Hi Kerry

There are a lot of possibilities here. The first thing I would ask is whether this occurs when he is engaged or does this toe dragging occur only when he is traveling without engagement. If this is the case, is the toe dragging just laziness or is there pain he is willing to forget as his brain focuses on the task at hand?

Toe…

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I have heard from others on the FB group asking the same thing. Then I hear from someone in Kenya who had no trouble finding SBM. It seems to be hit or miss.

Some travel an hour once or twice a month to get theirs. We are lucky as our local feed dealer is about 2 miles from us and delivers it. And they get it from Ohio.

CA is a large…

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There are 2 things here. 1) coughing and 2) clover drool.

The cough can be coming from an unlimited number of things. I see pollen dust on my parked car and this is the time of year where everyone’s allergies are starting up. The 2 to 3 week window is along this line of reasoning. It certainly can be the grass but it can also be weeds, trees,…

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Maybe I should call it Phat and Physics – or Fat and Fysics?? This will be a mix of some interesting ideas that started when I saw an “epidemic” of suspensory injuries over the past decade. I try to answer why they have become so prevalent when suspensory injuries were only found in one branch of the suspensory in racing Thoroughbreds back in the 1980’s.

I just saw a case of non-healing scratches in a 30 year old who also has DSLD of the front limbs (where the fetlock drops to the ground), top line muscle loss, EOTRH (losing the incisor teeth) and Cushing’s disease. He is being fed grain and no soybean meal.

I also saw another 30 year old this week who had equine sleep disorder (“narcolepsy”)…

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