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059 – Rachel Cleary & Sam Anthrope – Horse Rehab – Equinety accelerates healing process – Suspensory – flexor tendon – Navicular – Mystery Lameness and more

4/15/2020
Rachel Cleary & Sam Anthrope – Horse Rehab - Equinety accelerates healing process - Suspensory – flexor tendon – Navicular – Mystery Lameness and more John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. This is a special one although I think every week is special but we're going to swing up into Indiana and we've got Rachel Cleary on the line now. Her background is rehabbing horses that come from well one end of the spectrum to the other and we'll get into that but what's unique about this particular podcast is she drug on one of her friends and boarders that's going to talk about her horse and how she found Equinety. So Rachel Cleary and Sam Anthrop welcome to the Equinety podcast. Rachel Cleary: Hi, thanks for having us. Samantha Anthrope: Hi, thank you. John Dowdy: Oh you bet. We're excited to have you. So let's get right into this. Rachel, let's start off with just talking a little bit about the work that you do with rehabbing horses and where do they come from, what kind of stuff do you typically deal with, how long you've been doing it, that kind of stuff. Rachel Cleary: Well we have been doing rehab really my whole life that I can remember. We've always gotten horses that have been in bad conditions and rehabbed them weight ways and health ways to get them to get show homes and things like that. We started doing physical rehabilitation about eight years ago. A certified massage therapist, rehab therapist among a million other things here. But we really do a lot of sports injuries and weight issues, elderly horses, things like that. So, a lot of extreme cases come in as far as pain or just in your general killer pin type courses that have been abused so not just weight gain but physical rehabilitation. John Dowdy: Yeah, so we can be talking from something very I mean like a weight gain type of thing which nutrition and some exercising things to very severe like we've got to have the professional team because I mean you do work with, well tell us about the team that you work with. Rachel Cleary: Absolutely. I have an awesome team. I have a veterinarian that is one of which is our, we call her our emergency onsite farrier, Chris Chapel. She lives about 10 miles from us so she can get to the barn pronto. She is always got eyes on our horses. We have a corrective farrier, Dan Woody, who's also an RVT who does all of our balancing with the hoofs. And then we work with Dr Davern from Centaur Equine Specialty Hospital in Shelbyville, Indiana. He is a surgeon and he takes all of our extreme cases and helps us with these really tough journeys so we have a great team. John Dowdy: Yeah, that's incredible. Now let's talk about now you've been doing this for a long time and you've been using the Equinety product for about how long? Rachel Cleary: Since July of 2017 so this will be going on our third year so about two and a half years with the product. John Dowdy: And I think it's important because the reason I asked you that question is since you've been doing rehab work that brings all kinds of challenges to the table you didn't have Equinety. You've only been using it for two and a half years. So what is the biggest thing that you've noticed since adding Equinety to your program? Rachel Cleary: How fast this product accelerates everything that we do from weight gain to muscle gain, to the healing processes of physical wounds, flesh wounds, cuts like that, and internal wounds as far as suspensory injuries and torn muscles and things like that. We've been doing it a long time and rehab's tough and every horse is different. And even with the weight gain issues you're not just targeting one thing. A lot of times where we have to treat ulcers or absorption issues, we are dealing with lameness issues and all of this while we are trying to bring that horse back to life with nutrients. So this product is helping in all of those areas.

Duration:00:32:28

058 – Mary Patterson – Trail Horse – Very reactive, anxious, couldn’t control her attention or focus, easy keeper – Now Happier, More Muscle, More Focused, More Balanced

4/8/2020
Mary Patterson – Trail Horse - Very reactive, anxious, couldn't control her attention or focus, easy keeper – Now Happier, More Muscle, More Focused, More Balanced John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing up into Iowa. We've got Mary Patterson on this week. Mary, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Mary Patterson: Well, thank you for having me, John. I'm excited to talk about this great product. John Dowdy: Well, we're excited to have you on, as well. And, as with most of these podcast, I came across one of your comments on our Facebook advertising that we do so much of and I believe the way that it was worded that this product literally saved your horse's life and I'm like, okay, we've got to dig into this one to see what's going on. Because I tell people this is not a miracle supplement but some of these stories, it really makes you wonder sometimes. But, before we get into all of that, you have a trail horse. Tell us about this mare and what she was like prior to anything going on. What was your daily activities like and what did you guys do together? Mary Patterson: Okay, well, she is a 15-year-old quarter horse mare and have done a lot of trail riding on her. Showed her in her earlier years and then have just been riding with my friends usually three times during the week and every weekend going camping. She's been to South Dakota and just all over for me. She's my primary mare and my go-to so I put a lot of miles on her. And, because she's such a steady mare, I decided that I wanted to raise a colt out of her. So at 14 years old I got her bred and she had her first foal in May of this year at 15 years old. So, very happy that the birth and everything seemed to go well. But she did colic that night that she foaled, which is very unusual. Mary Patterson: This mare is just the image of health all of her life, very easy keeper, but she had just foaled and with her uterus contracting, she did colic and we were able to give her some Banamine and she came out of that and for the next couple of months didn't seem to really miss a beat. She was back to being fat and nursing that colt and he was growing good until July 30th and that day was very scary for me. Mary Patterson: She had been colicky the evening before and we were able to give her some Banamine and she kind of came out of it. Then that morning of the 30th she was still a little uncomfortable and not eating. So we gave her some more Banamine and then, by the time I left for work, she was [inaudible 00:03:01] a bit and had passed some piles [inaudible 00:03:04]. I was still concerned and was able to get off work a little early and come home to check on her. And when I looked in the barn about 2:00 that afternoon, it was evident that she was in distress. Mary Patterson: She had been rolling. She had some marks on the side of her head where she had obviously scuffed her face when she'd gotten down. I quickly got her to Iowa State University in Ames, which is about [inaudible 00:03:36] away from me. They have a great team there and they descended on her. And, as each test came in, it was just getting more and more grim. The tentative diagnosis they gave me was a nephrosplenic entrapment. This is where the gut is actually trapped over the ligament that supports the kidneys and the spleen. Not a good diagnosis. John Dowdy: No. Mary Patterson: That was my focus, just saving the mare. The surgery is probably, oh gosh, seemed like I was there for days, but a couple hours, three hours surgery where they have to remove the whole gut and bring it down and then go through each section of the intestine, which she did have a twist in her small intestine, as well, and put all that back in place. And she came out of that surgery. I've never been so scared in my life because she just looked horrible and they put her back to ICU and she had her colt at her side, as well,

Duration:00:26:27

057 – Janet Culley – My Horse was Depressed – Abused – Life is Back After 9 years – Happy – Majestic – Running and Playing

