I have read that canadian hores have been regularly fed frozen fish in hard winters n costal areas. I have seen a chicken farm where the dead birds were...
I have a friend whose Percheron cross will eat any kind of meat--hamburgers, meat sandwiches, bacon, sausage, etc. My friend's Morgan is a terrible beggar and...
Christie (and Roxanne) Re Christie's comment: "It would be difficult to separate the environmental & genetic components in many studies on horses without...
Yup - I know of several folks here who haul aspen branches in for their horses to chew on. Florine even developed a taste for the spruce trees in her paddock,...
Has anyone tried the new Farnam Horse Products "Quitt"? I just read an ad for it in John Lyon's Perfect Horse magazine. It's added to the feed and is ...
I think tree-eating is a trait that has been developed in Canadians over the last 300 years. In wild horses, at least 20 percent of the diet is woody browse...
I have been following your conversations regarding heaves. My 12 year old Canadian was diagnosed with mild COPD in the late fall. (Vet thought allergy to mold...
I had an Arab with terrible heaves and I did all that you were doing - with limited success. Then I put him on Breathe from Herbs for Horses and he was ...
Linda White
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We bought 3 or 4 different herbal products for Noemie, only to find out that there had been no research done on giving it to pregnant mares. My vet, suggested...
Pat, My appy mare has heaves, sometimes worse than others. A couple of years ago it was particularly bad and I had her scoped, etc. just to make sure. Our Vet...
All of the posts on Heavey horses has brought me out of my lurker status. Here is something else to consider for the horses that just do not respond to...
Has anyone else ever noticed when the vet is gelding someone in the barn, all the other boys are like statues, not a peep or a move, like they are invisible,...
FWIW, this syringe milking procedure sounds a lot easier than what we personally found it to be. We tried this cut off syringe trick with our mares and didn't...
This wouldn't be an issue if we were still milking cows by hand. Ah technology forces us to do some crazy things. My wife doesn't "complain" about finding a...
Our Vet is more a cow vet than a horse vet so Our dogs really loved him the first time he gelded a horse on our front lawn. He just threw one of them on the...
My neighbours beautiful Canadian mare started jumping the fence and coming over to my barn.. Yesterday she jumped her 3 foot electric barnyard fence (snow...
Hi, I tend to agree with Roxane on this; she might look only for company and since someone teach her how to jump....She is practicing (hahahaha) Ok more...
This afternoon was in the 40's, so most of the snow is melted except where it drifted, and the snow banks. I decided it was nice enough to go for a drive....
About the freezing of colostrum... How long can it be kept i.e. what is the 'shelf life' of frozen mare's milk? I've not done it yet and I'm guessing it would...
Katherine, We were advised by our vet that frozen colostrum is good for a year. Although she unofficially told us that she has used and tested 2 yr old ...
I rarely post, but every now and then something stirs my interest more than other posts. We had a mare foal for the first time this past spring. Her foal ...
Maureen Thanks for the alternative treatment ideas... I had been mulling them over....I will give them a try. Make a difference today :-)) ... London, ON...
Cathy, Thanks for posting about your mare with udder edema as I think that it is important for everyone to know that this can happen, to know to look out for ...
For those of you interested, there will be a side saddle clinic on May 14-15, 2005, in New Maryland (near Fredericton), NB. My business partner, Shelly...
Maureen, could I forward your post to a couple of friends of mine? Cec ... From: "Deborah Shore-Reid" <d.reid@...> To: <CanadianHorse@yahoogroups.com> ...
My wife's baby, a Clydesdale was just diagnosed with Inguinal hernia. Vets won't normally do the operation on such a large animal so he's going on a road trip...
