Jessica Moore - Whiteline – Thrush – Collapsed heals – Navicular

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. I am really excited this week to have on Jessica Moore out of Copperas Cove, Texas, and I'm telling you if you are dealing with any kind of hoof issues, this is the podcast to tune into. We're going to be talking about white line, thrush, collapsed heels, navicular, even getting into some arthritic issues. Without further ado, Jessica, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Jessica Moore:              Hi, thank you for having me.

John Dowdy:                 Well, it's great to have you on. So let's get right into this. We're going to be talking about your 17-year-old rescue named Rooster. Tell us how you acquired Rooster and what was going on with him when you got him in.

Jessica Moore:              Well, Rooster was offered up on Facebook as a free horse, and a lady was going through a divorce and she just needed him to go. She'd had him up for sale, couldn't sell him, and I told her that I would take him. I didn't hear from her for a little bit and then she messaged me and said, "If you're still want him, he's yours." I was like, "Let me hook up the trailer," and I head out to go pick him up. When she brought him to the trailer he was limping a little bit, but she was walking across rocks and he didn't have shoes on. And she's like, "He's just tender-footed." Okay. Not a big deal. We get him into the trailer and I take him back to my place. And then we started noticing that the limping was coming a little bit more and he was coming up more lame.

Jessica Moore:              And so I started looking into maybe putting some boots on, that she said he was just tender-footed when it came to rocks. And I started looking at boots and the prices and which ones that he could say in a paddock 24/7 with, and I just decided before I go and spend all this money, let me have an X-ray because I know nothing of this horse. So I loaded him up and I took him down to my vet where we had X-rays done of his feet. And it came back he was diagnosed with moderate navicular disease. And so, she said she didn't know how severe because we didn't do an MRI, we just did X-rays.

Jessica Moore:              And they did a a nerve block in him on the foot that was bothering him the worst. We later discovered that he had severe thrush. He had white line disease as well. He did have some arthritis. He was impaled in one of his shoulders by, I don't know what. But he's got a big gouge. So we put him on pain meds, brought him back. And he showed some improvement with the pain meds and with the nerve block. It still wasn't enough. I was soaking his feet in Oxine every other day, scrubbing his feet. We still weren't seeing a huge improvement from it and we decide to change his feed. We went to an extruded feed and started rationing out his hay. We did start to see some improvements after that.

Jessica Moore:              The Equinety, the ad kept coming up, but I kept passing it because I was skeptical. I want to do the research. I want the numbers in front of me. I want to see results before I go and jump on this miracle stuff that's supposed to help. So I'm a little stubborn, but I kept reading and I came across this one on the Equinety site where it was a horse that was suffering from navicular. And I saw the results from it. And most people tell you that when they get the navicular disease that eventually it's a death sentence for them, and I wasn't going to give up on him. He may be 17 years old, but he's still got a lot of life left in him.

John Dowdy:                 Sure.

Jessica Moore:              Part of me just wanted to try it after reading so many different stories on Equinety's Facebook, just combing through.