As someone who routinely calls BS on the trainwrecks you start, here’s the same advice you’ve been offered 899999999 times.
Present your opinion as opinion, not as irrefutable fact.
Clarify the depth and breadth of your experience. The way you’ve gone on tirades about Pergolide veils, for example, one might think you’re a vet with masses of experience with it. Nope, you have one horse, one lengthy episode of care.
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Hello all, I really didn’t want to have an argument on here. I was just looking for information OR OTHER PEOPLE’S EXPERIENCES! I read everything, and only take the advice I want to take. So, please don’t do this on my thread.
Thank you again everyone who has contributed your advice.
Hi Callaway,
Broodies can take quite a beating in the hind end and it’s not uncommon for them to need some extra support when they get older. Some hanoverian lines, having a predisposition for straight hocks to begin with, take more of beating than others.
She may need a different trim in back and perhaps some support with shoes and pads. A little difference in the trim could mean a lot for her.
I had a broodmare who had injury on her left hind that stressed her right hind enough that she became essentially post legged in that leg. But with the right trim, the post legged-ness would reduce so much she nearly looked normal. When she had a bad trim, her fetlocks would be nearly parallel with the ground and her leg would as straight as post.
When she was put down, they practiced a new technique on her that harvests part of the nuchal ligament for biopsy for DSLD (can be done on a live horse, although she wasn’t at the time). Because she had issues and they were doing DSLD research I asked then to do a post-mortem for DSLD and she did NOT have it.
I have zero DSLD experience.
I do have experience with some poster’s whose confidence grossly exceeds their competence. If I observe a thread where one’s advice might come across as THE way, I speak up.
Well, if you read Callaway’s post, you’ll see she was also asking for other people’s experience with DSLD.
Everyone knows this is the internet. You sort and choose what fits you and your horses needs and hopefully confirm with your Vet.
Well, apparently my experience with DSLD is a hell of a lot more than katarine’s since I have a horse who is going to be put down this weekend due to the disease. [edit]
A friend’s older mare was diagnosed with DSLD. I know it was a TB/WB cross, not sure if it was Hano or not. Friend had bred the mare a few times and thought her pasterns were getting low due to other factors that affect broodmares. But they kept getting worse. Unfortunately, an u/s showed that it was DSLD. She ended up donating the horse to a veterinary school, for research into new treatments and the mare was euthanized shortly afterward.
We’ve removed a lot of off topic and/or personal commentary from the thread to get it refocused on the main topic.
People on both “sides” of the disagreement we removed were out of line in their comments.
Do not let pre-existing issues with other posters ruin threads for other posters. Yes, it’s understandable to want to correct information perceived to be false, but folks can do so without snark, without creating drama by twisting posts and without personal commentary. Because some folks on both sides have failed to do that, we’ve cleared out the whole tangent.
Please refocus on the OP’s query and sharing information to help each other.
Thanks,
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