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Location: Bixby, Ok | As far as vaccination there is some thought that pnumabort k may have some cross protectivity and I have always given my horses even geldings amd riding mares this vaccine as well. I give 3 per year at equal intervals. It may not work but sure not gonna hurt. Worth it to me. |
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Location: Here | BR-DVM - 2014-05-04 9:13 PM As far as vaccination there is some thought that pnumabort k may have some cross protectivity and I have always given my horses even geldings amd riding mares this vaccine as well. I give 3 per year at equal intervals. It may not work but sure not gonna hurt. Worth it to me.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | I was going to go, right up until 2 days before. It was going to haul just one horse, warm up outside, then do a quick in-and-out for poles and barrels. Then I heard about the horse in Wisconsin that was euthanized just 6 days earlier, along with a few other tidbits, and decided not to go.
I probably would have gotten away with it, as the odds are still low.....just not low enough for me, plus it would be hypocritical of me to be so outspoken about hunkering down, and then turn around and take a gamble. It's not the end of the world. 99% of us don't make a dime barrel racing anyway.....not when you take everything into account...but actually what it does is prolong this crap for those who DO actually make money barrel racing or selling barrel horses, when you really think about it. |
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| I never let my horses drink out of community water and don't even like to them graze while at overnight shows, they just get long walks to get out of their stalls. Something that I have not thought about till my vet told me is using the common water hose. He said dropping the nozzle in your bucket will spread the germs from every other bucket that hose has been in. I carry my own water to day shows but now I will be using my own hose and taking it with me every time I water. Hope the threat gets under control and yall can get back on the road soon. |
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Location: Small Town Iowa | I usually haul my own water to places that I go, and this year I have a portable pen that instead of getting stalls at most of the shows, I can just keep the horses at the trailer in a fence. I was going to do it last year to save money at some places, but with the risk of EHV being higher than normal this year, I have it packed in the trailer if or when I can start going again. And of course I don't share buckets, tack and all that jazz. I figured if I can lower the risk where I can I will sure try. And I know that at all the shows I go to I have no choice but to get stalls, but I may be a little pickier about going to those places. Who knows. It seems like most people on here are playing it safe, which I am so glad to hear.  |
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Location: Kansas | rodeomom3 - 2014-05-05 7:29 AM I never let my horses drink out of community water and don't even like to them graze while at overnight shows, they just get long walks to get out of their stalls. Something that I have not thought about till my vet told me is using the common water hose. He said dropping the nozzle in your bucket will spread the germs from every other bucket that hose has been in. I carry my own water to day shows but now I will be using my own hose and taking it with me every time I water. Hope the threat gets under control and yall can get back on the road soon.
I agree about the hose - I never let the hose touch my buckets or water. I do haul my own water but in the summertime with three horses, 10-12 gallons doesn't last very long. I always park with water in mind because I hate lugging those jugs back & forth, though they're better than carrying buckets and wearing half the water on my leg LOL. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | We made a call to the SD State Vet today. It was verified that the Brown Co, SD horse has the same strain of EHV1 as the MN horse. Respiratory, non-neuro but yet neuro in the way its affecting horses. So many people are continuing to haul and saying...."Its JUST respiratory, there's nothing to worry about". Really? Its still killing horses. The vet said that SD has different laws than MN for instance and they can't shut down the barns for this so in reality these girls that board at the infected barn can still haul. I pray to God that if they try to get a vet to give them a health paper that the vet refuses them for 30 days. I quarantined myself for 30 days from exposure at BRF which is up next Monday. As horse owners we have to study this ourselves and make up our own minds whether to take the chance with our animals who most are more like children to us than horses. I'm ashamed to see how many of my friends have continued to haul and I get eye rolls and snide comments because I'm being overly cautious. Maybe so, but seeing my horses laying out in the green grass today with the sun shining on them, I know I'm making the right decision.
