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We have the equine dentist in our area twice a year
for some and once a year for others.  She only charges
$40 per horse (no farm call).    As opposed to getting
the vet here at $75 per farm call and then the
floating on top of that(and not a good enough job in
my opinion).   Besides you wouldn't call the (human)
doctor if you needed dental work would you??  Yes the
dentist can do miricles with their teeth and I find
the cost a lot less. Plus they can find broken teeth
and such that the vet would not notice and either
extract them or file them down smooth so the horse is
more comfortable eating.

--- David LeBlanc <dleblanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> Trail Pal said:
>
> > Nuts!  I bought some powdered rice bran to balance
> the 
> > calcium in the beetpulp I feed.  
> > Susan Garlinghouse, DVM said:
>  
> > > If your horses won't eat fat unless it's rice
> bran, and you can't swallow
> the price of stabilized brands, then I'd skip
> feeding fats entirely until
> you win the lottery.
>
> We used to have problems keeping weight on one of
> our's, then we had Sarah
> Metcalf do his teeth properly. He'd been floated
> before, but a real equine
> dentist is a LOT different than floating. At any
> rate, we haven't had a
> problem since, and he did 15 rides this year on not
> much more than beet
> pulp, hay, and a little Strategy. Mostly beet pulp
> and hay, and he went
> through the whole season just a tad chubby. Before
> that, we tried all sorts
> of things, nothing worked.
>
> Anyway, the equine dentist may seem like a lot of
> $$, but if you subtract
> out the savings on feed, it probably pays off in a
> few months. I'm sure it
> isn't the answer for everyone, but next time I have
> a horse that doesn't
> keep weight on, first call is to the dentist.
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