Recent content by sarahshet

my friend has got a horse with similar problems, vets did various tests and put it down to allergy to dust in feed bags! told her to feed him just sugar beet and bran and keep it all seperate from other feeds etc, done all that and it's still itching and scratching itself terrible, think she's...

We have a horse that has been itching/scratching itself for several months, after numerous blood tests the vets have said he is allergic to any hard feed that has any dust in it, so he can only be fed soaked suger beet and bran and no other hard feed, we also have to keep all his feed buckets...

I have a miniature shetland that has the problem and it's a nightmare, the vet split the ligament 3 weeks ago which was supposed to sort the problem, but it is still just as bad, they can actually cut the ligament but that can be tricky and again may not work. We also had a similar problem with...

I have a miniture shetland age3 who has a very bad locking stifle, he has just had the operation to split the ligament to help this, however after 3 days it is still locking and I am rather concerned. has anyone else had this done and how successful has it been?