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Terri Dinubilo Murray - Blown Tendon, Abscess, Hoof

Growth, Shiny Coat, Life is back - Health Happy Horse

John Dowdy:     Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We are going to swing way out West. That's out West for me since I'm in Florida. We're going to go out to Oahu, Hawaii, and we've got Terry Murray on the Equinety podcast this week. Terry, welcome to the call.

Terri Murray:    Thank you. I'm glad to be here. I'm very eager to share my testimony about this wonderful product.

John Dowdy:     Well, that's great. We're glad to have you. And let's start off talking about your horse. Just from our pre-call, you had brought this horse in from the mainland, and for those of you on the mainland, that's us on the big, big island of the United States. You're out there on the island by itself. So you brought this horse in from where in the States?

Terri Murray:    This horse came from the Cascade Range of Washington.

John Dowdy:     Okay, so this was about in 2006-ish timeframe?

Terri Murray:    Yes.

John Dowdy:     Okay.

Terri Murray:    She actually came to us in the January of 2006, yes.

John Dowdy:     Got you. So before you brought it over, she was vet checked, and the vet that checked her out said she had a bit of stifle issues. But when you got her there on the island, what did your local vet... what was his take on what was going on?

Terri Murray:    With the stifle issue that she had, it wasn't very prevalent, and he basically said with conditioning and exercise that that would help reduce any type of stifle inadequacies where she's unable to move. It would help that.

John Dowdy:     So you kind of just started off doing some conditioning and trying to get her in shape and things like that?

Terri Murray:    Yeah. So what we did was a friend of ours had a cattle ranch, and so we went and boarded her there for a couple of months and just had fun with her moving cows. She was stalled. She had some pasture time. We'd work with her on a daily basis, slowly bringing her up to a good healthy condition.

John Dowdy:     Sure. And then, you got the itch like most horse people do. And so you started doing some training; so, what were you training her to do at this point?

Terri Murray:    Okay, so I met somebody here that was alongside the vet. She was an assistant and she kept encouraging me to show Winnie. She had a lot of eye appeal and was a looker. And so shortly after, maybe about, I want to say, Oh, about two years later, I met a gal that was willing to coach me and teach me how to ride and get ready for the Western Pleasure show that was short- lived here in Hawaii. But we showed in both the Equine Class and the Western Pleasure, and at times, the trail course.

John Dowdy:     And being a novice rider getting into that, I hear you did very well one year.

Terri Murray:    One year we did take the novice championship, and so, that was really exciting. It was exciting to meet other people in the Western Pleasure classes, and just meeting other horse owners, and just sharing the camaraderie and the passion that we have for horses.

John Dowdy:     Sure.

Terri Murray:    It was a new experience for me.

John Dowdy:     Great.

Terri Murray:    So we went from just trail riding to the show ring, and it was a great experience.

John Dowdy:     Yes. And in addition to that, you also participated in some of these parades out there, and for those who have not been to Hawaii and in these parades, tell us a little bit about what those were like.

Terri Murray:    Okay, so the parades, when you have an equestrian division, which has been going strong here in Hawaii,

Teri Allen - 5 Horses - Stringhalt - Stifle - Mystery

Lameness - Navicular - HOT Mare - Kissing Spine

 

John Dowdy:     Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. I am really excited as I am every week to have on our next guest, Teri Allen out of Elizabeth, Colorado. Teri, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Teri Allen:         Thank you. Thanks for having us and letting us talk about the product and having us here this morning.

John Dowdy:     Well, we're glad to have you. And I know you've got a plate full, you've got a farm with around 55 horses. You've got a boarding facility, you've got your Terolyn Horse Rescue. And let's just jump right into this. Tell us a little bit about your rescue project because we've got four different horses we're going to talk about.

And I know that you've got a lot of other stories, but we kind of zeroed in on these because we're going to be talking about one that you initially purchased the product for which had some stringhalt, stifle issues. Then three rescue horses that were kind of pre-navicular and another one which I'm excited to talk about on this call.

Because I don't believe we've had any other person on the podcast talk about one with kissing spine, so that'll be very interesting and helpful for a lot of folks. But let's back it up a little bit and tell us about your Terolyn Horse Rescue and how that project all got started and how that's going.

Teri Allen:         Oh. So I have been a horse trainer for many years. I've been at my current location for almost 20 years and along the way with training, I've occasionally taken a horse or two that were rescues that I would do some training on and then I would re-home.

