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Location: Beggs, OK | For Orogin you send the blood to their lab in Florida. They send your vet the results and you order the drugs from them. They send the drugs to your vet and the vet sends them to you. |
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| rachellyn80 - 2014-12-31 3:03 PM
For Orogin you send the blood to their lab in Florida. They send your vet the results and you order the drugs from them. They send the drugs to your vet and the vet sends them to you.
Oh, OK they provide the drug at no cost to you. That is much better. From what I read, the horse owner had to pay for testing and the drug. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | That may explain why my vet can never find it. They are out of the office today so I suspect it is not on the way yet :( I'll call Friday and hope they can get it here quick from Pathogenes. I did have the blood test done through them and understand they keep the results. Thank you
And yes we have a gazillion barn cats peeing and crapping in the old hay and straw that is around here. I have since boarded up one room so they can't get to the hay so easy and we tarp any small square bales kept inside. I also keep my grains in a wooden bin or in tin garbage cans. This horse may have had some of this from coming from OR as a yearling. I have had him 2yrs and all this came about after a major cut he got on his foot. Maybe that brought it all on, the stress etc. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | streakysox - 2014-12-31 3:17 PM rachellyn80 - 2014-12-31 3:03 PM For Orogin you send the blood to their lab in Florida. They send your vet the results and you order the drugs from them. They send the drugs to your vet and the vet sends them to you. Oh, OK they provide the drug at no cost to you. That is much better. From what I read, the horse owner had to pay for testing and the drug.
The test is $60 and Orogin is $200. |
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| wyoming barrel racer - 2014-12-31 4:24 PM
That may explain why my vet can never find it. They are out of the office today so I suspect it is not on the way yet :( I'll call Friday and hope they can get it here quick from Pathogenes. I did have the blood test done through them and understand they keep the results. Thank you
And yes we have a gazillion barn cats peeing and crapping in the old hay and straw that is around here. I have since boarded up one room so they can't get to the hay so easy and we tarp any small square bales kept inside. I also keep my grains in a wooden bin or in tin garbage cans. This horse may have had some of this from coming from OR as a yearling. I have had him 2yrs and all this came about after a major cut he got on his foot. Maybe that brought it all on, the stress etc.
In 1992 when my horse was diagnosed with EPM, there were quite a few what I call city horses that died of EPM in the area around Dallas. I doubt that they have much of a possum problem. The only test that was avaolable was to post their brain after death. I think around1998 my trainer, a close friend and another girl had horses that had to be put down as a result of EPM. There was one thing they all had in common, they all fed the same feed. I have often wondered if my feed was the cause of my horse's. Like I said I have a supply of possums around her so I will never know. My paint horse had signs that I noticed and the third vet that I took him to actually listened to me. When my yearling started showing signs, I told that same vet and we discussed her systems. He went ahead and gave me Baycox and I treated her. She is great now. None of my horses have ever been tested. I can tell better than the vets can. The vet that I use now listens to me because he knows that I know my horses. The problem is that the symptoms vary so much from horse to horse. |
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Location: Golden Gulf Coast of Texas | streakysox - 2015-01-01 3:06 AM
wyoming barrel racer - 2014-12-31 4:24 PM
That may explain why my vet can never find it. They are out of the office today so I suspect it is not on the way yet :( I'll call Friday and hope they can get it here quick from Pathogenes. I did have the blood test done through them and understand they keep the results. Thank you
And yes we have a gazillion barn cats peeing and crapping in the old hay and straw that is around here. I have since boarded up one room so they can't get to the hay so easy and we tarp any small square bales kept inside. I also keep my grains in a wooden bin or in tin garbage cans. This horse may have had some of this from coming from OR as a yearling. I have had him 2yrs and all this came about after a major cut he got on his foot. Maybe that brought it all on, the stress etc.
In 1992 when my horse was diagnosed with EPM, there were quite a few what I call city horses that died of EPM in the area around Dallas. I doubt that they have much of a possum problem. The only test that was avaolable was to post their brain after death. I think around1998 my trainer, a close friend and another girl had horses that had to be put down as a result of EPM. There was one thing they all had in common, they all fed the same feed. I have often wondered if my feed was the cause of my horse's. Like I said I have a supply of possums around her so I will never know. My paint horse had signs that I noticed and the third vet that I took him to actually listened to me. When my yearling started showing signs, I told that same vet and we discussed her systems. He went ahead and gave me Baycox and I treated her. She is great now. None of my horses have ever been tested. I can tell better than the vets can. The vet that I use now listens to me because he knows that I know my horses. The problem is that the symptoms vary so much from horse to horse.
Any feed that is not heat treated can be contaminated before you ever purchase it. So it doesn't matter how you store it if it's already got the Protozoa in it. Pelleted feeds and steam rolled oats should be safe. |
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| Be sure they are on a good immune builder. I had a mare that had it. We did the herbal after she was treated and never had another issue. I kept her on immune builder and gave the worm detox every 60 days. Tube worm detox kept the protozoa from breaking the blood membrane barrier. |
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