4/1/2020
Janet Culley – My Horse was Depressed – Abused – Life is Back After 9 years – Happy – Majestic – Running and Playing John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety Podcast. We're going to swing up into Alabama. We've got Jan Coley on the podcast this week, and I'm going to tell you this story is... I'm just going to say it's unbelievable. If you're dealing with this scenario, a situation with your horse that you believe you're boxed in a corner and you don't have anywhere to go, you got to listen to this story. It's absolutely amazing and might even bring a tear or two, because this is the ultimate comeback story, I would say. So without further ado, Jan Coley, welcome to the Equinety Podcast. Jan Culley: Well thank you, and thank you for allowing me to tell my story. John Dowdy: Well, we're excited. As every week, I'm excited to have guests on and to share these stories, and I think this one is probably one of the most intense ones that we've had on. So let's just start from the beginning. Tell us about this horse. Well, let's just start from the beginning. Jan Culley: Okay. I bought Chino in 2006 I believe it was, beautiful horse. And I worked with him every day basically. Then I had someone come up and say, "Well, I know a good person who can train him." He was still a stallion. He was two years old, two and a half years old. I should have queried it more, but he was a farrier. The farrier was a farrier of mine who was very good, and it was his brother that supposedly trained horses. I just took it as it was a good thing. John Dowdy: Sure. Jan Culley: Of course we asked where do we take him, and everything, and made the arrangements and he loaded on the trailer without a problem. He was good as gold and went to this place where there was other horses but nobody around. And I thought, well, this is really strange. I hated to leave him, but they told me to put him in a stall and that they'd be there to work with him. Well, as far as I knew, that's where he was. Of course we took with us two big tubs, the huge tubs of grain for him, what he was having, plus bales of [inaudible 00:02:48]. So he had plenty of food and everything, and I never heard anything. So I called the farrier and I said, "Hey, your brother, is your brother working with Chino? What's going on?" And he says, "well, yeah, I said he had to move him." And I said, "really? Now where to?" And he said, "well to where he lived which was even... which was quite a ways away. Jan Culley: So I said, "well, I'd like to come and see him." Well he said, "well, he needs to just have at least a week to work with them, et cetera and so on." And he said, "and then after that it you are more than welcome to go and see him." So I guess some people they don't like anybody to be there that first week. So I said, "well okay, would you ask him to call me please?" And anyway, never got a call. And then I called the guy again and I said, "look, I need to go and see the horse. And he said, "well, here's my dad's number if you call him first and then he can give you directions." Well, I called the father and he said, "well, can you leave it another week?" He said, "we're really working with him right now." And I said, "no." I said, "I need to come and see him right now." This was like three weeks after. John Dowdy: Wow. Jan Culley: Must have been going on the fourth week. And so I got the address and everything and he says, "why don't you just leave it a few more days?" I said, "no, I'm coming right now." And we left and got there and I was almost sick. He was skin and bone. He was stood this cage like thing. I don't know what they used it for. It's still a lot. And he had a saddle on and that saddle had apparently been on him for days. John Dowdy: Holy cow. Jan Culley: And he was stood there and just awful. And I went into him and he just his eyes were vacant basically.

Duration:00:31:27

056 – Elizabeth Welch – Severe Foundered Horse – Significant Sole Depth – Laminitis – IR – Picky Eater

3/25/2020
Elizabeth Welch – Severe Foundered Horse – Significant Sole Depth – Laminitis – IR – Picky Eater John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. We are swinging up in the great state of South Carolina. We've got Elizabeth Welch on the coldest week. Elizabeth, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Elizabeth Welch: Hi. Thanks for having me. John Dowdy: Well, it's always a pleasure. We're always excited and welcome, welcome. So let's talk a little bit about your background. You're in the hunters and the jumper world. How long have you been doing that? Elizabeth Welch: Oh gosh, pretty much since I was a kid. I started out doing the Hunters and I've dabbled in some other disciplines, but I always come back to the hunter jumpers. And then I got into the jumpers when I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, somewhere in there. And I've been kind of doing both ever since. John Dowdy: Well, fantastic. And one of the reasons I reached out to you specifically is you had sent, or actually had posted, I think originally, kind of a testimonial. You'd commented on one of our Facebook ads about a mare that was foundered and you had noted that you could see a definite improvement in the feet or hooves and significant increase in soul depth. So I had reached out to you and you had sent some radiographs and things, and I asked for your permission to post those as an ad, which have been running for quite some time. John Dowdy: And although you were a bit apprehensive about doing the podcast, I sweet talked you into it, I think. So here we are. Elizabeth Welch: Here we are. John Dowdy: But one of the interesting things, I always find this a humorous myself, because you always have people that they comment on these things and here we're talking radiographs. And there's a lot of people like, "Oh my gosh, thank you so much for sharing." Because they're dealing with similar issues. We're talking about a foundered horse, and as we were chatting prior to recording, you also let me know this horse, it actually had IR and laminitis, picky eater, everything kind of hit at once. John Dowdy: But in regards to the actual x-rays that we are showing, of course you have naysayers, which I think are in any niche out there, that are saying there is no way that these are the same x-rays. And of course, you've been doing your best jumping in there, "Hey, these are mine and I've got a whole catalog..." And yada, yada, yada. But let's go back to the beginning of what this horse... I mean, it was perfectly fine. Then one day, it started showing signs of an abscess, but tell us what was going on and what happened from the beginning and about what the timeframe was on this? Elizabeth Welch: So it was roughly the end of September of last year, 2019, and the horse just sort of became acutely lame, but it was really concentrated in her right front and it really just presented like a horse that seemed like it was going to blow an abscess. The horse became acutely lame and it was lame in one foot. She never presented like a laminitis horse at the time. She never looked rocked back, never was trying to get all the weight off the front feet. So for a couple of days, we said, oh well, looks like she's going to have an abscess. And we kind of treated her like she was going to have a foot abscess. Elizabeth Welch: Obviously, it didn't seem like it was getting better. So I had already consulted with the vet and I said, "Well, let's have the vet obviously come out and take a look at this." And if it is an abscess, see if we can figure out where it is and try to get that treatment happening. And if it's not, what the problem is. So obviously my vet came out and did some diagnostics on the horse and that is unfortunately when we took radiographs and then found out that she does have rotation. She had rotation in both front feet, worse in the right than the left. Elizabeth Welch:

Duration:00:22:47

054 – Monica Kay – Softer Shinier coat, stronger hooves, muscle tone, more focused, faster recovery

3/18/2020
Monica Kay - Softer Shinier coat, stronger hooves, muscle tone, more focused, faster recovery John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We are going to swing up into Ohio and we've got Monica Kay on the podcast this week. Monica, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Monica Kay: Hello, thanks for having me. John Dowdy: Oh, you bet. It's a pleasure. We're excited to have another guest on this week. I first came across your posting. You actually had listed a review or posted a review on our Facebook page and it simply said, let me find it here, "We've had great results with our mare on Equinety. Such a difference in her coat, hooves and muscle tone, highly recommended." Now that was short and sweet, but the pictures you posted, tell a completely different story. For example, and we're going to have this posted on our website below this podcast so you can see the before and after photos, and not only was the coat dull to shiny, but the hooves, I think were the biggest difference. Although the before pictures were in wintertime, you could see that the hooves were ripply and kind of flared at the bottom and the after pictures looks like in the spring and sunlight, but you can see a significant difference in the hooves. Let's go back and how did you find this horse? What was going on with it when you first found it? Let's just start there. Monica Kay: Okay. Well, we found this horse that was for sale. We really didn't have the intentions of buying a horse, didn't really need another horse, but when we seen the condition that the horse was in underweight, its hooves hadn't seen a farrier in a year. It became a rescue mission where we knew that we had to get the horse out of that situation and start taking care of her. We did end up buying the horse and we noticed she had a little bit of speed on her and thought, "Well, maybe she could be my daughter's next speed horse or contester." John Dowdy: Right, and she's interested in barrels and poles and things of that nature. Monica Kay: Right. Correct, correct. John Dowdy: Yeah, so when you got her home, obviously, you had mentioned she was kind of a rescue mission at this point, but so we would assume you probably vet checked and started putting a feed and nutrition to her. What kind of changes were you seeing just by doing that? Monica Kay: I mean, she started just the feed. She started putting on some weight, but I mean her coat still kind of looked dull. We got the farrier out right away to trim her feet and they still just, I mean, even being trimmed, they would grow funny. They had these ripples to them, they just did not look healthy. John Dowdy: Mm-hmm (affirmative), and then someone mentioned a product called Equinety Horse XL. Tell us about that. Monica Kay: Mm-hmm (affirmative), so a lady at one of the barns that I know, she has an older horse that was having some lameness and she started him on Equinety and noticed a difference that he wasn't as stiff, and she mentioned it. Then we had been talking to Danielle Bowser and she mentioned that all their horses are on Equinety so we thought, "You know what, we're going to try it. People rave about it," so we just took the leap of faith and got some Equinety. John Dowdy: Awesome, and how long were you using the product before you started noticing changes? Monica Kay: Within a few weeks, I would say to notice the changes, especially in her personality and her muscle tone and her coat, health slowly came on too. I mean, I would say within a few months all of it came together and we noticed a huge difference. When we first got her, we would be saddling her and she would rear up and flip over or trying to take her into a chute at a show, she would rear up and just ... I mean, she's a ball of energy in the first place, but it was a safety risk. John Dowdy: Sure, sure. Now, you said that you noticed changes in a couple of weeks.