This became a real big project to me and very dear to me when I was asked to help with Morgan Safenet on going to an auction to save a Morgan horse, which is what I used to train, up in Fort Collins at one of the livestock auctions.

And when I went there, seeing these horses in such horrible conditions, so stressed out, these horses were run behind the livestock, they weren't ridden through these sales. They were sold by the pound, they were just run over the scales, run into a very tiny arena ... very stressed out animals.

And that's where I knew I had to step in and do more. We did end up saving the Morgan, but I'd say saving that horse is what started me on this path with the rescue. So that's been almost four and a half years ago and I became an official 501(c)3 four years ago.

So we just try and get horses out at the slaughter pipeline. We try and get them ... before they go to auction, before they're in such stressed out conditions, we try and rehab them and then find them good homes. And it's always hard, it's never an easy thing, but really it's so important to me.

It makes everybody feel so good when they know they can help in some way. We know we can't save them all, but the ones who can help, we're just so proud to have been able to do that for them.

John Dowdy:     Sure. Now tell me about the rescue and the Annie's project and with the dude ranch horses.

Teri Allen:         So we have partnered with another rescue here in Colorado, actually they're in Elizabeth, and it's Drifter's Hearts of Hope. And we were asked to partner with the Annie project, which is we take in retired dude ranch horses. There was just an abundance of ranch horses, guests horses that were going through these livestock auctions.

And so Jackie from Drifter's decided that maybe it was a good idea to talk to them and try to intercept these horses prior to them going to these auctions which is really incredibly cool to be able to keep these animals out of a spotter pipeline just because once they're through an auction and they don't even nec...

Lisa and Don Schledfeldt 6 Cutting Horses and a Mule

John Dowdy:     Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. I am excited this week. We are going into the cutting horse world and we're going to swing out to Yakima, Washington, and I've got Lisa and Don Schledfeldt on the Equinety podcast this week. Lisa and Don, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Don Schledfeldt:           Well, thank you. How are you today?

John Dowdy:     We're doing just great on this side, and Lisa is there with you, as well?

Lisa Schledfeldt:            Yep. Yep, and we're really excited to be here.

John Dowdy:     Good. Well, I'm glad to have you. I know y'all are busy people out there, so I appreciate you taking the time. This week we're going to talk about six horses, and what farm isn't complete without a mule.

Lisa Schledfeldt:            Excellent.

John Dowdy:     Yeah. So I understand through our pre-call, you're got performance horses, you've got an older mare, you've got some boarding horses and of course your mule. So you've got a wide variety. You also use a lot of supplements through the years. Tell us a little bit about maybe what you've experienced, prior to using Equinety, you've got these performance horses and things. Tell us about, maybe in generic terms, your supplement. You're a fan of supplements, but it seems like there was always something just kind of missing.

Lisa Schledfeldt:            Yeah, and I'm going to let my husband expand on that because, well, he used a lot of different supplements prior and was always investigating different kinds of supplements.

John Dowdy:     And we don't have to go into specifics of names or anything, it's just I kind of want to give everybody, I'm sure there's other people similar, that are feeding a lot of different things and trying to look for stuff that would help. So that's kind of where that question's going.

Don Schledfeldt:           Yeah, I've kind of researched the supplements through the years, just kind of researching what the horses really need and just that some of the prior supplements, you heard so many good things and there was just about as many bad things about it. And on the Equinety I just noticed that most of the testimonials are all positive, and now I see why, because the results that we've seen over the other supplement, they're a little more outstanding as far as-

Lisa Schledfeldt:            Movement.

Don Schledfeldt:           Movement and-

Lisa Schledfeldt:            Coat.

Don Schledfeldt:           The coats and the looks of the horse, compared to the other products. I mean, we got some of the shiny coats and that off of some of the other ones, but not to the extent that this has. They really just looked like they came out of a bath now. Yeah, pretty unbelievable.

John Dowdy:     Yeah. Now, at the time of this recording, well, this one will be published right around the 1st of November, second week of November of 2019 so you guys just started using the Equinety product this year, right around August, September timeframe, end of August, first of September.

Don Schledfeldt:           Yeah, I think it was right around probably the first or second week of August, we started them on it.

John Dowdy:     Sure. Well, let's go through and we're going to go through, I'll just go down the line here. And so horse number one, Missy, tell us a little bit about Missy, what some of her quirks were or different things that were going on. What were you trying to help her with and then when you added the Equinety, what happened after that?

Don Schledfeldt:           Yeah, Missy, she's just a real high-caliber cutting horse. She's really, really physical in the pen. She's just full of cow.

