Chris Roll - Founder – heaves – Near Death Mini now doing great!

 

John Dowdy:     Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. This is a pretty, I'm just going to say, a miraculous one. I always tell people that the Equinety product is not a miracle supplement, but it sure does some miraculous things and I think this story fits right into that category. We're going to swing up into Pennsylvania. Chris Roll, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Chris Roll:         Thank you, John. It's good to be here.

John Dowdy:     Well, we're happy to have you and I'm excited to talk about this one. I actually came across one of your comments in a post that on one of the ads that we were running on Facebook and you told the story of, you have too many ponies in their twenties and one of them was scheduled to be euthanized and then something quite miraculous happened but let's talk about this one in particular, what you were dealing with prior to finding the Equinety product. What was going on with this one?

Chris Roll:         Okay. This was a mid-twenties miniature horse. She got down where she was stiff-jointed and all she wanted to do was lay down all the time and I thought maybe it was joint problems so I put her on a joint supplement and that didn't help. And the farrier came and he said that she was foundered so the owner decided we were going to have her euthanized before winter because she wasn't moving enough to keep her body heat up. I saw ads on Facebook for Equinety and I read the reviews and I said, "let me try this as one last resort for her, if it doesn't work then we'll have her euthanized." Within seven days, this miniature horse back up and it's been probably two months now or three that she's been on Equinety and she is now bucking and running and feisty as ever.

John Dowdy:     Now, that's pretty darn amazing. And again, I got to put the asterisk on this. This is not a miracle supplement. I'm just going to throw that out there. But, let's go back to some of the stuff that you were dealing with. So, you thought it was a shoulder issue, you were working with a couple of different farriers and they were able to say, "hey, no, this horse is foundered," which this horse had been foundered before?

Chris Roll:         Prior to us buying her, yes. She had been foundered before, but she was good up until the point where she had gotten down-

John Dowdy:     Sure.

Chris Roll:         ...with foot pain.

John Dowdy:     Yeah. And then she was so bad that she just couldn't really get up, you were having to feed her while she was kind of-

Chris Roll:         No, I fed her out of a feed pan on the ground because she wouldn't want to get up, I mean, she would just lay there and eat out of this pan.

John Dowdy:     Mm-hmm (affirmative).

Chris Roll:         And then I'd make her get up so that she can move around because it's not good for their digestion to lay and eat. So I would make her get up, but she would eat, she would get up and eat and then back down right away.

John Dowdy:     Right. Just in a lot, a lot of pain. Yeah.

Chris Roll:         Right.

John Dowdy:     So-

Chris Roll:         Like I said, I tried joint supplements and I tried Bute and nothing seemed to help her. And then like I said, I read the Equinety reviews and I thought, "why not?" So I tried it and I'm telling you, like you said, it's not a miracle cure, but it did miracles for her.

John Dowdy:     Right. And what were your, now you're dealing with two different farriers, so, what were, I mean they obviously saw her in her current condition and then how long was it... while they were on Equinety and until they had seen her again, what were their reactions?