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12/14/2024

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11/19/2024

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11/19/2024

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11/15/2024

Get your butt and your horse's butt in gear!

Does your horse struggle with backing? Dragging the hind feet? Or Do you want to work on hind leg lifts to improve balance or just so you can start to clean the hooves? This class will help with all those issues. Prerequisite - you have worked on backing and have a bit in place done WITHOUT pressure

11/15/2024

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11/14/2024

▪️Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction (PPID), also called Equine Cushing's Disease, is a common endocrine disorder affecting older horses.

▪️While hypertrichosis, or excessive hair growth, is a widely recognized clinical sign of PPID, it is not present in all cases.

▪️Studies have shown that hypertrichosis is present in approximately 33-69% of horses with PPID. Therefore, diagnosing or testing for PPID solely based on the presence of hypertrichosis may result in underdiagnosis in horses without this sign, especially in cases of early or subclinical disease.

▪️Other signs can include laminitis, lethargy, muscle loss, pendulous abdomen, increased drinking and urination, abnormal fat deposition, increased sweating, recurrent infections, infertility, behavioural changes.

▪️At this time of year, we perform the Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone (TRH) stimulation test as it is more sensitive for detecting early PPID cases, especially cases that might be missed with a basal ACTH test alone.

🔑 #1: Many horses with PPID may have completely normal coats.

🔑 #2: The TRH stimulation test which is now available at our practice is useful for diagnosing early PPID cases.

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10/03/2024

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10/01/2024

Very thorough article on PPID and EMS

Linda Claxson great work improving his appearance with diet/track etc but EMS ponies can still have high insulin even when lean and looking good. Knowing his basal Insulin when on a safe diet is always helpful and an OST test would show how he responds to diet changes. My lean PPID and EMS pony always had ribs slightly visible but was highly insulin disregulated and would test around 13 to 15uiu/ml but could spike insulin over 200uiu/ml with the reason not always known. Have a read of this from the European College of Equine Internal Medicine

Equine metabolic syndrome (EMS) is a widely recognized collection of risk factors for endocrinopathic laminitis. The most important of these risk factors is insulin dysregulation (ID). Clinicians and horse owners must recognize the presence of these risk ...