 

Ramona Petrillo - PEFORMANCE HORSES - CRIBBER – Chronic Pain – More Calm – Better Focus – Not Hot anymore – thin shelly hooves - what happens when you stop giving Equinety

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. This week we're going to swing down into Anthony, Florida. We are going to be talking about quite a few critters this week. We've got, well, about eight horses and a Dalmatian. We're going to talk about how Equinety has impacted the lives of these horses and dog. Without further ado, Ramona Petrillo, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Ramona Petrillo:           Thanks, John. Thanks for having me on the show. I'm so excited to talk about Equinety and what it's done for all my animals.

John Dowdy:                 That's great. Well, we're glad to have you. Let's start off with a little bit of your background. Well, let's just go all the way back to the beginning, your initial studies. You're a nurse now, so you understand the science and the things, but you've been around horses for many, many years. Let's go back to your initial studies.

Ramona Petrillo:           Mkay. Yeah, I rode as a child pretty much just backyard 4-H stuff. I always wanted to be a vet. I first went to college to get my degree in animal science with a concentration in pre-veterinary medicine. I graduated with my bachelor's.

I chose instead of going into veterinary school, I had a great opportunity to do some riding and teaching and I chose that route just mainly because I wanted the opportunity to ride and teach and didn't think I could pass that down, thinking that school would always be there.

Then I dabbled into teaching. Didn't make as much of a impact as I wanted to on my career and wanted to focus more on my horses and I decided to go back to school for nursing. I am now an ER nurse.

John Dowdy:                 You see lots of activity, being an ER nurse.

Ramona Petrillo:           Oh, I do see a lot of activity in the ER.

John Dowdy:                 Yeah, no doubt. In your spare time, you also are a Magna Wave practitioner?

Ramona Petrillo:           Yes.

John Dowdy:                 Yep. Then you also do eventing, dressage, and some jumping?

Ramona Petrillo:           You got that right. I have three horses. One's an eventer, one does dressage now due to a previous injury, and the other is a showjumper.

John Dowdy:                 That's great. Well, I want to get into talking about all three of these horses, maybe what they were dealing with prior to Equinety and then after you started using the product. I think it'd be interesting to talk about Magna Wave and the benefits of Magna Wave, maybe why you picked up on doing that and how that really helps in the body. Maybe just do a little education on the benefits of Magna Wave in general, maybe why should people might should look into that.

Ramona Petrillo:           Well, Magna Wave is the brand of pulse electromagnetic field therapy. Can I just say that again?

John Dowdy:                 Sure.

Ramona Petrillo:           Magna Wave is a brand of pulse electromagnetic field therapy. I have a machine and I go to client's farms and work on their horses and them as well, if they request it. What it does, it helps heal at the cellular level, much like Equinety. I've been involved with Magna Wave for going on a little bit over three years.

Going down to the cellular level, each cell has an electromagnetic charge. Inside the cell, it's a negative charge. The extracellular fluid outside of the cell is a positive charge. It's that negative-positive charges that allow for nutrients to flow into the cell, nutrients, oxygen, and then toxins, and waste to exit the cell.

Dr Charlyn Belluzo - The Science of Amino Acids – How they work at a cellular level –

The Benefits of Long Term - Belos Cavalos Therapy Farm

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to another Equinety Podcast. I am so excited for this podcast this week. We've been trying to coordinate this for quite a few months now. Before we jump into it, if this is your first time listening in on our podcast, and maybe this is the first time you've heard about the Equinety Product, I'm going to give you a quick background on what it is and then we'll get into our guest today. This product actually started back in 1998 as a anti-aging youth formula for the 50+ crowd. Dr. Philip White, who's British, Cambridge and Harvard educated family physician, and head of the hospital for 35+ years in Canada, was able to figure out the combination of amino acids to stimulate the pituitary gland. Which then releases the necessary hormones, which help heal the body at a cellular level. That was 1998.

We skipped forward to 2014, and we put the same formula in a tub and called it Equinety, so we could market it to the horse industry. If you're looking around on Facebook and hearing people talk about it, it's quite an amazing product. We are definitely blessed. The reason I'm so excited today is our guest today, Dr. Charlyn Belluzo out of California. I'm going to give you an intro here. Grab a cup of coffee because it's a long intro, but that's okay because this is so exciting. All right, here we go. Dr. Charlyn, internationally recognized as a global health expert in both business and nonprofit sectors. She has expertise in population wellness, medical research, regulatory affairs, strategic planning, marketing and operational management, just to name a few. Her professional passion has been to promote human health and wellness, strengthen communities, generate economic prosperity, and enrich the lives of the world's most vulnerable.

