#7 TRIM: What Nutrient Deficiencies can Cause to a Foal!
Channel: CAD'ORS BAREFOOT
Date: 2020-05-10

Hi!

Welcome to this special video. My wish here is to bring more awareness about what nutrient deficiencies during gestation & growth can cause to the growing living being.This is the case of Indy, a lovely 2yo mare that was bred for meat. She is a mix of French Draft (Comtois) & QH.  

She was relatively healthy when the owner got her, but then she went into really bad colic episodes. The owner then found out that it was due to piroplasmosis (tick disease). Then, in just a few months, her condition deteriorated dramatically, making her the vet clinic's favourite patient... It turns out that she has a chronic intestine inflammatory disease (similar to Crohn for human beings).

She has been under corticoids treatment since this winter. Besides that, she developed a bad case of mud fever, leading to important lymphangitis in her back legs.

Most recently, she showed this "clonking" of her left hind pastern. Chiro practitioners and I believe this condition is due to her extreme belly tension, affecting her back legs.
The good news is that the trim ended up helping her and stopped the "clonking".

Bad news is that she got lice, but worse, she started uveitis! Which should be impossible under corticoids drugs, according to the vets.

She is at the clinic right now and her prognosis was very dire. Treatment has been implemented and she seems to respond well.

So let's all send her our good vibes to help her through this nightmare (as well as her owner)!

Why can we theorise all these troubles come from nutrient deficiencies? Because this breeding farm works with an association to help save some of the foals, and all have the most extravagant vet diagnostics, even diseases unknown to vets!
They are not cared for in any way during their whole life there, nor are the brood mares. They all live in a swamp with very poor and restricted diet.

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Ciao! I'm Jade, equine podiatrist.

Besides hoof care, I have the project & dream to have a domestic horse as fulfilled and balanced as a wild one. 
Because horse's well-being is so much more than just his feed, pasture or feet.
It a synergy of all this & us together!

Grazie !

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