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I'd say that the majority of the horses they see are not doing the extremes that ours do.    I understand where the vets are coming from, that most of the horses they see (at least in our neck of the woods) suffer from a lack of preventative care.  So, the vets love to see someone attempt to take better care of their horses.  But, to me, less is better when it comes to constant shoving of something into their systems and then asking them to perform like we do.  Just a thought, but I wonder if all the ulcers could be caused by the daily wormer.  Back years ago we didn't *seem* to have the ulcer problems.  Now, it seems tons of horses are affected by them.  I have often wondered, have I been lucky or what to have had several horses in this sport since 1979, and shoved all those elytes down them for years and not had ulcers.  We tend to blame the elytes, when maybe it was something else like daily wormers that are used so much more now a days.  JMHO.  And I am sure that someone out here in RC land can tell me how wrong I am for thinking this. 

 

 

Jody

Lynne Glazer <lynne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jody, how many of those vets treat extreme performance horses like
ours and if so what's the proportion of their practice?

a.e. happened to a friend, Karen Steenhof and her great horse Ambers
Thorn. The theory of a little bit of poison every day bugs me
conceptually, too.

Lynne
recent pretty pix, and there is an Arab in there, Caleyndar:



On Nov 8, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Jody Rogers-Buttram wrote:

> I agree with Angie. I know people that use it...I have good
> friends that are vets that swear by it. But, I am not going to go
> there. I may be jinxing myself, but like Angie (knock on wood) I
> haven't had that problem either and I have never used it.
>
> Jody ( who will go home now, find 6 coliced horses and have to eat
> her words )
>
> rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > It is odd that more people don't use it? Two words:
> > anterior enteritis> > Implicated in *endurance horse* colics. Enough
> cases that I'll
> > never > use it for a competing horse.
> > > YMMV, of course.
> > > Lynne
>
> Amen! Someone told me how wonderful it was because the company had
> paid
> for TWO colic surgeries for her. Well...I've had NO colic surgeries
> not
> using it. I think I like that better. I've been amazed how many of the
> riders who have the *weird* sort of unexplainable, "everything else on
> the horse was fine" type colics admitted they used daily wormer when I
> asked. You couldn't give it to me.
>
> Angie

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