Duration:00:13:41

Equinety Ultimate OEC Launches – Dr. Zach Bruggen DVM – Flaxseed Omega 3 – Vitamin E – Colloidal Silver

3/10/2020
Equinety Ultimate OEC Launches - Dr. Zach Bruggen DVM - Flaxseed Omega 3 - Vitamin E - Colloidal Silver John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinity podcast. We're going to swing out into the great state of Arkansas next to my old Oklahoma stomping grounds. We've got Dr. Zach Bruggen, veterinarian on the line. Doc, welcome to the Equinity podcast. Dr. Bruggen: Hey John, how are you? I'm excited to be here and talking about what we got coming down the line with the Equinity line of products. John Dowdy: And other things. Yes. You almost let the cat out of the bag, which is perfectly fine. For almost five years we've been on the market now with the Equinity Horse Excel, which is a 100% pure amino acids. There is no fillers, sugars, starches. There's no loading dose. It has a really taken on a life of its own. It's one of the reasons why we started the podcast. I guess you found out about the Equinity Horse Excel probably a couple of years ago, I'd say, thereabout. Dr. Bruggen: Yeah, that's right. John Dowdy: So. Go ahead. Dr. Bruggen: I was just introduced to the product on social media and then here in the community, hearing horse people talk about it and the results that they were experiencing with their horses. I'm always down to try some of the supplements out on the market with my own horses and get a feel for what's out there, which is what I ended up recommending to my clients for their horses. It was really imperative for anything that I recommend that I try it myself and my horses. I gave Equinity a try and have been super impressed with not only my horses response to it, but also all of my clients as well. John Dowdy: Sure. Now when you first saw the product and saw the combination of amino acids, what was your initial thought? Because, being in the veterinarian field, and we talk to a lot of veterinarians on this side. It all depends on the school they come from. Some of them are like, "Oh my gosh, I've never seen a combination like this." Others are like, "They're amino acids." I guess that's typical in any field. What was your reaction and thoughts when you first saw it? Dr. Bruggen: My thought was that it was formulated perfectly because it's pure amino acids. It was at a concentration that I knew was going to be efficacious for the horse. Amino acids are the building blocks for all the proteins of the body. We know that this is essential for horses to basically go throughout the day and do what we ask them to do. Whether that's trail riding, performance riding, or even just being a pasture pet. Looking closely into the ingredient list, we know that there's not any fillers. It is just plain amino acids which are bio-available to the horse that they can utilize to help regenerate and recover the cells that are undergoing compromise. I thought that the product had a very solid foundation. There's plenty of studies out there that support the supplementation of amino acids in human medicine. I knew that that would translate over to the horses just because of the pure foundation of what amino acids are and then what they provide for the body. John Dowdy: Sure. Without getting too in depth on this particular podcast, as we get into the nutritional aspect, and again, taking into consideration, depending on what part of the country you're in, sometimes you have to supplement more of one thing and other people don't. Speaking from our side and what this Equinity Horse Excel to us, every horse in every part of the country and in other countries, they all seem to be benefiting from this stack of amino acids that we have in a Equinity Horse Excel. It doesn't matter if it's a high performance born that gets the creme de la creme to the everyday chill writer or the everyday horse owner that's just trying to do good by their horse.

Duration:00:38:24

053 – Beverly Ann Detlefsen – Easy Keeper – Heaves – Depressed – Faster Recovery – More Focused

3/4/2020
Beverly Ann Detlefsen - Easy Keeper – Heaves – Depressed - Faster Recovery – More Focused John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to keep it right here in the sunny state of Florida we've got Beverly [Detleson 00:00:08] on the Equinety podcast this week. Beverly, welcome to the call. Beverly Ann Detlefsen: Hi, how are you? John Dowdy: I'm doing very well. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your Equinety story. I believe I came across your story because you posted a review on our Facebook page. I'm like wow, that's pretty intense. I reached out to you and here we are. Tell us about your horse and kind of what was going on there and let's just start there. Beverly Ann Detlefsen: All right, well Jasper is a, he'll be coming 15 years old this next year. We've owned him his whole entire life. He was born here at our farm in [Alottey 00:00:52]. His mama was actually my horse so it was kind of cool. Kind of felt like he had to be my horse because his mom was my horse. I sent him out to Oklahoma two years ago because I was going to nursing school and we had a close friend out there that didn't mind taking him at the time. He recently came home after he only had a little trouble out there. I knew, I wasn't sure what all he was going to need whenever he came home but I wanted him to be on Equinety because I had him on it prior two years ago whenever he left. Beverly Ann Detlefsen: He did so great on it then, it was helping him run better, run stronger, recover faster and the lady that went out there to pick him up, her name is [Diane Fryer 00:01:38]. She knew Jasper prior to whenever he went out there. She called me, she was like hey I just want you to know that this is, this isn't the horse you sent out there. You just need to prepare yourself. I really wasn't sure what she meant by that. I was just trying to prepare myself and when I opened the trailer door he was thin, his hair was, his tail was falling out and he wasn't really there mentally. He was just kind of a horse that was there. I started him on Equinety immediately because God knows he needed all the help he could get. John Dowdy: Now before you go any further you had already had him on Equinety prior to sending him out to Oklahoma and what kind of personality did he have? Beverly Ann Detlefsen: He's always been very nosy, a little bossy, always kind of in your pocket, very personable and always has something to say about everything. He's a true one on one horse for sure. John Dowdy: Yeah so you sent him out there because it was at the time going to be the best place for him because you're going to nursing school. He was out there what, for a couple of years? Beverly Ann Detlefsen: Yes, for two almost years almost to the date actually. John Dowdy: You were kind of forewarned coming back that it was not the horse that you sent out there so what did you find when he came off the trailer? Beverly Ann Detlefsen: When I opened the trailer door I never, he's a very easy keeper. I'm going to throw that out there before I say this. I mean he's a very easy keeper, always has been his whole life. He was so [inaudible 00:03:17] I mean he was just, he looked okay from the side his ribs were showing but looking at him front and back he was so narrow. You could see his tailbone sticking up, you could just feel his chest bone in between his front legs which I have never actually experienced with a horse. I was absolutely blown away that he was in that condition. John Dowdy: Wow, that had to be really, really tough especially sending him out here thinking that he's going to be taken well care of. Beverly Ann Detlefsen: Yes. John Dowdy: Wow, now was he, were you using him for anything prior to that, he was a performance horse or what was his job? Beverly Ann Detlefsen: He's been a barrel horse his whole life. He had a little bit of a late start.

