There are very few better noises to my ears than the sweet low nicker of a mare to her foal.. Number 8 made her appearance at 2 p.m. today. Congrats Chuck and Lacey Deputy. Old Martha did it again!
Watch closely....look at the lower lip. This was a very strange case yesterday, a horse with "the slobbers" from all the clover. This horse also had hay with red clover. He had small muscle tremors all over his body like what I show here with this video. Blood work showed an alarmingly low blood calcium level. Horse saliva has a high calcium content. My thought is that this horse has slobbered so much that he depleted his calcium level. The tremors stopped immediately with slow I.V. calcium administration, and he definitively better. Plan was to change pasture and hay and to add Essential K to his diet for vitamins and minerals.
Nicole Paris! You are the winner. Thanks to everyone who participated. 1355 lbs is Sixy's weight. There were many who were very close with their guesses!
Check out our kick off for February, pet dentistry Month! Watch the video to see how to participate to win a free power float at Southern Indiana Equine.
Ear mites we found today in a surgery patient. We are recommending that the cats be treated with Advantage Multi which will treat the mites as well as prevent intestinal parasites.
An interesting but sad case today. A 30 year old mare was presented for issues with swallowing and weight loss. She had been seen two weeks prior and bloodwork and fecal check were negative. Teeth had been recently floated. The chewing issues persisted and owner brought her in. We passed the endoscope and found a tumor on the under side of the epiglottis. The tumor made the epiglottis 6 times its normal thickness and this mass made it difficult for her to swallow and I suspect start to have some issues with normal air flow. Cells swabbed from.the tumor showed signs of malignancy. The video is a bit hard to see as I tried to film with my phone through the scope but you can still see the tumor in front of the airway. Definitely not something that we routinely see.