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HORSE FACT FRIDAY: PPID OR CUSHINGS

Friday, October 25, 2024

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 My apologies for missing the last two weeks of Horse Fact Friday. I've just been so busy with my own sick horse that this hasn't been the priority. Since I do research for these blogs, they are a little more time consuming to write than ones where I just share my feelings, thoughts, and life. But we are back this week, talking about a condition that affects a large number of horses as the...
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POPTART AND THE BACK BUMP

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

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PopTart just had a check up at the vet. After she had Karma, I noticed a bump on her back in the lumbar area. It was never hot or swollen. It just looked off to me. Combined with previous feelings that she was off, and her cross firing issues in the past I wanted to get her checked out before we went back to work. So when we took Hootie for his re-check, she tagged along. Now, PopTart is...
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HOOTIE UPDATE

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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 We have been struggling with this guy. We got him in January, and it's been a little bit of a rough road. This is why even free horses are not free. In this photo he's been with us about a month, during which time we've struggled to get his persistent diarrhea under control. His former owner said he'd had it on and off for several years. What you can't really see in this photo is a...
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INVISIBLE STRING: POPTART

Monday, October 14, 2024

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 I have discussed this topic before, but it's always a good one to review. It's about buying a horse. I'm also tying this one in to my Invisible String (it was Invisible Forces, but I guess Taylor Swift wanted me to name it after her song...who am I to argue?) Now when I bought this red mare that I call PopTart, I was coming off of not having a horse for about ten years. I had also had my...
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INVISIBLE STRING: FOXY

Monday, October 7, 2024

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 me + Foxycirca 1986If you've been here for a minute you'll remember how I started the Invisible String series to share horses who have been special to me throughout my life. None are so special as the first. My first horse was a pony, named Foxy. My grandpa heard about her from a friend of his, Bob. She had been abandoned in a pasture by his house, and he had taken her to his...
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HORSE FACT FRIDAY: LET'S TALK ABOUT KISSING SPINE

Friday, October 4, 2024

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 T13 T15 T17What is it?Commonly called kissing spine, this is overriding or impinging dorsal spinous processes (ORDSP). It happens when the vertebrae are too close together so that they are touching or overlapping in the bony projections. It is most common in the thoracic spine with through T13-T18 with T15 being the most affected. This area is directly under the saddle and where the rider...
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