Duration:00:17:50

052 – Holly Ann Such – Cushings – Healthier Coat – More Spry – Thin Soles – Feeling Better – Stopped Swaying in Stall

2/26/2020
Holly Ann Such – Cushings – Healthier Coat – More Spry - Thin Soles – Feeling Better – Stopped Swaying in Stall John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety Podcast. We're going to swing over into St Augustine, Florida. And we've got Holly Ann Such on the Equinety Podcast this week. Holly, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Holly Ann Such : Thank you so much. I'm very excited to be here. John Dowdy: Well, we're excited to have you as well for another great story. I actually came across one of your comments on our Facebook advertising, and what caught my eye was you said, "This stuff works!" with three exclamation points. And then the next line is what got me. You said you were contemplating, "putting my mare down, because she was always in so much pain with her thin sole." So this was a last ditch effort. So tell us about your mare, what her... She's retired now, but what she was doing in her previous life, how long you've had her, and what you were dealing with? Holly Ann Such : So originally my mare came over from the Netherlands as a jumper, and after she retired from that, we decided to put her into dressage. So my trainer and I worked her up the levels, and we just always knew that her feet weren't fantastic. So we thought being in dressage was probably the best way for her to go. And even in the dressage work, the pressure was too much. She would always end up blowing an abscess, and then we would heal her from that one, get her back in shape, and then another one. It was just a rotating door. We were never really able to keep her sound much longer than a few weeks at a time. So at that point I decided the best thing for her was for me to go ahead and retire her about four years ago, when she was 16. John Dowdy: Right. And so with as you're describing one hoof issue, then the next one I picture when I would take my son to a Chuck E. Cheese, and that one little game where you had the big mallet, and you're trying to whack each one of the little things, the clowns that are popping up. It's like you get this one fixed, and then you got one over here, and then one over here. So it was just a battle all the time. And you were having to use a Bute as I understand, to try to deal with the pain. But she also had a great farrier. So you were able to manage with what you had pretty much all the time? Holly Ann Such : Yeah. Yes, pretty much. We tried to only give her Bute really every time we would put a new set of shoes on her, or we would try something different with her, she would get really, really sore. And we tried everything from pads, glue on shoes, every type of different shoe you could think of. My farrier and my vet even contacted other, at some farriers around the United States to get ideas about what to do with her. And just nothing seemed to work. And she would just be in so much pain after each trimming that we would have to give her Bute just to make her comfortable. Holly Ann Such : And then within the last probably six, seven months, she was just in so much constant pain all the time that we started her on a daily dose of Bute, which at that point is when I decided she probably didn't have the best quality of life. And that's when I was contemplating on having to euthanize her. So that's where we were as far as trying to keep her as comfortable as possible, because other than her feet, she's a pretty healthy girl, and everybody loves her. So we just wanted to do what we could for her, but. John Dowdy: Yes. Now in addition to the battling that you were having with her hooves, she's also a Cushing's horse. So you were dealing with things along that using Prascend, and dealing with lots of clippings from long coats. Holly Ann Such : Yes. So normally within the winter months we probably have to clip her every three to four weeks, just because her coat gets so thick so quickly. And we did recently clip her about two months ago.

Duration:00:18:29

051 – Elizabeth Downey – Chronic Bursitis – Lame to Sound Performance Horse

2/19/2020
051 - Elizabeth Downey - Chronic Bursitis - Lame to Sound Performance Horse John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We are swinging way up north, at least that's way up north for me. I'm down here in Southwest Florida. We're going across the border up into Montreal, Canada. Elizabeth Downey, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Elizabeth Downey: Hi, John. I'm really happy to share my story with you. John Dowdy: Good. Well, we're excited to have you and I believe, as it is right now, you are our first Canadian guest here on the Equinety podcast, which is exciting. John Dowdy: Tell us a little bit about the horse that you have. You're in the barrel racing world. Tell us a little bit about the history of your horse and what you were dealing with prior to finding Equinety and then how you found Equinety and what your experience was in the initial stages. Elizabeth Downey: All right. So Heidi is a seven-year-old quarter horse that I purchased from my father. She was a roping horse before and I was looking for something to be a little bit more competitive at the show. So my dad said I should try this horse, and eventually she came to be really, really good. So I had some of my good friends, Karen [Chantaz 00:01:11], that was using the Equinety and I thought, I should really give it a try. Elizabeth Downey: So I put the mare on the product and she started really blooming during the season, went from 3d times to 2D times to 1D times. She was very focused and she was very constant to doing a run. So at the end of the year, I was talking to some vets. They were talking about the product saying it was a shake and I should not give that if I wasn't giving exercise to my horse. So not knowing any better, I stopped using the product. And when I started training the mare again for the next season, 2019, she came up really, really lame. John Dowdy: Yeah. So let me jump in real quick. So you started in the season with the Equinety product in 2018 through the summer. And this is where you started seeing all the benefits that you're clocking from 3D to 2D to 1D. You're just noticing obviously the faster times, but focus, recovery, the stamina and everything is going great. Elizabeth Downey: Yeah, exactly. John Dowdy: And then you get to the end of the season, 2018, you're coming around to beginning of 2019 and you show this to your vet and they just say, "Oh, well that's just like a shake. Don't waste your money?" That's kind of what you were told? Elizabeth Downey: Yeah, that was pretty much it. I didn't know any better and then I thought, of course, I'm going to try to keep some money around and then I stopped using the product is my biggest regret because when I started training the mare again at the beginning of 2019, I started having some really sore feet. Of course, there was different showing involved and stuff like that, but she just didn't look how she was the summer before. So I got her checked by the vet and then she started being lame. She was so lame at one point that you could tell it was a four out of five lame on a walk. Elizabeth Downey: So I tried with the vet different orthopedic shoeing. We tried pads, we tried degree pads, we tried egg bars, we tried to injection. I tried to keep her in the stall for a certain amount of time. I try to walk her. We tried just stuff from, I'd say, March until August and there was a lot of money involved into this. Elizabeth Downey: So I decided, you know what, I have nothing to lose. She was doing great when she was on Equinety. I'm just reading all those stuff, all those papers and all the people saying it's such a great product and it's helped them so much that I'm like, you know what, I liked it and might as well put her back on it. Elizabeth Downey: Immediately when I put her back, after a week, I start noticing that she was better. Then I got a different shoe in her just saying,

Duration:00:15:11

050 – Judy Collins – Roping Horses – Retired – Sinus Infection – Ring Bone – Weak Hoof Walls – Strong hooves now barefoot – Happy and Sound

