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Location: Pacific Northwest | My mare is relatively low maintenance. 17 years old, no injections. Can be ulcer prone, but on her current feed regime of beet pulp & alfalfa pellets and SmartGut Ultra they stay away. Doesn't wear shoes.
However, if I want her to truly perform at her best, she needs a little extra. She has an old injury in her neck that causes soreness. I do daily massages and stretches with her, and I get her worked on pretty regularly if I'm running her. I put her BOT and PHT products on her regularly, and if we have been warming up on crappy ground I will pack her feet with Magic Cushion. |
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| As others have said, depends what you consider maintenance. To me teeth, normal shoes or trims, and worming are basic care, not maintenance. All of my heard, from prospects to pro horses only see a vet for coggins and health papers (for travel purposes). I don't inject anything, they don't get ulcers, don't use pre-race things, ect. They are however on the Simply Equine program which creates a custom herbal blend for that specific horse's needs. I consider them low maintenance, because they have all been on the program long enough we are just doing prevention and it is very minimal. |
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Location: Fort Bragg North Carolina | I have |
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| at what level are these horses competing and how many runs a month |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Had two...but I'm not sure that they were low or no maintenance or I was just dumb enough to not realize they needed more. My little HS rodeo mare I trimmed myself until I got a job my Junior year in HS and had her shod, fronts only. She lived to be 33. Other than feed, feet, teeth and vaccines, and those I think I started only again, when I got a job in HS, she would have been 17 at the time as was I. Then my bay mare, and I'm 99% sure she was just too tough to say Ouch. She fractured her hock her 12 year old year, the two patty shaped bones in the left hock. Then at 22 she slapped at the neighbors horse thru hogwire, 170+ stitches later she looked like a patchwork quilt on her right front, back running 2 months later. She was also Impressive bred, found out she was N/H , never fed her a special diet, only found out that she was N/H when she was 18. I was thinking of breeding her, someone mentioned HYPP to me. Took her off the breeding program to say the least but figured we had gotten that far with not special diet, good clean hay and lots of riding, wasnt' going to change anything then. She never did have an issue. The only maintenance required was the egg bar shoes while she recovered from the fractured hock, and the casting material while the degloved leg healed.
The 3 I have now have taught me a lot about what my others didn't get... |
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Location: North Dakota | Maybe one day I will have one of those 'no maintenance' horses. Both of mine have had their fair share of issues over the years. |
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Location: North of where I want to be | My 17 yr old is fairly low maint. no injections, no therapy...chiro once or twice a year. He gets the AE Detox on his feed and all the pasture time he can stand.....he stays pretty happy......BUT as life would have it I just bought an ulcer riddled, hi anxiety mess of a horse that has to have corrective showing do to an old injury and is likely going to make me broke trying to fix his issues. |
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Location: PA | SmokinGirlie - 2017-02-27 2:03 PM My 25 year old. He just got Legend for the first time last year, he's been running since he was 6 with me and the past few years I handed him over to cousins to lightly compete. This will be the first year he isn't hauled consistently, but only for my leadliner <3. Obviously he has been on joint supplements etc., as a preventative but he's never been injected or lame.
They don't make them like him anymore!
That's how Willie is. He's 22 this year. Never been injected, never been lame, no joint supplements, etc. Pretty much hay, grain and rode....and im just now starting to leg him back up for this years season. |
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Location: Texas | Neither of my mares have needed anything aside from the normal... floating, trimming, vaccines, occasional chiro. I keep them in shape and they're sound and happy. |
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Location: Idaho | Nateracer - 2017-02-28 10:54 AM
Majorly depends on what you call maintenance.
Agreed.
Mine right now gets all the regular: Teeth floated, chiropractor when he needs it, feet done every 8 weeks, regularly dewormed and is due for his spring shots. I do feed him some grain and also 4 oz of Formula 1 Noni blue label, he is going on 6 this year and he doesn't have any soundness issues at this time. But the Noni helps keep his head on straight, joints lubricated and his body conditioned while he's on a grass pasture.
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Location: North Dakota | Mzbradford - 2017-02-27 12:51 PM Hey guys and girls. Just for fun- how many of you have a horse that has no maintenance?
I do not understand the question.
(I thought horses like that were unicorns!!)
Maybe I just have bad luck.....
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Location: North Dakota -> Colorado | r_beau - 2017-02-28 10:55 AM Mzbradford - 2017-02-27 12:51 PM Hey guys and girls. Just for fun- how many of you have a horse that has no maintenance? I do not understand the question.
(I thought horses like that were unicorns!!)
Maybe I just have bad luck.....
HAHA! I agree, I have yet to find one that when hauling consistently that didn't need some form of maintenence (Chiro, Accupuncture, Massage, Injections, or something of the like) to keep them feeling as good as always. I just expect it, they are an athlete. All the professional human athletes have maintenence done on them, why wouldnt the equine athlete? |
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Location: SW MO | I think maybe I have just ran into bad luck too. Like I stated above, I have yet to have one that did not need some injection. So I was curious if that really is out there. Now, all I have to do is find one  |
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Location: Armuchee, GA, NW section of Ga | Out of 6, three are on some type of maintenance for different issues.
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Location: California | I have a pony the doesn't require maintenance, that's about it. Lol. Like seriously if he "thinks" about food he gains 10 lbs! My coming 5yrs old has decided to join his mother in running up my vet bills and requiring maintenance, which is really just making sure he is on a very simple feed program with THE MM and add ins to that mix to keep his stomach happy. My mare on the other hand is currently a pasture puff because of her issues (she is perfectly happy with her life of course). |
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Location: Upstate New York | Both my horse's that I am currently running are maintenance free. One is 16 and laid back, the other is 13 and a tad high strung. Both get run every weekend from one day to 3 day runs with trail riding during the week. Hay, grain, vaccinations, worming and chiro once or twice a year. That's it. Never sick, never lame. Guess I've been lucky all these years. |
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| Not me!! I have two confirmed with pssm and one suspected waiting for test results. Mine are just for looking at in the pasture and feeding lots of expensive supplements. One is somewhat rideable, but coming back from an SI injury so its just been 20 minute rides at a walk and some trotting and dealing with stomach ulcers as well. The other two are pasture pets. Only horse on the farm right now that doesn't require maintenance is my husbands big ol appy draft mix. |
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| We have one that is 21 years old that we have owned since he was 6. He has never had a joint injection of any sort. Never been on any supplements either. We laughed once when the chiro looked at him and said "This horse doesn't need any work at all." He is one in a million! Of course, I have plenty others that make up for his lack of vet bills.....UGH! haha :) |
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