out of our food, huh?

But here’s another definition.

(14) FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITY- The term ‘food production facility’ means any farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation.

That’s you and me, buddy. Gotta post, curser is starting to act like a 5 year old broodmare off the range……

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@jenjudkins 5447 wrote:

I really like to believe horses understand the fragility of children…my horses always seem to act that way around them…but who knows.

Jen, my good horse Timmy (called Saint Tim by some) humored my fragility one day. I was taking my aged trail dog back to camp, after he had refused to go on. He was arthritic and I had known his time on the trail was coming to an end. I told the folks to go on, I’d just take Snappie back and ride out on another trail, maybe catch them coming in. I was busted up, having ridden with Snap for over 10 years. Blubbering and unable to see clearly. Saint Tim never looked back at his herd riding away. Never twitched an ear or made a sound. I finally thought “Annie, suck. it. up, girl!” and quit the blubbering. As soon as I got control of myself, Timmy started dancing around and calling to the other horses. Nothing major, but enough assing around that I knew he had been taking care of his old ma.:p

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Mr. Berry getting some national press. He was my pick for head of USDA.
Dream on, eh?

Industrial agricultural has made our food supply entirely dependent on fossil fuels and, by substituting technological “solutions” for human work and care, has virtually destroyed the cultures of husbandry (imperfect as they may have been) once indigenous to family farms and farming neighborhoods.

This place gives me hope for the resurgence of husbandry.

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Over the decades, I’ve bought rare/organic seed from a lot of sources. Once I found Baker Creek, I’ve only glanced back in the most fleeting way.
Check these folks out! http://rareseeds.com/ Jere Gettle and his wife are amazing. Look around far enough to see their cowboy get-ups!
Were I closer to Missouri, I’d go visit.

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place is Baker Creek in Mo. http://rareseeds.com/
I’ve bought a couple of years from them, and saved seed. My Blue Hubbards are huge and wonderful!

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Sludge application on farm and forest and from municipal waste tx plants has reared it’s smelly and toxic head here in Va. Again. Virginia Tech, funded by the Devil himself, is at the forefront along with Big Ag, pushing hard. And of course local boards are glad to have the stuff taken off their hands, despite the health hazards involved. Folks don’t seem to understand that this is not just shit they’re talking about.
One more thing to write a polite yet outraged letter about. Sigh.

Luckily, there’s a strong community against NAIS. We just all need to keep being vocal.

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