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Chronic Sore Feet
Easy Keeper – Stays large on little food
Rotation on Radiograph
Can’t be on Pasture
Founder History
On pergolide by still foot sore
Painful on hard or frozen ground
Elevated Insulin on Blood Tests
Trapped on a Dirt Lot
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Neurological Issues (EPM, EDM, Motor Neuron)
Muscle Soreness
Tie-up
Polysaccharide storage problems
Senior horse with poor immunity
Dirt lot or no grass;
Liver Problems
Eye Disorders
Dull, dry, damaged skin and coat
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Rapid respiratory rate
Coughing
Nasal discharge
Stressed
Can’t breathe right so can’t ride
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Chronic Lameness
Flexion of joints less
Constant joint injections
Senior horse “olditis”
Hind end stiff
Joints effected by Lyme disease
Down attitude due to soreness
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Anxious and upset
Loss of focus
Always in heat
Colic-like signs
Stressed
Can't settle down
Difficult to ride
Muscle sore
Irritable
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Tissue bleeds very easily when trying to clean out the feet
Feet have very bad odor
Exudate that is white/yellow like melting cheese
Tentacles of abnormal tissue like an octopus
“Blooms” of proud flesh and abnormal tissue that looks like cauliflower
Mild advancing to profound lameness where they begin to lean against posts,straw bales, keep feet up, hop, toe walk
Blood on concrete floor seen due to canker dripping blood
Cleaning out feet does not cure the problem