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would love some help/advice on what to do with my complex OTTB please!

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okay im going to try and give out FULL details on the issue and the horse..
basic info.
the horse will be 6 in april She has been at the barn for a full year, she came from the kentucky equine humane society. she has been raced more than once and has won a few races.
She is a known biter and kicker- she also gets WORSE yes worse when you correct her.
yet she is a changed horse with a lead rope attached to her, and shes better with a saddle on her.
She is a one person horse and that is it. I am her one person. (she is a-lot better though from a year ago).
but here is what is going on recently.
we discovered she has ulcers and started to give her aleovera juice to soothe her stomach. She gets nervous that she grinds her teeth a lot. we dont have to get her floated she does it for us. They changed their feed from just reg sweet feed to a mixture of
beet pulp, rice bran, safechoice, alfalfa pellets, and diatamichious earth- my mare gets 2 scoops of that twice a day plus a scoop of sr feed. ( they are going to change it to something called wellsolve soon.
last week she coliced real bad. yesterday she was not colicing but her ulcers bothered her a lot. The owner gave her a shot of bantamine to just make her feel better..... I stayed at the barn last night and checked on her this morning... text the owner and let her know she had gut sounds ate her hay and drank her water but she still looked the same. I had the stablehand check on her as well... and I came by between jobs and she was fine.
she went and got her 3 things of gastrogard. I wonder if thats enough to knock it out? Should I get her a supplement like Smart Gut? and use that for a month or so after the GastroGard? I cant really change what they feed her.
The guy who is feeding her is only giving her a little bit now just while her stomach is healing... it would be nice I think to give her snaller meals during the day.
I do not OWN her, I lease her from some one... So I can only do so much. but please all opinions are welcome... and just a fact- If it was not for ME this horse would be dead.
she is also about 100 pounds underweight b/c of all of the above.
Sorry for the long post just wanted to make sure I have all the details down.
 
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#32 ·
I never said she was being one I asked can they.
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Boils down to the same issue - this is not your horse.

There is way too much - "I don't know I wasn't there". It is impossible for anyone to give remotely decent advice when we don't have the story straight.

If you are so worried about the horse, make an offer, buy it and then make the decisions for the horse.
 
#33 ·
The impression I am getting from this poster's posts on this horse is that while she is not the owner, only a leasee, she genuinely cares for this horse and is on this forum to try to get advice on things she can do..... or mention to the owner to do..... to try to help this horse out.

As for buying the horse, the poster gives the impression that while she would love to do so, at this time the horse is either NOT up for sale and/or circumstances do not allow this possibility. That Doesn't mean that she can just stop caring...or give up trying to better this horse's care and quality of life.

My advice to the OP is that foremost: this horse needs regular turnout time. She should mention this to the owner...

I have a 6 yr old OTTB also, and without regular and frequent turnout....he would go insane. Literally. It is unfair and cruel to confine ANY horse to its stall for such long periods of time....even more so for a young, sensitive, energetic, athletic horse like an OTTB....especially a 6 yr. old OTTB.

This cruel confinement is not the OP's fault....and she seems to understand on some level that this horse should have more turnout. She does what her time limitations allow....

Perhaps she should talk to the owner about the turnout situation and see what can possibly be done to allow this horse out of it's cage more often....

Unfortunately, her options are limited as to what she can personally do for this horse, but that doesn't stop her from caring. or asking for advice and ideas.....

We should all appreciate her concern for this horse.
 
#34 ·
We should all appreciate her concern for this horse.
Concern is one thing. Trying to get answers and advice when you have a small fraction of the information and then telling everyone they are wrong when they give you advice is different.

If the OP came out and said that she was simply concerned about a horse that is not hers and she has no control over but was wondering that would be different.
 
#35 ·
Well, that's true Alwaysbehind, but i am assuming that what she is doing on this forum is trying to gain some ideas and advice that she can put before the owner, hoping the owner will take some of the advice.....

Perhaps she has a good relationship with the owner and that the owner would consider some of the OPs suggestions.....

We can always hope.
 
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