Beneath its beautiful exterior, your horse is a biological marvel, a living kinetic sculpture that evolved to do one thing: run away. The stresses of carrying a rider, performing complex maneuvers, and even enduring routine veterinary care can disrupt its physiological balance. Horse chiropractors treat acute injuries as well as chronic challenges facing the domestic horse.
My horse was starving. I had a half-ton of hay in the shed, but he wouldn’t eat it, even though it was the same hay he had eaten all season. Eleven days prior he’d had his teeth floated and though the dental work was minimal, Cody had been difficult to sedate, requiring multiple injections. As the shots slowly took effect, my gelding struggled and gnashed his teeth, rattling the large metal speculum that was holding his jaw open. It was stressful to watch, but I put my faith—and my beloved horse’s wellbeing—in the hands of the friendly vet from the area’s premier equine hospital. Their farm calls and procedures were on the expensive side, but I’d been traveling and I’d let Cody’s dental schedule—and his teeth—go a little long and I wanted to do right by him.
Now it was a week and a half later and Cody had dropped close to 400 pounds; I couldn’t get him to eat. I soaked his hay and bought the alfalfa cubes I supplement with in winter, offering them dry, softened, or soaked. All of it would be there at the next feeding, untouched. I tried drizzling the cubes with molasses and topping them with shredded carrots in a plating worthy of Masterchef. He didn’t eat them. Cody’s ribs were rising and his flanks were sinking more every day.
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