She holds doctorate degrees of public health in tropical medicine and preventative health. Holds a masters degree of business administration and completed postgraduate training and a medical fellowship in HIV/AIDS research, managing international clinical trials and authoring new drug applications for regulatory drug approval. To fill in the extra time in her life, and one of the main reasons why we have her on the call today, is because she has an equine therapy nonprofit that does amazing work with among other things, trauma victims. When she first learned about the Equinety product around 2015 timeframe and saw the amino acids, she knew exactly what Dr. White was doing with this, and how it was going to help the body. Without further ado, Dr. Charlyn Belluzo, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Dr Charlyn Belluzo         I am delighted to be here. Thank you so much for the invitation.

John Dowdy:                 Well, we are happy to have you. I know there's been a lot of questions come in, and so we're just going to pick your brain if that's okay with you.

Dr Charlyn Belluzo         Fabulous. Let's get started.

John Dowdy:                 We're talking about amino acids and we're going to get into a bit of the science. There seems to be a lot of education that I guess would need to happen with a lot of people out there. They're just not familiar with amino acids. I thought this would be a great way to help them get educated. We've got a lot of educational things on our website, but there's no better substitute than to have somebody that really understands from a medical standpoint. Although your background is been more on the human side, I think as we get through this, people understand how it can translate right over into the horse world. One of the things that we were talking about, what's your take on the physiology standpoint,

Lori Ganacha - Severe Laminitis - Thin Soles -

Now happier and trimming every 3 weeks

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. This week we're swinging out to Berthoud, Colorado, and talking with Lori Ganacha. She's got an eight year old mustang that came down with some laminitis and was her first time dealing with something like this. I'm excited to share this one with you because we've been getting a lot of phone calls and emails with horses with hoof issues and thin soles and all this type of stuff, and this is going to be the perfect, at least in my opinion, perfect podcast to touch upon these things and what this mustang has gone through. So without further ado, Lori, welcome to The Equinety podcast.

Lori Ganacha:                Thank you, John. It's good to be here. I'm excited to share my story.

John Dowdy:                 That's great. Well, we're excited to have you. I believe it was back in June of this year, right around the 13th, so it's been about four months ago, you had reached out to us and I believe you and I spoke directly. You were telling me some things that were going on with your mustang. Why don't we just step back in time a little bit and share with everybody what you were going through at that time?

Lori Ganacha:                Okay, John. Well, I've got an eight year old mustang, as you said, and last May, approximately five, six months ago, he had, we had, I had what I would consider the perfect storm for a laminitic episode with my mustang, who has never had that problem before. I'll tell you what the perfect storm was. It was the beginning of spring. There was green grass coming up. They were out on pasture. I was limiting their pasture time. I've got two other horses as well, but spring grassing I've always been aware of, so it's not a full blown thing. I try to acclimate them to it. So they were on spring grass. He got his hoofs trimmed because he's a barefoot horse, and, without speaking unkindly about the farrier who did it, it was very, very, very short trim. To the point where he was lame on all four feet right after the trim. So that was the second part of this perfect storm.

The third part was we got a horrific spring storm two days later that was a combination of snow and rain and cold and nasty, windy ick. So that was the third part, and the fourth part of this perfect storm, I think, was the spring hormonal levels in this mustang. He came out of that storm because there wasn't a lot we could do during it. I got the vet out here, and he was doing okay in the mud because he had a little bit of insulation and a little bit of cold on his feet, but we took x-rays of this lame horse and he had rotated slightly in his coffin bone.

As I said, his feet were just ridiculously short trimmed and my vet basically said in a nutshell, "The next two weeks is going to be critical for him. I can't give you a great outlook on this, but I'm not going to say it couldn't be, but I'm not going to do that for you." So we also tested him for insulin resistance, which he was, and he was put on a pretty strenuous diet. She told me he's by no means obese but he needs to drop about 40-50 pounds just to take some pressure off of his feet. So that was where we sat there. I was going through this two week period, trying to keep him as comfortable as possible. I did get him in some soft ride boots, but he was pretty sore dude, let me tell you. He ended up going in his stall for the most part. Because he was so sore, we didn't want him to do anything silly if he had the opportunity to do it, like think he feels good and go run and buck or anything.