2/12/2020
Judy Collins – Roping Horses – Retired - Sinus Infection – Ring Bone – Weak Hoof Walls - Strong hooves now barefoot – Happy and Sound John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week Equinety podcast. We're going to swing down into some serious horse country in Weatherford, Texas. We've got Judy Collins here on the Equinety podcast this week. Judy, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Judy Collins: Thank you. Thank you for letting me tell my story. John Dowdy: Oh, absolutely. We're excited as always and what caught my eye, of course we run a lot of Facebook advertising and I believe it was you had posted a comment because you were dealing with an older retired horse, 30 years old and dealing with the sinus infection and you had asked if we thought this product would help. I think the short answer was yes, because it's always going to help with recovery, but tell us exactly what was going on with Hank and what you were dealing with for quite a while. Judy Collins: Well, Hank got an abscess tooth and we had no idea he had it. He had not gone off feed. He had not acted sick. And then we came home one night from a roping and he had discharge coming out of one side of his nose and it smelled terrible, it reeked. You could smell it the minute you walked into the barn. And we FaceTimed my son and his wife are vets here in Weatherford and they said, "Well he has an abscess tooth. Bring him into the clinic. We'll take care of it." We took him to the clinic and they couldn't get the tooth pulled and they did an X-ray of his sinus cavity and it was full of infection, so they ended up having to do a surgery. And they did the surgery. They kept him for a week and treated him there at the clinic. Judy Collins: And then we brought him home and in this process they had drilled a hole in between his eyes on his forehead for this infection to drain out. And then we had to take a tube and put it in that hole and flush those sinuses out and we did that for about a month and a half until the hole finally closed up. And he was on strong, strong antibiotics the whole time this was happening. As soon as he went off the antibiotics, about two or three weeks, we started getting the discharge again and the strong odor. And so we just have to keep putting him on antibiotics. And they tried multiple brands of antibiotics and as soon as he would go off it would come back. So then we ultimately ended up doing a second surgery and this time they put a port in his forehead and we still had to go back to all the flushing. Judy Collins: And we did that for about another month, three weeks to a month and then they took all that out. And again, we just were constantly the sinus infection. And as soon as he would go off antibiotics, it would start back up again. And so we did this for two years on and off with antibiotics. We did a hair analysis with vet in Pilot Point and had supplements made specifically for him to help build his immune system up and so on. And during all that, we were still battling this. It just wasn't going away. I'd seen an ad on Facebook for Equinety and I messaged you guys and I asked, "This is what we're dealing with, do you think this will help?" And your response was certainly you thought it would help, so I was willing to give it a try and we tried it and we bought the big tub, which is a 90-day supply and about 60 days into it I started seeing a difference and he had been on antibiotics the first month with it, we'd taken him off and I would say by the end of the 90 days we were at a point where there was no antibiotics at all anymore. John Dowdy: Wow. Judy Collins: Yeah, we were very impressed and that was the only thing we had changed in his routine was the Equinety. John Dowdy: Well in all of that time in the surgeries and what was his attitude and demeanor like going through all this? Judy Collins: Well, he's one of those super calm, super easy to work with horses.

Duration:00:15:22

049 – Danielle Thumma – Lameness – Stifles – Injections – Lot of Pain – Unhappy – Depressed

2/5/2020
Danielle Thumma - Lameness – Stifles – Injections Lot of Pain – Unhappy – Depressed John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're swinging up into Maryland this week and we've got Danielle Thumma on the line here. Danielle, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Danielle Thumma: Hi, John. Thank you for having me today. John Dowdy: Well, you're very welcome. And once again, we're always excited to have our guests here on the Equinety podcast. And this one, well, I think I had reached out to you. I saw you comment on one of the ads that we had going and you started off something like this, "I love, love, love Equinety. It truly saved my horse's life." I said, "Okay, let's hear this one." Because we do hear some pretty amazing stories. I tell people all the time, this is not a miracle supplement. It's not the end all, be all. You got to have the proper care and nutrition and veterinarian care and farriers and all the stuff that comes along with taking care of a horse. But when you're able to add this Equinety product to those things, sometimes things can turn out to be a miraculous situation. So you also have been working in the veterinarian field for about 10 years, I believe it was? Danielle Thumma: Yeah. Yeah. That's right. John Dowdy: 10 years. So you work for an equine vet. So tell us a little bit about the horse that you have here. How long have you had this horse? What was going on? And we'll start there. Danielle Thumma: Sure. So MVP is a 17 year old thoroughbred off the track. I've had him since he was four, so about, I guess, 13 years now. And he was supposed to be my event horse, which he didn't exactly like and then we found fox hunting was something he enjoyed. About five years ago, he started having some soundness issues in his hind end and we narrowed it down to stifles and we did some injections and they helped for a while and then it got to the point where they just weren't keeping him sound and comfortable. I took him down to Morven Park to see one of the surgeons there. And they basically looked at everything and said that there was nothing that could really be done to repair his stifles. Danielle Thumma: So after that, we kept him, we tried doing small paddock and stall rest and none of it really made any difference and he was very unhappy. So it progressed to the point where we put him on, he was on Bute twice a day and we had to increase his dose to about four grams a day, which is a really high dose for horses. The recommended dose is one gram twice a day for no more than seven to 10 days. But the Bute worked for a little while and then it stopped working. And then my boss and I looked into other pain relief sources. We did some dexamethazone, which is a steroid. And he was on 40 milligrams a day, which was a very high dose, not recommended for longterm use. Danielle Thumma: And it got to the point where that was not keeping him pasture sound. He was uncomfortable, he would very quietly walk around. There was no more exuberant running around happiness. So I was sort of faced with the decision that it was going to be best to euthanize. And I saw the ad for Equinety on Facebook. So I clicked on it and I looked into it for a bit and I decided that it was worth a shot. It wasn't going to hurt him. It wasn't going to cost me an arm and a leg to see if it made any difference. So I ordered it and I got him started on it. And within about two weeks he was happier and running around with his buddies again. And just really a completely different horse. John Dowdy: So from a horse that you were looking at having to just put down because of the pain. You'd tried everything else from Bute to steroids, the surgeon said surgery wouldn't help at all. So here you are looking at possible having to put this horse down and within two weeks of using Equinety he's running arou...

Duration:00:10:30

048 – Lisa Lyons – Sole Depth – Underweight – More Focus – Better Attitude – More Topline – Muscle Quality – Cushings

1/29/2020
Lisa Lyons - Sole Depth - Underweight – More Focus – Better Attitude – More Topline – Muscle Quality – Cushings John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing out to the West Coast of California. That's West Coast for me because I'm in Florida. Lisa Lyons out of California. Welcome to the some other podcast. Lisa Lyons: Thank you. It's great to be here. John Dowdy: Well we're excited to have you. A couple of weeks ago you sent me some before and after pictures of your horse's hoof that was severely foundered. And the pictures are quite shocking. We've been running this as an ad for the last couple of weeks and it's got a lot of activity. And let's just talk about this particular horse, how long you've had him and how did you learn about the Equinety and what were your thoughts when you first got the Equinety? Lisa Lyons: Okay, well Calvin is a 10 year old, 17 hand, national show horse. I've had him for two and a half years. He was purchased as a project horse. He was underweight, under muscled, didn't have the greatest feet, but had a heart and soul. So got him, got him into training, was given a sample of your product at a horse show. And like so many samples, threw it in my bag, didn't think too much of it at the time. Lisa Lyons: When I got home I decided to read the back of it, do a little research, was impressed with the ingredients, the testimonials seemed good. It's not a banned substance. I can give it to my horses that go to USCF shows, not worry about any drug testing problems. And right off the bat I noticed with Calvin he seemed more focused, more calm, better attitude, better focus. And as an added bonus he was in training, was getting good nutrition and good farrier care. But he started developing a much better top line, better muscle quality and unbeknownst to me, it was helping him grow his soles. He didn't have the greatest feet and had some corrective shoeing done. Lisa Lyons: And anyway, flash forward to previous May, he'd been doing great and then came down with a severe case of mechanical founder. It happened very quickly. One day he was fine, next day I got the call and it was a touch and go for a while. He had to be hospitalized twice. A lot of radiograph, a lot of vet care, change of diet during his vet care. He was hooked up to IVs because everything got so inflamed. And one thing my vet commented on during all the radiographs was that he had a good amount of sole which probably saved his life. Because when he rotated the coffin bone it didn't drop down due to the sickness of his soles. John Dowdy: Yeah, so just to reiterate, so you had him for two and a half years. After about six months of owning him is when you started him on the Equinety and that's where you really noticed the muscle quality, the attitude focus, and a little did you know it was also helping with the sole depth, which is obviously came in handy for this mechanical founder. Now for those that are tuning in and have never heard of mechanical founder, could you tell us exactly what that is? Lisa Lyons: Sure. I mean, in my layman's terms, I'm not a vet. Most founder is caused by something metabolic and in some other instance, Cushing's, are highly susceptible to laminatic issues and with mechanical founder due to confirmation. And his confirmation is very straight up and down. And that's how it was explained to me by the vet. John Dowdy: Yeah. And I find that... Well I would say what I want to say is, I find this interesting because it's the first story that I've heard of where, you had started the horse on the Equinety product and he was on it for a year and a half. And then this happened where, well, it would have been life ending for him if it wouldn't have been the sole depth. Lisa Lyons: Absolutely. John Dowdy: And here's the one thing that we tried to get across to people and a lot ...

