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| How do you exercise your bleeders in the winter? I can't afford to haul somewhere multiple times a week once that icy stuff hits us in NW PA. I need to step up my exercise program with him and have a general idea what needs done due to the threads on here 
With more work in the winter, due you do any body clipping for your horse? He'll have a blanket anyways because he makes a really sad face when it gets cold haha
My vet prescribed lasix for my gelding. She commented his upper respiratory seemed clean, but she wasn't confident since it was 23 hours post run. While watching the scope, he had what appeared to be rashes down his trachea. Some spots bright red, some paler red, and some the normal light pink color. She believes he's a bleeder with the single coughs after the sprints and randomly after a run and is letting me test him on it. Here's to learning more new things! | |
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Location: Illinois | I generally take the winters off, but I have kept my bleeder legged up a couple of winters in the past. I don't really change much, but I do give him a little longer rest breaks. So if I'm trotting and go back to walking to let him catch his breath I might give him an extra minute or two. Once he's not huffing & puffing for a solid couple minutes I go back to a faster pace. With bleeders you have to keep them more conditioned & fit than non bleeders. If I condition mine enough during the year he doesn't bleed, even without lasix. But it's very time consuming and often have to ride for 1.5-2 hours 5x a week. The more fit you can get your horse before winter the better you'll be. They're able to maintain without having to work quite as hard. I recommend EquiPulmin as well, I was able to take mine off of lasix without him bleeding this year because I added that. I give 60cc before a workout and then days I run I do 60cc in the morning and another 60cc about half an hour before I get on to run. | |
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| JLazyT_perf_horses - 2018-10-04 2:22 PM
I generally take the winters off, but I have kept my bleeder legged up a couple of winters in the past. I don't really change much, but I do give him a little longer rest breaks. So if I'm trotting and go back to walking to let him catch his breath I might give him an extra minute or two. Once he's not huffing & puffing for a solid couple minutes I go back to a faster pace. With bleeders you have to keep them more conditioned & fit than non bleeders. If I condition mine enough during the year he doesn't bleed, even without lasix. But it's very time consuming and often have to ride for 1.5-2 hours 5x a week. The more fit you can get your horse before winter the better you'll be. They're able to maintain without having to work quite as hard. I recommend EquiPulmin as well, I was able to take mine off of lasix without him bleeding this year because I added that. I give 60cc before a workout and then days I run I do 60cc in the morning and another 60cc about half an hour before I get on to run.
That makes sense thank you. I was reading about that and that's why the hamster wheel in my head is spinning. Its been raining quite a bit here, but after his body work session tomorrow, we're both going to exercise boot camp. I'll look into that too! Thank you | |
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Winter Workouts For A Bleeder