August 2023 Issue

Page 6 August 2023 EAST COAST EQUESTRIAN t 1G ' · 1 Wor s To $ave H I rses trom l Standard Treatment for Colic Treatment of Future - Past 30+ Years Available Now! • Wait on Veterinarian - some vets no longer make house calls • Walk horses for Hours • Give SHOT in vein - Muscle Relaxant! • Stuff stiff tube up horse's nose and down into his mouth - complications • Mineral Oil placed down tube - does not dissolve the impaction Order NOW Why is there a need for an alternative treatment for colic? Colic, World Wide in 2008, killed a record 5.9 Million Horses or approximately 1 horse every 8.9 seconds! 98%, died from impactions! Those horses received conventional colic treatments by a vet, surgery by a vet or surgeon, or were hospitalized, before they died. Why give Equine Colic Relief? • No Bowel Sounds, horse still ill? See if cures a normal bout of impaction still alive in morning? • Eliminate waiting for Vet! - Does not require a vet to administer • Eliminiate walking for hours! Ok to lie back down (if not rolling) • Eliminates Shots! Muscle Relaxants - • Eliminates Struggles & Tube Complications! • Eliminates WORRY! All natural ingredients, 14 years shelf life • Bowel sounds in 10 - 30 minutes - Cure normal bout within 3 hours colic - every time without fail! ine Coli� Relief is your Fir � t Defens� to stop bout of colic Orde� Today nline: E1uineCol � cReliefU .. A.com Retail Store Wanted -- Help Do Your Part In Saving More Horses Hanover Shoe Farm Hanover Shoe Farm in Hanover, Pennsylvania has bred champion Standardbred harness racing horses since 1926. The 3,000-acre farm is home to more than 1,000 horses. According to Syndicate Administrator, Gunjan Patel, about 300 are born there annually, with 229 foals so far this year. “We start with the desired pedigrees when breeding mares and stallions. We look for perfect conformation in foals,” Patel said, noting that they must mon- itor the mare’s cycle closely, as they sometimes ovulate before semen arrives from another farm. “We are looking to produce champions,” Patel said. With three on-staff veterinari- ans, pregnant mares are monitored around the clock, then moved to the main farm about a month before foaling. Patel said their on-staff vet is about a three-minute walk from the foaling barn. Occasionally, there are losses. When a mare is lost, a retired mare sometimes steps out of retirement and back into motherhood. One mare, named Lilting Laughter, stepped in as a nurse mare five different years after she retired. Color Your Dream and Coolest Miniatures Carla DuRand of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania owns Color Your Dream Farm, with quarter horses, and Coolest Miniatures, with miniature horses and Shetland ponies. Between them, she has five to 10 foals annually. DuRand said she increases her pregnant mares’ feed in the last trimester, to be sure they are getting 14% protein. “You start to keep track of their habits about a month away,” she said, “keeping an eye on the udder to see how it’s developing and that they’re bagging up. Thirty days prior to that they get the flu, tetanus and encephalitis shot.” Sleepless nights follow, as DuRand waits. “I use barn cams, watching from my cell phone,” she said. “I have two other people who help me keep watch. They let me know when they go to bed and then I’m on duty.” DuRand said losing a foal is always the hardest and miniature horses have more problems with foaling. According to the USDA, the foal mortality rate among domestic horses is 5.8 percent within the first month of life, but miniature horses see a higher rate of loss. Several children visit the foals to help DuRand desensitize her foals, an important step. “I love watching them grow,” she said, but then added another favorite thing. “It’s awesome when your best friend calls and says, ‘Austin just won World Champion Halter Horse at Palomino World,’ and you bred that foal. That is why I breed.” It’s Foal Season on the East Coast (Continued from page 4)