Duration:00:16:06

047 – Sara Turner – BIG Skeptic – Performance Horses – Chronic Pain – Fox Hunting – More Stamina – Responsive – Less Stressed

1/22/2020
Sara Turner - BIG Skeptic – Performance Horses – Chronic Pain Fox Hunting – More Stamina – Responsive – Less Stressed John Dowdy: Hello, and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing up into Virginia. We've got Sara Turner on, and we're going to talk about fox hunting, although I was corrected just a bit into fox chasing, but we'll get into that. So the difference, what is this sport? And it sounds like a lot of fun. I've never personally done it, but after speaking with Sara, I think I'm sold. So without further ado, Sara Turner, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Sara Turner: Hi, thank you for having me. John Dowdy: Well, it's great to have you and I'm excited for this one because I don't believe that we've had anybody in this fox hunting, fox chasing niche on the Equinety podcast. So let's talk about this sport that you do. How far back does it go, and tell us a little bit about the adventures. Sara Turner: Sure. I'm excited to talk about it and share my experiences with Equinety and with my two Thoroughbreds, who I actively hunt. So I'm located between Charlottesville and Richmond in Virginia, and I'm lucky enough that I live in what I consider the epicenter of fox hunting in the country. There are recognized hunts all over the U.S., and when I say recognize, that means they're recognized by the Masters of Foxhounds Association, which is actually located two hours north of me in Middleburg, Virginia. It's a deep, deep, traditional, long part of the Virginia culture. And it's a wonderful, wonderful sport. If you enjoy horses and we call them hounds, we don't say dogs. Dogs, the countryside, an adrenaline rush, then it just work for you. Unlike most other equestrian sports, there's not a ribbon at the end of the day. And I'm just fine with that. There's a big smile on your face and everyone's high fiving that you survived the day. Sara Turner: We are out there to have fun, enjoy the countryside, enjoy our horses and enjoy watching the hounds work. So that's the sport. And the hunts that I hunt with, there'll be a scheduled hunt three days a week. So unlike horse showing, which I did in my past life, if you have a bad show, you walk away, wasn't great. I chipped that jump and you know it, I just spent the whole weekend and the whole week preparing for it. If you have a bad hunt or something goes wrong, guess what? You wake up two days later, you'd go back out and you'd try it again. And everyone's there. And it's a very deep rooted community in the fox hunting world. Very supportive. You know, just people want to have fun and want everybody to be safe. So I'm happy to tell you a little bit how a typical hunt would work if you want me to [crosstalk 00:02:47]. John Dowdy: Absolutely. Well, we've come this far. We can't stop now. Sara Turner: Okay, each club has staff and we have a huntsman who manages and takes care of our hounds. Each club will have, I don't know, somewhere between maybe 80 and 120 hounds that they feed and care for. And our hounds are our pride and joy and so much goes into their breeding and their care. So we'll show up at what we call a fixture. It's pre scheduled, a time and a place and usually in the middle of a cow field somewhere or at someone's beautiful estate in central Virginia. You park your trailer and the hound truck will arrive with usually 30 hounds and the staff horses all crammed into a trailer. And the members of the hunt show up. We finish tacking up, we get on our proper attire and there'll be maybe a quick, what they call a stirrup cup in the beginning, if someone's hosting the hunt. They'll be walking around with cups of port and maybe some donuts on a silver platter. That's on a more, you know, bigger, organized day. During the week, it's not quite the fanfare. Sara Turner: The masters of the hun...

Duration:00:27:28

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

1/15/2020
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? Chris Roll: Probably it was... when they saw her, she was really bad where she wouldn't even stand up. They couldn't even trim her feet while she was standing up. They did her while she was laying down because her feet were so bad.

Duration:00:09:52

045 – Butch Myers – Depressed aging horse – Shoe Boil – thin soles – tender footed

1/8/2020
Butch Myers - Depressed aging horse - Shoe Boil – thin soles – tender footed John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing up into Falling Waters, West Virginia, and we've got an avid trail rider with a Belgian draft horse and an Oberlander draft. Butch Myers, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Butch Myers: Thank you for asking me to be on here. I really appreciate it. John Dowdy: Absolutely. We appreciate you being on, and in our conversations I hear that you seldom do reviews for products. Butch Myers: That's correct. Yeah. I usually don't bother with expressing my opinion about things usually. John Dowdy: When you've been around for a while and probably have seen a lot of things out on the market, and some don't meet to your standards, sometimes it's hard to put reviews out there. Or I guess it'd be an opportunity to do a lot of negative reviews, but who wants to be in that world, right? Butch Myers: Yeah, yeah. In the world of supplements, I think you can't really say that any one of them doesn't do ... it might do something for somebody else, but if it doesn't do it for me, then I'm just a one-time buyer. But your product really, I have definite proof that it's helped my horses with a couple of different issues, in both the Oberlander and the Belgian. I warranted that it was definitely worth me saying something about it to you all because I'm very pleased with what it's done so far. John Dowdy: Sure. So you've got ... let's first talk about the 27-year-old Belgian draft horse. Barney is his name? Butch Myers: Yeah. Yeah. Barney. Yes, sir. John Dowdy: Yeah, so tell us what was going on with him and then how you found the Equinety and what's happened since you've been using the Equinety. Let's start first with things that you are ... what have you been using him for? Some of the issues that he may have been having or was having, and then go from there. Butch Myers: Sure. Barney's 27 here in 2019. I bought him when he was 9 going on 10 and used him for a trail horse. He was actually a pulling horse out in the Midwest and I bought him from a guy that bought him from somebody else or whatever. He came through this past winter there in January of this year. He got really skinny. In a draft horse, when they get skinny, they don't look good. Their hip bones stick out and they get ribby and everything. That's what he was doing. I upped his feed substantially and that didn't seem to really help much at all. I actually saw your advertisement on Facebook and it was more or less geared towards thin-soled horses but it did say something in there, I think, about maybe a horse that was unusually thin, that it would help out. So I called your business and talked to a gentleman. He explained to me the theory behind your product and I thought, "Well, you know, it's worthwhile going ahead and buying a tub of it, and just see how it does, if I notice any difference or not." So we started Barney on it, and actually him and the other horse that we'll talk about, but it did, my wife noticed it took about 30 days or so. I figured I had enough with the bigger jar, you have 100 doses in there. John Dowdy: Yes. Butch Myers: So I figured that'd give me 50 doses for each horse. I figured in 50 days, giving them one scoop a day, to see if I'd notice anything. Probably in around the 30-day to 40-day area there, you could notice that Barney was starting to muscle up more through the chest and across his ribs. He was getting a little bit more meat on him and his demeanor, like we talked about, was changing. He was getting a little bit more peppy, like he shaved off a few years. One other thing that I just noticed here, just a couple of weeks ago here,

Duration:00:20:22

044 – Dan Chambers – Senior horse in poor condition – Navicular – Cushings/IR – now bucking and playing!

