Recent content by tucker01

Hi, don't know whether you read my reply in the Veterinary page but it goes along these lines. Navicular is not the dirty word that it once was - so please don't panic. If you're able get a referral to the Animal Health Trust at Newmarket, do it. They see this all the time and with careful...

Hi, bute stays in the system for three days. One of my horses developed Navicular syndrome when he was 17yrs. He had never had a lame day in his life but this seemed to trigger something through compensating when he sprained a foreleg tendon. The AHT at Newmarket diagnosed this for us and...

Brightsyde, good to know you've had your vet and farrier on a one to one. Hopefully you can now move forward. Once again, Good Luck with your horse. :-)

Hi, lizzie here again, sorry, re EP's and trimming. Think trimming needs to be specified - EP's don't trim as in clip the hoof but obv they do file. Thought I'd better clear that up. thanks. Lizzie x

Hi, In defence of the EP's. I turned to using an EP for one of my retired horses who suddenly refused to have his feet touched by a farrier. Because the horse couldn't cope with having a farrier his feet became long and low and we avoided stressing him out as much as possible - which of...