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Matt-Support started the discussion Rounds With Doc T – "No-Grain Challenge Review" – 2022 December 26th in the forum Rounds With Doc T Meetings and Events 3 years ago
Rounds With Doc T – "No-Grain Challenge Review" - 2022 December 26th
The No-Grain Challenge Review
The basic purpose of the “no-grain challenge” is to offer horse owners a way to feed horses according to their evolutionary development. The reason is to prevent the plethora of ailments horses now have that, in my experience, were not around 50 years ago. These include: dropped fetlocks, kissing spine, white… Read more
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Doc-t posted an update 3 years ago
Thank you to all that listen! This is the Spotify statistics for 2022. I’ll be back podcasting in 2023. You can find me on ALL the podcast platforms. An early “Happy New Year!” to everyone.
wrappedforpodcasters.byspotify.com
The standout moments of the year. Shout out to all the fans on Spotify.
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Matt-Support started the discussion Rounds With Doc T – Ask Doc T Anything – 2022 December 12th in the forum Rounds With Doc T Meetings and Events 3 years ago
Rounds With Doc T - Ask Doc T Anything - 2022 December 12th
This AMA (Ask Me Anything) covered two questions but dove into a lot of smaller issues. Here is the catalog.
2 minutes, 20 seconds: Establishing a pasture from a natural bog. We touch on drainage, removing weeds, establishing good forage, and poisonous plants (black walnut, red maple, cherry, Japanese yew). Getting a good agriculture… Read more
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Doc-t posted a new post. 3 years ago
Cushing's Disease In Horses - Rounds With Doc T ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )This month’s rounds will discuss Cushing’s Disease in horses, which will clear up many misunderstandings surrounding what seems to be affecting many horses today.
No, it is not insulin resistance. No, it is…
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user1657335136 replied to the discussion PSSM1 in the forum No Grain Challenge 3 years ago
Thank you for this response. It gives me much to think about.
Yes, PSSM is still largely a mystery. Some horses seems to be heavily symptomatic, and others not at all.
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Doc-t replied to the discussion PSSM1 in the forum No Grain Challenge 3 years ago
PSSM is still a mystery in horses because, in type 1, there is a confirmed genetic mutation that causes an abnormal construction of glycogen. However, there are other causes of PSSM with similar signs (muscle cramping) caused by, as yet, other reasons other than the genetic mutation of PSSM 1. For now, these other causes are listed as Type… Read more
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Matt-Support started the discussion Rounds With Doc T – "Cushing’s Disease In Horses" – 2022 November 28th in the forum Rounds With Doc T Meetings and Events 3 years ago
Rounds With Doc T – "Cushing’s Disease In Horses" - 2022 November 28th
Cushing’s Disease In Horses – The Horse’s Advocate Rounds – November 28, 2022
This month’s rounds will discuss Cushing’s Disease in horses, which will clear up many misunderstandings surrounding what seems to be affecting many horses today.
No, it is not insulin resistance. No, it is not Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS). But, yes, these… Read more
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user1657335136 started the discussion PSSM1 in the forum No Grain Challenge 3 years ago
I apologize that my schedule hasn’t allowed me to ask this question on a live/AMA evening, so I will ask it here.
How would your diet recommendations change for a horse with PSSM1? Couldn’t find much except a suggestion in a previous thread that there may be an issue feeding SBM to horses with this condition.
Thanks for your time Doc T
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Doc-t posted a new post. 3 years ago
AAEP 2022 Insulin Dysregulation - Podcast #073 ( Moved to community.thehorsesadvocate.com )“Insulin Dysregulation n Horses” – In this episode, I review a recommended paper by the prime speaker of this conference called “Review of Considerations When Feeding the Equid with Insulin Dysregulation” by…
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Bill posted an update 3 years ago
In zoom call this week Doc T mentioned lignin sulfonate which he described as saw dust being added to some horse feeds. Some may be an understatement. The Mad Barn web site lists 250 horse feeds with lignin sulfonate. https://madbarn.com/ingredient/lignin-sulfo
I also ran across an article Wood is Good!
The benefits of adding wood to your horse’s…
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LOL – remember that horses cannot digest lignin, the woody part of the plant. However, ruminants can digest lignin, which is why I consider them the best-in-class digestive system.
I further think that horses chew wood because they are 1) not satiated and 2) are seeking a nutrient not being provided in their day-to-day feed. Of course,… Read more
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Kay posted an update 3 years ago
Sorry I could not participate in the forum this evening, question and feedback requested on letting a laminitic IR horse graze w/o a muzzle when grass is not growing in the upstate of SC Nov thru Jan/Feb, vet recommends muzzle at all times as a precaution, horse is increasingly anxious, ulcers a prior diagnosis, is grazing w/o a muzzle…
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BTW, diet is working so well, off all supplements, soaked hay only, soybean meal added to soaked Timothy grass pellets, various soaked hays, not one type, he is looking amazing, coat, weight, etc. And too full of exuberance as an Arab would be!
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It is difficult to advise for a particular horse from my chair – and discourteous to your vet and farrier who have boots on the ground. But, this said, they must see improvement in your horse as you see it.
So the best response here is to work with your team to assess him over time. A written journal helps. It takes a year to fully replace… Read more
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DinahC replied to the discussion Rounds With Doc T – Ask Doc T Anything – 2022 November 14th in the forum Rounds With Doc T Meetings and Events 3 years ago
Reply to Rounds With Doc T - Ask Doc T Anything - 2022 November 14th
Can you do a follow up on Santana, your rescue from September 2021. You showed a before and after photo from Sep 21 to Mar 22. Would be great to see the progress after a full year.
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DinahC replied to the discussion Rounds With Doc T – Ask Doc T Anything – 2022 November 14th in the forum Rounds With Doc T Meetings and Events 3 years ago
Reply to Rounds With Doc T - Ask Doc T Anything - 2022 November 14th
Is there an acceptable pH range for the urine to be?
How can we test the pH? …. clearly once we’ve caught some in a bucket!
If our horses urine is not within this normal range, ie too acid or too alkali, can you suggest/recommend something we could do to help reset it?
I ask this as i have only just listened to your March AMA replay and… Read more
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Matt-Support started the discussion Rounds With Doc T – Ask Doc T Anything – 2022 November 14th in the forum Rounds With Doc T Meetings and Events 3 years ago
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Bill posted an update 3 years ago
I have been using 50% of crude protein in hay to calculate the bioavailability of protein the horse needs. I continually see much smaller protein requirements being referenced. Today I think I know where they come from, National Academies Science Engineering Medicine. (webassets.nationalacademies.org/nrh/
I found them on a look up of…
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Bill – thanks for this. Determining how much protein to feed takes some math. Before I do that, I want to remind everyone that proteins are made of 20 amino acids. Of these, ten need to be eaten, while the other ten the horse actually can make. Therefore these ten are called “essential.” Hay does not provide all of the ten essential amino… Read more
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