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Oh for heaven's sake, I just asked a question! Lighten up. If I don't ask, I don't learn, and there may well have been a reason, other than expediency, for keeping a starving horse in a stall...

Here's an article from DRF about the tornado, Orr Farm, Celestial Acres Training Center, and racing connections.

http://www.drf.com/news/horsemen-suffer-heavy-losses-oklahoma-tornado

Happy horse, happy you. I don't believe in Karma, yet... every time I've done something really good it has somehow enriched me. I hope this is your experience in this stressful time. You've done a...

No kidding, it is wonderful.

I'm wondering why you want to confine him to a stall? Because he is so thin, I can't imagine he has the energy to be galloping around and losing more weight. It just seems like it would be better...

It's sad there are so few horses which survived. Maybe a few did manage to run and will turn up over the next few days. There was one barn which the exercise rider pointed out in the post-tornado...

This is so true. You can save tens of thousands of dollars by keeping at least one wall and following the original footprint of the house, thus qualifying your project as a remodel rather than...

I don't know, but they were quite ugly.

Thank you all for info on the horse farm. It is nice to have a source such as CoTH to get news such as this and keep us informed about horse news. CNN is doing a good job of reporting on people,...

OMG. It never ends.

CNN had a shot of a stable and two horses were being held on leads. It was in the distance, but both horses were standing with a rear leg held well up off the ground. Very scary and sad.

The...

At least it's not snakes. There was a hilarious call on Car Talk a few years ago from a guy in the Pacific North West whose seldom-used station wagon became infested with hundreds of garter snakes. ...

This. Even though prices are going up, it is still cheaper to buy pre-existing than to build from scratch, unless you are really doing a lot of it yourself. I am facing that with raw land and...

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No kidding:

http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?402878-picture-what-is-this

http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?403681-First-summer-sore

JSO, what state are you in?...

Check out the thread on Summer Sores. I had never heard of summer sores so I googled and saw this:

http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/dvm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=789880

Looks like what your...

I sent some of this info in my PM, but I'm still thinking about it so here are more ideas:

Price. Look at everything in your price range.

Water. Check out what is available, city water, well,...

I sent you a message.

OMG Mike, where do you find this stuff?!! Talk about freaky. Talk about scary... although he does look surprisingly cute on that blanket.

Well, the smart thing is to do what the kill buyers will do. Wait for the agency to fatten it up and then buy it.

I don't think meat vendors want an animal that thin, but I am certainly no...

I started to watch that, thought, "This is cheesy," and almost clicked off, but then it got fun! Thanks.

Yes, I do mean that. I'm always seeing different abbreviations: EPSM, PSSM, EPPM... Although the one I used, EPPM, doesn't make sense... I'll stop using that one!

Equine Polysaccharide Storage...

It can also be from pain in the other foreleg, maybe from an incipient abscess.

My farrier has several oldster clients (the horses, not the owners) who are old and stiff, which doesn't sound like...

Broken pelvis?
EPPM?
Back Injury?
Tying up unrelated to EPPM?
Stringhalt?
Urinary tract or kidney infection/problem?
Ovarian cysts?
Insect or parasite problem either internally, or externally,...