1/1/2020
Dan Chambers – Senior horse in poor condition - Navicular – Cushings/IR – now bucking and playing! John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing up into Ohio and we've got Dan Chambers on the call this week. Dan, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Dan Chambers: Thanks John. Thanks for having us. John Dowdy: Well, we're excited to have you on and this week we're going to go into the rescue world. So you and your wife had gone to an auction with no intentions of coming home with a horse. Tell us about that. Dan Chambers: Yeah, we went to the auction and my wife was looking for a horse for her granddaughter and we stayed there for the auction. They all ran through, we didn't buy anything. We're getting ready to leave. And somebody said "Well, there's a guy out here and he's got a horse for sale." So we talked to the guy for a while and he had a great big old guy. He was probably about 15 or so at that time. We've had him for about eight years now and we bought him at the sale because we were able to ride him and do things with him, and then we paid to the owner at that time for the horse and then he left him at the sale until we could find a ride for him later that evening. After that, the guy that sold him just disappeared. We never saw him again. So we went to get the horse. He was in a stall and after the tack was removed and everything out there, he didn't look like the same horse at all. He just really was underweight, didn't want to move very well and we bought him and brought him home. Had somebody haul him in for us and he got into to our house. And when they got him off the trailer here, we assumed right away, we'd kind of been duped with some drugs or something. That's the assumption on our part, but that horse could barely move when he got home and for days and weeks afterwards you kept thinking, "Well, maybe you'll get a little better here. Something will happen." We knew he was underweight, so we put a lot of groceries on him. Probably got about 200 or 300 pounds on him and he just never did move well. He would move with his shoulders. If he wanted to step to the side, he would have to take a step. Let's say he's going to the right. He would take a step with his right front, bring the left front to make the right steps or stutter stepping all the way around. He couldn't do a very fluid move or cross over with his front legs ,and it looked like it was really painful for him. John Dowdy: Right. Dan Chambers: So we had a vet come out, check him over. I thought maybe I had some shoulder or leg problems. The vet did some radiographs when we found, and he was diagnosed with navicular syndrome, with degeneration of the navicular bone that wasn't good, and that's probably never going to get any better. We can do things to ease him up by using corrective shoeing. So we had the farriers come out and work in conjunction with the vet and do corrective shoeing with the rocker shoes and shortening the toe of the horse to get a more breakover and also to lift the heels off the ground more, so that he would not get as much pressure on that navicular bone from the deep digital flexor tendon putting pressure on him. And that seemed to help him somewhat. We rose him a little bit and we could ride him for a little, but he wasn't ridden very well. His movements were coarse, they were very difficult. He could walk and trot fairly well, but with the lunge.. a lope was just lunging in the front end to get off of his front feet and coming down and it wasn't fun to ride. So we kind of basically quit. Didn't have a whole lot of other options at that time. John Dowdy: Yeah. And you were having to use some Bute and stuff periodically? Dan Chambers: We were using Bute on him, yes. But you know, we don't want to maintain that.

Duration:00:11:48

043 – Marlies Parent – New environment – Stressed – Rain Rot – Stronger Hooves – Weight gain – Happier

12/25/2019
Marlies Parent - New environment - Stressed - Rain Rot - Stronger Hooves - Weight gain - Happier John Dowdy: Hello, and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing up into Tennessee, and we've got Marlise Parent on the call this week. She going to be talking about her four-year-old Appaloosa. Marlise, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Marlise Parent: Hey John, I'm really glad to be here. John Dowdy: Great, well we're happy to have you, and let's jump right into this. I saw you commenting on some of our ads on Facebook, on some of the ads that we have going. So I reached out to you because I thought your story with your horse was pretty darn interesting, and could benefit anybody that might be going through the same thing. So tell us a little bit about how you acquired this Appaloosa, and what was going on when you brought him to your place. Marlise Parent: I'm more than happy to. I purchased him in March this year, and he was delivered to me ... from Iowa. Back in that time, they had a minus 60 degrees temperatures. It was really cold, and he walked off the floats with three blankets really bundled up. At that time in Tennessee, we were already at 65 degrees. So when he came off, he experienced not only extreme climate change, but everything else that came with it. A new owner, a new pasture, a new stable, pretty much everything around him changed. And I do believe he had a little culture shock, I would say I would call it for us humans when we move. John Dowdy: All right. Yeah, absolutely. So what was his previous life like? Marlise Parent: Well, he was a stable horse. He was stabled at night. During the day, I think they did turn him out into the pasture, but he was very well taken care of. He was a halter horse, he was a show horse, and he was babied. He still is to an extent, but in his new home, he's allowed to be more of a horse than anything else. He's a trail horse now and just ... living the good life, I hope. John Dowdy: Yeah. Hey, that's what they need. Right? So, what did you start noticing going on? And I think you as we were previously talking around a five or six months, you are kind of having some issues and noticed some weight loss going on. Marlise Parent: Exactly. I do believe the biggest problem was the diet change that he had ... and he was a show horse. They had him on a very specific diet. They bucket-fed him most of the times as he was stabled, and when he came here, he turned out into the pasture and that was pretty much it. I noticed he started losing a lot of weight because vegetation over here obviously is different as well. So, when I started worrying about his weight, I started looking up online things and at one point, Equinety popped up on my news feed on Facebook. I started looking at the pictures, I started looking at the reviews, did some more research online about it, and I figured, well, there's not much I can do wrong. If it helps, great. If not, I guess I'm just going to have to look for something else or something more to help him ... on not only the weight loss, but also an extreme case of rain rot that he acquired because he wasn't shedding after he moved from that cold environment to the relatively early, hot environment over here. So I ordered the product, and I gave it a shot. John Dowdy: Yes, and in addition, to that, you, his hooves were also pretty brittle too, weren't they? Marlise Parent: Yes, they were fairly soft. He's got four white hooves, and they were soft and my farrier office said try to put some oil on it and treat it, and there was this and that and the other. But once I put him on the Equinety, it just, it just literally fixed all the issues that I had with him within a fairly good amount of time too. John Dowdy: Yep. Marlise Parent: His rain rot went away within, I don't, don't even lie, within about four weeks. John Dowdy: Yeah.

Duration:00:14:37

042 – Arlene Bara – Lymes Disease – Coughing – Pneumonia – Swelling – Allergies – Inflammation

12/18/2019
Arlene Bara - Lymes Disease - Coughing - Pneumonia - Swelling - Allergies - Inflammation John Dowdy: Hello, and welcome to this week's Equinety Podcast. We're in for another exciting podcast this week. We're going to swing up into Pennsylvania and speak with Arlene Bara, who, well, let's just get right into this. An amazing story. So, without further ado, Arlene, welcome to the Equinety Podcast. Arlene Bara: John, good morning. I'm very excited to be a part of your podcast today. Thank you so much for inviting me. John Dowdy: Well, you're very welcome. It's great to have you. I believe I came across your comment on one of our Facebook ads, and I said to myself, "Oh, okay, I've got to get Arlene on this call," because, according to what you wrote, you are having some serious challenges with your 12-year-old. So let's first of all talk about this mare. What things were you dealing with prior to coming across the Equinety? So let's give a little background on her. Arlene Bara: Okay, John. Sure. I have a 12-year-old mare here. She's a registered solid paint roan. Beautiful little mare, and I've had her for 11 years. Within the last three years, she developed a cough, and, not being too alarmed, I didn't think too much about it, but then it got progressively worse. So, of course, I called the vet. Over the three-year period here, now I've had three different vets that I have consulted with. One said she has COPD. One says that she has allergies, which I started a series of serums for. She has so many different allergies that the serums just didn't seem to want to work. She had been tested positive for Lyme disease. We live in the mountains here, in the Poconos, and the ticks up here are pretty bad. So I guess it's inevitable, at some point. But she did test positive for Lyme, and I know that Lyme disease is one of those hidden sicknesses that can pop up in your immune system at any time and just do battle. John Dowdy: Sure. Arlene Bara: So she did come down with some pneumonia. She was treated for the pneumonia but, unfortunately, wasn't healed from it, and she carried that sickness for a couple months until, finally, the third vet that I had came and kind of knocked that out of her. But when I saw your ad, my mare was still coughing and very lackluster. She had lost a lot of weight. Her breathing was labored, and I just was feeling very heavy-hearted. Your ad popped up as I was on Facebook, and I was reading it. I saw some of the comments, and I'm like, "Huh, that's interesting. I think that looks like maybe it's worth a try." John Dowdy: Sure. Arlene Bara: So I got it, and it came at a good time, because she was suffering again with some inflammation in her legs. It was so bad that I had a hard time getting her to come out of her stall. That's how bad it was. I rubbed her down, and I put liniment on her and wrapped her up. I started her on this Equinety, and I'll tell you what. After three days, that inflammation disappeared, and it hasn't come back. She's been on this Equinety now for, what we did we say, two months? John Dowdy: Yeah, two months. But just backing up just a little bit here, so everything's kind of hunky dory, business as usual every day. But she developed a cough. Then she tested positive for Lyme. Then she had pneumonia, and her allergy panel was everything allergic that you can think of. Arlene Bara: Yep. John Dowdy: It all just seemed to kind of hit over ... What kind of a timeframe was this? Arlene Bara: Well, this has gone now, I want to say, starting on the third year. John Dowdy: Third year, okay. So you were doing the injections with the allergy serum for a year and a half. Did you see much of a difference with that at all?

