A test for one horse doesn’t mean your horse will test the same especially one not in your area.
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My vet recommended the same numbers that @Simkie is using and I did see a huge difference, but we only tested because it was obvious something was wrong. My vet suggested 2000 IU as a baseline before the bloodwork came back, and then when my horse tested on the low end of normal we doubled that for a loading dose. This is on top of the ~1300 IU in my horse’s daily grain. It took about 6 weeks at the 4000 IU dose for the symptoms to go away. The plan is to drop to 2000 over the summer and go back up for the winter once the grass starts to die this fall.
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Thanks! Vet is coming next week so I can ask about it then.
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Does anyone know if low vitamin e would be a contributing factor in the IMMK?
I’ll ask the vet obviously but I’m curious now.
So many things have improved for this horse after religiously sticking to the omneity, I am starting to think he just spent a lot of years missing essential nutrients (before I got him).
Vitamin e does play a role in immune function, so maybe?
So as an example, he has this sarcoid thing on his ankle. Doesn’t get bigger but never seems to heal. He’s always bumping it and it bleeds etc.
Well what do you know, it’s almost gone. Been there since the day I got him 5 years ago.
I really feel like he’s immune suppressed.
And it could be the cooler weather but we had a great lesson today. Steady and forward and lasted 45 full minutes before I called it a day. He could have kept going but I didn’t want to push it.
I don’t know… maybe the oats are working! Haha.