Plus he had the soft ride boots on, which was keeping him a little bit less mobile. So the outcome was not looking completely rosy. I, John, have never dealt with laminitis in a horse before,

 

Kristen Wright - Trailer Accident - Superior Hoof Recovery with Equinety

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to another Equinety Podcast. I am excited this week because we've got Kristen Wright out of Commerce, Georgia on this week's podcast and she has gone through something that everybody hopes they never have to go through. And that's a trailering accident with severe injury to her horse. And without further ado, Kristen, welcome to the Equinety Podcast.

Kristen Wright:             Thank you, guys. It's very nice talking to you guys and joining you on this beautiful day.

John Dowdy:                 Yes. Well, and I tell you the story that you have is something that everyone hopes they never have to go through. And unfortunately, you have gone through a pretty bad thing, but things are definitely looking positive. So let's go back to, Reno, is your horse's name?

Kristen Wright:             Yes.

John Dowdy:                 And so tell us about Reno, how long you've had him? I understand he's a 1300-pound buckskin, so no small animal here. But tell us how you acquired him and everything about him.

Kristen Wright:             I acquired Reno as a three-year-old and he had a pretty bad attitude. He was pretty pushy. He was just the resale project that I had planned on putting some time on in getting his bucking issues under control and sending him down the road. But he won my heart over and we ended up being a team. So come September 4th, I've owned him three years now and he has ended up being my best friend and my best hauling and partner and my only hauling partner for the past three years. So he's a cool guy.

John Dowdy:                 Now, I understand also, he's a barrel horse.

Kristen Wright:             He is a barrel horse.

John Dowdy:                 Tell us how he has done since you've a transformed him from this project into running patterns.

Kristen Wright:             Honestly, he's blown away every expectation. He's helped me reach every goal that I've set. We've competed with some of the best of the best and we stayed at the top. We placed in our first rodeo, we got second at our second rodeo ever this year. We usually, run 1D/2D about everywhere we go. And this whole situation is a little heartbreaking because we're sidelined for a little while, but we're hoping for a comeback for sure.

John Dowdy:                 Sure. And you had hoped just to win one race this year, but you actually won two with him?

Kristen Wright:             Yes. My goal was to win a barrel race this year and we've ended up winning two this year. One of those we were actually the only person in the 1D and that was an absolutely thrill. It wasn't the biggest show, but a lot of times that's not what matters sometimes.

John Dowdy:                 Right. Yeah. Getting the experience with him out there and yep. So then around, let's see, when was it? August 31st of this year, you are headed to an event and tell us what happened there?

Kristen Wright:             We were heading to a Tennessee to a barrel race, me and my mother and we were probably about an hour from our destination and the unthinkable happens and somebody in front of me... I was only traveling about 45 miles an hour and they gave no warning that they were stopping. So it was either go into oncoming traffic or go off an embankment, hit the truck or try and stop. And I tried to stop. And I didn't hit the truck. I did get stopped. But the way I had to stop ended up by sending him through my tack room wall, which is a metal wall that separates the tack room from the horse area.

John Dowdy:                 So once everything got settled down, as you made your way back to go check on him, what did that look like?

 

Cheyenne Wimberley - Ranked 14 in the world - NFR - High Performance

Horses - Recovery - Stamina - Focus - Healthy and Happy Horses

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. I am so excited this week to have on Cheyenne Wimberley out of Stevenville, Texas. Cheyenne, welcome to the Equinety podcast.

Cheyenne Wimberley:   Yes, thanks. Thanks for having me. We're ready to talk some Equinety today.

John Dowdy:                 Well that's great. I'm excited to have you on and for those tuning in and thinking to yourself, hey, I know that name, Cheyenne Wimberley. That's right, she is ranked number 14 in the world. Going to the NFR, how does that make you feel?

Cheyenne Wimberley:   Well, it's been hard to sink in but now it's getting exciting because it's been 20 years since I've been to the NFR, so it's exciting to actually be prepared to kind of try to get back to reality over there in Las Vegas.

John Dowdy:                 Yeah. Now, so 20 years. You were first at the NFR 97, 98. Tell us a little bit about that and your hiatus that you took.

Cheyenne Wimberley:   Well, I had a really great horse back in 97 and 98 and then in 98 he had a career ending injury. And so I have taken a break. I went back to school and graduated and did some life things and I continued to train for charity horses and train my personal horses. But I didn't rodeo as much as I did. And so this past year has really been a change in reality of getting back on the road.

John Dowdy:                 Speaking of that, being on the road, what was your favorite rodeo this year?

