I wish I could have ridden him and gone through the drive through to pick it up, but it’s too far away!
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So far we are off to a good start. He ate his breakfast just fine without the molasses spray yesterday. Bright eyed, bushy tailed, happy to eat. Temp is completely normal, poop is solid.
I’m planning to give him a couple more days off/super light groundwork days to not aggravate anything as the initial bacteria die off and then we will be back to our regularly scheduled programming.
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Reporting in after a month of mino treatment!
He has been about as good as I’ve known him to be. I still have him on a full Equioxx/day in addition to the mino. I’m thinking once we get into month 3 of treatment, Ill dial him back to a pill every other day and see how that holds. We haven’t had a full blown knee buckle since I’ve started the treatment.
One major note is that his FWS is non-existent. I’ve been hesitant to say it out loud, but we’ve gotten through enough miserable hot/humid days where he has been out during the day and not so much as a drop.
I have continued to do a lot with the balance mat and proprioceptive work with poles/hill/etc and that very much seems to help. I’m guessing that we may have some neuropathy in play between the Lyme and the EPM, but it seems manageable.
I shared in the animal communication thread that we talked to Nancy yesterday, and she definitely picked up on his issues. Before I told her anything about him/his diagnosis, she said that he is putting more weight on his back legs, that his front feet feel “heavy”. She told me nothing felt out, but his poll is “weird”. She also said that he was the first horse with a chronic Lyme diagnosis that was willing to talk to her and that he is a very happy horse (she reiterated this a couple times). So take that for what it’s worth!
A couple indicator things I have been watching are that leg fussiness when I pick up his front feet. That seems to be slightly better, but still sometimes he wants to pull the hooves if I just hold them like Im going to pick them, and he still shows intermittent discomfort walking on the gravel to his turnout. SO I’m going to try my hands with glue ons. I met up with my friend that taught me to trim, ordered a set of the N&U Performer shoes from a recommendation in a separate thread. They look a little less complicated with the adhesive tabs vs the big glue gun.
If they seem to work for him, I am going to have to get my nipper badge next because I don’t want to rasp 6 weeks of growth or however long the shoes stay on for 
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Those shoes sound pretty amazing. But are they single use only?
–signed, the owner of a chronic shoe puller
Yeah. Single use in terms of wear but they can be re-installed if they pull one off.
Friend has found that they don’t last longer than 5-6 weeks. Ours are out on dry lots 24/7 when they’re not being worked in the beautiful GGT footing. They get Scoot Boots for trail since we have to ride on slick pavement part of the way.
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Thanks for chiming in! Has your friend tried the grips/spikes? They are currently sold out on the website but if these work, I’d be looking at those for the winter for sure.
I need to do some cost/benefit analysis with all this at some point. I very well may end up getting him in some of the Easy Care poly nail ons and just have a farrier do it. If I have to full on replace the shoes every 6 weeks, something like those are about half the cost of the N&U ones so even paying the farrier to do it may be close to a wash.
No spines or grips. No snow or ice here, we avoid showing on the grass, and we had the Scoot Boots for the barefoot horses.
Everyone, even the few with metal shoes, now goes out on trail in Scoot Boots for traction. Good for pavement and the occasional rock. When my horse was shod in Eponas they had enough traction that he didn’t need Scoot Boots.
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