Recent content by puddicat

Well, the average body weight of 15hh horses is about 500 kg (range 416 - 581). 20% of that would be 100 kg and 11 stone is 70 kg so going by the information floating around this thread you should be OK. Even if we assumed it the animal was lightweight for its size at about 400 kg, 20% of...

Thank you. I'm curious about the statement "Bone structure was evaluated using the front leg cannon bones as representative of general structure". I wish they'd been more specific, in some respects it isn't true and in others it obviously is. It would be a nice project for an equine science...

Quote: "How do you calculate or find out how much weight he can carry from the measurement of the bone ??" This is a really interesting question and the answer has to be "you can't reliably". The only sense in which a leg circumference measurement will indicate weight carrying capacity is that...

The best weight tape is Dodson and Horrell's (with a horse side and a pony side), all other weight tapes and girth formulas are subject to [unquantified] errors which at a conservative guess would be about 10% and playing-it-safe guess of 15%. There are two reasons why the Dodson and Horrell...

I shall leave your wild and over-active imagination to answer your own questions.

I couldn't tell you how many times we have rung the vet for advice (and yes, it is a renowned specialist equine practice), and been told to give bute. This assumes that we have a supply of the stuff, which is surely the responsible thing to do? It is no different from keeping Ibuprofen in a home...

Tia you are wrong about so many things I couldn't let you be wrong about the inevitability of me replying to your generous comments Someone who goes out of their way to read 1,000 posts is, to me anyway, showing stalker tendencies. Actually it's showing researcher tendencies. What you are...

Blimey, I didn't want to distract the thread any further by posting a reply to HH's post but since it's still going and I agree with some of HH's sentiments: 1. Yes I would agree my tone was inappropriately hasrsh because I misread what AmyMay had said. Since I strongly believe in reading...

Actually Puddicat, have never told her to use bute - and have only imparted information on how we deal with abcesses. Yes I agree. The general concerns I expressed are based your past 1000 posts. I acknowledge the terms used in welfare investigatons are a bit immotive, I guess it is the same...

AmyMay was OFFERING advice, not FORCING me to take it!!! And she didnt tell me to give her bute - she actually said not to! Yes I agree I read that post of AmyMay's incorrectly. The fact remains that you should not give prescription medicines without the direction of a vet and your original...

The answer to your question is CALL YOUR VET. It is highly irresponsible of you to use bute without direction of the vet and it also totally irresponsible and wrong of AmyMay to advise you to. It is clear from the thread that you don't know know what the condition is and neither does anybody...

Have you asked your vet ?

which research ? Where was it published and by whom ?

Nerve blocking is a diagnostic procedure in which the nerves that communicate pain to the CNS are temporarily disabled by injecting a local anaesthetic around the nerves. Different areas of the leg are supplied by different nerve branches so if the nerve branch reporting pain from the affected...

Unfortunately most of my Pony Club stories are unrepeatable on a forum but here is a story-derived bit of advice. If you're doing a fancy dress drill ride competition and you decide to dress as a Christmas tree, it is useful to know that the horses that cross you at X during the canter across...