Cheyenne Wimberley:   Well I think I would have to say Cheyenne, which is kind of ironic. But Cheyenne's in July and at that time I had been rodeoing all year, but I hadn't really pushed myself and I had three horses that I was riding at that time and I had only ran them a couple times a piece, trying to get with them. And then I ran the fastest time of the rodeo at Cheyenne. And so that was a big turning point at a really tough time of year. Because at that point you either need to keep going really hard or you need to go home. And so at that point it was like, oh, those horses were starting to really, we were starting to click, things were going good. And so that was really a turning point for my year.

John Dowdy:                 Yeah, so running the fastest time, then you're thinking, well hey, maybe there's a shot. We're just going to go all in on this thing and see what happens.

Cheyenne Wimberley:   Yeah. At that point it was like, you know what? We're going to keep going. We're going to put our head down and see if we can grind it out a little bit. But that only starts the next month. That really was a grueling month. But when you're at this level, you either have to get all in or get all out. We decided to get all in at that point.

John Dowdy:                 Yeah, pretty much living well on the road 24/7.

Cheyenne Wimberley:   Yes, living the dream.

John Dowdy:                 That's right. Absolutely. For those that are looking or that maybe this is a kind of a dream for them to reach this high level, what's the best advice well that you've been given? Just through the years in barrel racing and rodeo in general?

Cheyenne Wimberley:   Well, I'd have to start, if I was getting into barrel racing from the start, I would make sure that my horsemanship skills were up to par. I think that the whole industry starts with horsemanship. Then it makes the rest of the learning a little bit easier. And then I would, there's tons of clinicians out there and I would pick a style that you like and I would stick with that style because it's easy to jump around. But then you never really master one and I would learn and just becom...

 

Sommer Smith - Performance Horses THRIVE on Equinety -

Skin Allergies - Muscle Tone - Recovery - Stamina - Shinier Coat

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to another Equinety Podcast. This week we've got Sommer Smith out of Temecula, California, and this is probably ... well, it is a new one that we have not done before. This is going to focus around the English side of show horses and, well, we're going to talk about four this morning. So without further ado, Sommer, welcome to the Equinety Podcast.

Sommer Smith:             Hi and thank you for having me. I'm excited to talk about your wonderful product and excited that we have something like this on the market for our equines and all their needs.

John Dowdy:                 Awesome. Well, and I hear some foot clopping in the background. Might you be riding a horse right now?

Sommer Smith:             Yes, I am currently on a horse. I'm here out riding out on the trails and trying to beat the heat in Southern California this year.

John Dowdy:                 Awesome. Well, that's great. Okay, so you and your husband actually have race horses, but as you were telling me in the pre-call, you decided to use your for-show horses as a test batch to see how this stuff really works.

Sommer Smith:             Correct. I originally purchased the product for one of my show horses as my test subject with the idea of using it on our race horses. The reason I decided to use it on my show horses first was I actually ride those horses versus the race horses that I do not. It gives me a better baseline of knowing the horse that I'm on and seeing how the product affects my horse when I can actually ride it myself.

John Dowdy:                 No, that makes perfect sense. And for those of you who might be tuning in, who do have high performance horses that, you know, "Hey, the horses are doing great, why would I need this product?" This is a podcast for you. So, what the quality of the horses that you have prior to even trying the Equinety, what was the overall conditions of the horses just in general?

Sommer Smith:             My horses are all in good health and show fit. The horse that I originally bought the product for, he had a minor strain that he sustained out playing out in the pasture. It was nothing major, but I was looking for something that might aid in the recovery so that I could get back to the show ring without missing too much of the season. So he became the inspiration of looking for something that would support healthy tissue growth and being able to return him to competition.

John Dowdy:                 Sure. So let's talk about this first horse. He's an eight year old hunter?

Sommer Smith:             Yes. He's quite a large horse. He's 17.1, about 1,400 pounds, so he's not a little guy. He was out playing in the pasture, kicked the fence, hooked the shoe in the fence and just had a minor strain behind. Wasn't anything major. The vet just give him a couple of weeks off and he could go back to working. I tend to be conservative with my horses and I had already planned to give him double the time off. It was fortunately not during competition season and I just wanted to get something to help support his healing, and that's when I found Equinety.

John Dowdy:                 Sure. How long has this one been on product?

Sommer Smith:             He's actually been on it now for four months.

John Dowdy:                 Okay. And how's he doing now?

Sommer Smith:             He's fantastic. We returned to the show ring, got some of the highest scores we've ever received. The trainer that I show with doesn't see my horse on a regular basis because he's out on the circuit all the time and I'm only out there part of the time,

 

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.