On The Right Lead

05/11/2024

Birthing and trauma fractures in ribs.

On my last post about rib fractures there were a few questions about the common fractures from birth trauma and how they differ to trauma fractures. Here are three ribs, left is a normal rib, in the middle is a birth trauma fracture. A birth trauma rib fracture is an extreme bending of the sternal ribs as the foal is being squished through the mares pelvis. The only way to tell is the bone is extremely porous in the area and the rib is thickened in that location. They seem to heal very well as the body is doing allot of developing at this stage. Right is a trauma fracture, a kick, a fall on something the list of ways horses injure themselves domestically is endless. The birthing trauma fractures are always in the sternal ribs from what I’ve seen and so not a normal spot for trauma due to the shoulders bulk.

I’d love to see a study done on birth trauma and pelvic collapse in mares as the pelvis is loosing diameter and would surely make birthing harder.

Below is a patreon video on the topic

https://www.patreon.com/posts/rib-fractures-100613480?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

24/10/2024

Stomach ulcers!

Video up on my patreon talking about the differences I see in stomachs and the amount of acid present if they don’t have adlib quality forage. I also note that I see ulcers in a state of healing even tho they are not on medication or supplements but they are turned out on ample forage.

The stomach below is from a 3 year old TB, it was full of soybean meal and he died from a massive cardiac event. The pericardial sac was full of blood.

Supporting my patreon page is how I fund the work I do, thank you to everyone who supports the work.

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20/10/2024

19/10/2024

Equis Australia is undergoing a name change.
Moving forward we will be
On The Right Lead! 🐎

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11/10/2024

Will be in the Caboolture area Monday. Some early afternoon spots available 🐎

28/09/2024

What we see VS what we might not see 🥕

There is always more to a behavior or training problem than what we see on the surface 🐴

27/09/2024

The horse’s digestive tract is designed to handle lots of fiber and thrives best if it has a variety of fiber types to feed the different microbes in the gut.

27/09/2024

Some morning spaces Wamuran on Monday 30th 🐎

31/07/2024

Morning spots available in Samford/ Dayboro Tuesday 6th .

12/02/2024

Let's Talk About Salt!

This article was written by Karly from Stable-Ised Equine and we would like to share it with our customers as it is a good source of information.

📖 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙩
🐴 I love reading about misconceptions when it comes to feeding horses, but today I’d like to debunk some common myths about good old sodium chloride.

🧂 Myth #1: Salt only needs to be fed when the weather is hot.
🐴 Truth #1: Salt needs to be fed 365 days a year because it is vital for many bodily
processes and is excreted in sweat, saliva, mucous and urine. Even in the midst of winter, horses need salt.

🧂 Myth #2: Horses instinctively know to drink water regularly, especially when they are hot and sweaty.
🐴 Truth #2: A horse’s thirst reflex is triggered by sodium, which is a component of salt. Horses’ sodium requirements need to be met in order to seek water.

🧂 Myth #3: A horse can meet their sodium and chloride requirements with a salt block alone.
🐴 Truth #3: Unlike cattle, horses do not have an abrasive tongue and are not designed to lick harsh surfaces to extract nutrients. While it is technically possible for a horse to consume their daily salt requirement from a salt block, it is much less work and more physiologically-appropriate for them to consume loose salt that is either provided in a meal or left out free-choice.

🧂 Myth #4: Horses know what nutrients they need and can self-medicate with supplements such as vitamins and minerals.
🐴 Truth #4: Salt is the only nutrient horses have been studied and proven to actively seek out when it is required. They will not seek out other nutrients “because they know they need it.” Look at how much salt and molasses (palatable additives) are added to free-choice supplements.

🧂 Myth #5: Himalayan rock salt is better for horses than plain salt.
🐴 Truth #5: Himalayan rock salt contains naturally occurring components other than sodium and chloride. Some may view this as a positive; however, it is usually a more expensive means of supplementing salt, and often contains traces of iron which almost never needs to be supplemented given horses are generally oversupplied iron by their forage intake alone.

🐎 Your horse’s diet should be providing a minimum of 10g of salt per 100kg of body weight each day; typically more after exercise, intense weather, or illness. Ensuring your horse always has access to clean, cool, and fresh drinking water will ensure they remain well-hydrated and if by chance they intake more salt than necessary, the water they drink allows them to excrete excess very effectively.

27/01/2024

22/10/2023

Will be in the Samford are this Wednesday.🐎🐎🐎🐎

08/10/2023

Interesting. (Look at all the pasture he rides through 🥲)

Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know that I have recently released a brand new online education platform called eFarriery Education. If you follow the lin...

02/10/2023

13/09/2023

We all knew this didn't we. 🙂

Nouvel article : Les chevaux sensibles à notre tristesse ! (1/2)

Avec ma doctorante Plotine Jardat, nous continuons à investiguer la sensibilité des chevaux à nos propres émotions. Après avoir travaillé sur la joie, la colère et la peur, nous étudions la sensibilité des chevaux à nos états de tristesse😓.
Dans ce nouvel article paru dans la r***e « Animal Cognition », nous montrons que les chevaux sont capables d’associer mentalement les expressions faciales de tristesse avec des intonations de voix triste. Cela montre qu’ils ont une reconnaissance multimodale de cette émotion (on l’avait déjà montré pour la joie et la colère).
Pour cela, nous avons testé les chevaux dans un protocole de reconnaissance multimodale. Les chevaux étaient installés dans une salle équipée de vidéo-projecteurs. On projetait devant eux deux photos en même temps : l’un d’un visage triste et un autre d’un visage joyeux, pendant qu’on émettait des voix pré-enregistrées soit tristes soit joyeuses. On répétait plusieurs fois de suite ce test pour chaque cheval, avec des visages et des voix de personnes différentes.
Les chevaux étaient filmés par plusieurs caméras afin d’analyser leurs comportements. Conformément à notre hypothèse, les chevaux n’ont pas regardé au hasard l’un ou l’autre des visages, en fonction de la voix émise. Cela montre qu’ils sont capables d’associer un visage avec la voix qui correspond à la même émotion.
>> On peut conclure qu’ils savent quelle expression faciale, mais aussi quelle voix l’humain fait lorsqu’il est triste ou joyeux. Pas mal, non ? Les humains savent-ils toujours en faire autant avec leurs animaux ?
Dans le prochain post, je vous donnerai la suite des résultats, car ce n’est pas tout ;)

lien de l'article ici :
https://rdcu.be/dlsij

[1] Jardat, P., Liehrmann, O., Reigner, F., Parias, C., Calandreau, L. & Lansade, L. 2023 Horses discriminate between human facial and vocal expressions of sadness and joy. Anim Cogn 26, 1733-1742. (doi:10.1007/s10071-023-01817-7).

10/09/2023