Duration:00:14:39

041 – Julie Klouda – Easy Keeper – Picky Eater – Mystery Lameness – Chronic Soreness – VERY Skeptical

12/11/2019
041 - Julie Klouda – Easy Keeper – Picky Eater - Mystery Lameness – Chronic Soreness – VERY Skeptical John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're going to swing up into Colorado this week and speak with Julie Klouda. Julie, welcome to the Equinety podcast. Julie Klouda: Thank you. John Dowdy: Great to have you on and we're excited because you, what was interesting, you had commented on one of our Facebook posts and you had mentioned that you had been in the pet nutrition industry for 20 years and you had an amazing experience with your horse. Let's talk a little bit about your background in pet nutrition, although it's not so much on the equine side but dogs and cats, but you're up to speed on nutrition. So let's talk a little bit about that, your experience there. Julie Klouda: Great, thank you. I actually started years ago in the rescue world, as many of us do and I had gotten into nutrition for them because in rescue you get so many who are either emaciated, they've got illnesses, diseases and I just wanted to help find better ways that were more natural, in helping them heal. And so I started my own company of delivering pet food and going to seminars to learn about how their body can heal from the inside out to provide pet optimum health. And from there I had that business for about five or six years, sold it and became a representative for a pet food distribution company. And then shortly after that I dabbled in becoming a manufacturer rep for, actually all the way up until about a month ago, so that was probably a good 10 plus years of visiting stores and teaching them about proper nutrition supplements and things like that. And now I'm just taking a break and spending some time with some family while I decide what the next area is in the pet world for me. John Dowdy: Sure. That's great. Now you have a horse that you've had for a couple of years and tell us about this eight year old Peruvian. Julie Klouda: Rose is great, like you mentioned, she's an eight year old Peruvian girl. I got her from a friend in California almost two years ago actually. And she's mostly trail, we do a little bit of show. And I would say it was earlier this year, probably around February, she had a right front leg issue where she was not stepping out nicely. So we tried multiple different things. We did some rehab, acupuncture, chiropractic. And then we healed from that and then in May we had a fall and ever since that particular fall, her front legs, just every day they were very sore and sometimes it was hard for her to get up or even to walk and and at eight years old, that's a really young age for them to have that type of daily soreness. And my heart just broke every time I'd go there and it would take sometimes an hour and a half just before she could actually walk around without looking painful. So I did some research, added in some additional joint care supplements, some CBD, plus her regular stuff that she had been on, which was either Mare Magic or Via-Calm in her oils and things. And we continued the chiropractic care and the acupuncture. John Dowdy: Yeah. And what was your vet telling you, were they able to find anything specific going on or what was their advice? Julie Klouda: We could not find anything specific, which was so frustrating about all of it, is that everything that we would do, nobody could pinpoint why this was happening other than maybe she has a little bit of arthritis or something after this particular fall, which I guess can happen, even if they don't break anything, they can get that early on. And even though testings and things like that, nothing showed that there was actually a particular problem with her. So we headed towards, well go ahead and ride her because there doesn't show anything wrong,

Duration:00:19:00

040 – Lauri Oliphant – Weight Loss – white line, thrush, grew frog, stronger hoof, new sole depth

12/4/2019
Lauri Oliphant - Weight Loss - white line, thrush, grew frog, stronger hoof, new sole depth John Dowdy: Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety Podcast. We're going to swing up into Pennsylvania and speak with Laurie Oliphant. She's got a 21 year-old that's got some seedy toe, white line thrush, some other issues going on. Without further ado, Laurie, welcome to the Equinety Podcast. Laurie Oliphant: Hi, glad to be here. John Dowdy: Great. We're excited to have you. So let's jump right into this. You've got a 21 year-old that you've had since she was eight, give us a little bit of history. What was going on? I know you told me that she had been bred a few times, but tell me some of the issues that were kind of going on with her and what you were trying to help her with. Laurie Oliphant: Her feet was the big issue. She had foundered when she was five. I've had her since she was eight months old and it was a stone bruise that caused the issue. We had a fantastic blacksmith that for six months, we worked and worked and worked and worked. Everybody kept telling me, "Oh, you ought to put her down. You ought to put her down." I said, "Nope." I said, "There's life in this horse and she wants to live." Laurie Oliphant: We got her feet fixed and she was doing really good, watched her diet and finally got around to breeding her. She had her first foal, no issues. Weight was easy to get back up on her with no problem, then four years later went to go breed her again, and her weight just plummeted and I've had a hard time since then. She's now 21, keeping weight on her, keeping her feet sound. Tried other products, faithfully, that other people swore by. They worked for a while and then they just quit working, no matter what I did, and blacksmith issues, so it was a hard time keeping a good blacksmith. The last time she'd had her baby, we'd fought with her feet. I found a good blacksmith that helped me out, but we were still having issues and I tried different products that would supposedly help. Added stuff to her feed to try to help her feet out. They'd help for a while and then nothing, we were back to square one again. Laurie Oliphant: This last time she was losing weight and I was trying to get her to gain some weight. Changed her feed around and got her teeth floated. She'd been wormed, got her teeth floated and she still wasn't picking up the weight the way she should. Shoulders were sinking in, muscles around her, [inaudible 00:02:40] were sinking in. Top line was starting to show out [inaudible 00:02:47] found this Spirit medicine. This is not doable, this is not you. Read up on your product, picked out other aspects of your product, read some testimonials, heard some testimonials and so what do I have to lose, except my one year-old best buddy? John Dowdy: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Laurie Oliphant: I gotta try. So I started that. She'd had her teeth done a week before we got the product, did more of a diet change according to her dentist to help her out. Tried all kinds of products that usually worked short term then just would quit. She was having [inaudible 00:03:22] I was battling with [inaudible 00:03:24] oxy thing, soaking her feet. I'm doing everything and I just read about your products, went and read the testimonials and all that jazz and I wanted to look up what these amino acids would actually do and how they correlated [inaudible 00:03:47] University library, but I was reading there and I said, "what do I have to do lose"? So I ordered it up. Four weeks in, my blacksmith was dumbfounded. He couldn't believe the growth in a few weeks and I was tickled pink. Unfortunately, dumb me didn't take a picture before and after because I was busy trying to get some other stuff done? John Dowdy: Yeah, well you know what we hear a lot people say, "Oh my gosh,

Duration:00:16:30