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Location: South Dakota | CYA Ranch - 2014-05-05 9:16 PM We made a call to the SD State Vet today. It was verified that the Brown Co, SD horse has the same strain of EHV1 as the MN horse. Respiratory, non-neuro but yet neuro in the way its affecting horses. So many people are continuing to haul and saying...."Its JUST respiratory, there's nothing to worry about". Really? Its still killing horses. The vet said that SD has different laws than MN for instance and they can't shut down the barns for this so in reality these girls that board at the infected barn can still haul. I pray to God that if they try to get a vet to give them a health paper that the vet refuses them for 30 days. I quaranteened (spelling) myself for 30 days from exposure at BRF which is up next Monday. As horse owners we have to study this ourselves and make up our own minds whether to take the chance with our animals who most are more like children to us than horses. I'm ashamed to see how many of my friends have continued to haul and I get eye rolls and snide comments because I'm being overly cautious. Maybe so, but seeing my horses laying out in the green grass today with the sun shining on them, I know I'm making the right decision.
The Spring Fling in Huron is cancelled...the way things are right now...it needed to be cancelled/postponed.. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | ridejg - 2014-05-05 9:59 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-05-05 9:16 PM We made a call to the SD State Vet today. It was verified that the Brown Co, SD horse has the same strain of EHV1 as the MN horse. Respiratory, non-neuro but yet neuro in the way its affecting horses. So many people are continuing to haul and saying...."Its JUST respiratory, there's nothing to worry about". Really? Its still killing horses. The vet said that SD has different laws than MN for instance and they can't shut down the barns for this so in reality these girls that board at the infected barn can still haul. I pray to God that if they try to get a vet to give them a health paper that the vet refuses them for 30 days. I quaranteened (spelling) myself for 30 days from exposure at BRF which is up next Monday. As horse owners we have to study this ourselves and make up our own minds whether to take the chance with our animals who most are more like children to us than horses. I'm ashamed to see how many of my friends have continued to haul and I get eye rolls and snide comments because I'm being overly cautious. Maybe so, but seeing my horses laying out in the green grass today with the sun shining on them, I know I'm making the right decision.
The Spring Fling in Huron is cancelled...the way things are right now...it needed to be cancelled/postponed..
I just got that message too. Thank the Lord people are coming to their senses. |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | CYA Ranch - 2014-05-05 9:16 PM We made a call to the SD State Vet today. It was verified that the Brown Co, SD horse has the same strain of EHV1 as the MN horse. Respiratory, non-neuro but yet neuro in the way its affecting horses. So many people are continuing to haul and saying...."Its JUST respiratory, there's nothing to worry about". Really? Its still killing horses. The vet said that SD has different laws than MN for instance and they can't shut down the barns for this so in reality these girls that board at the infected barn can still haul. I pray to God that if they try to get a vet to give them a health paper that the vet refuses them for 30 days. I quaranteened (spelling) myself for 30 days from exposure at BRF which is up next Monday. As horse owners we have to study this ourselves and make up our own minds whether to take the chance with our animals who most are more like children to us than horses. I'm ashamed to see how many of my friends have continued to haul and I get eye rolls and snide comments because I'm being overly cautious. Maybe so, but seeing my horses laying out in the green grass today with the sun shining on them, I know I'm making the right decision.
I get tired of hearing "it's just respiratory". It can literally take them MONTHS to get over the coughing and irritation caused by the respiratory version of EHV. Working at the vet I've seen some scoped that had "blisters" in their throat that they can develop- and that nagging cough hangs on seemingly forever. Even "just the respiratory" version can take a horse out of training for months. |
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Location: north dakota | I seen on Facebook that they still had the Paul Humphrey clinic in Aberdeen. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | rockinas - 2014-05-05 10:04 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-05-05 9:16 PM We made a call to the SD State Vet today. It was verified that the Brown Co, SD horse has the same strain of EHV1 as the MN horse. Respiratory, non-neuro but yet neuro in the way its affecting horses. So many people are continuing to haul and saying...."Its JUST respiratory, there's nothing to worry about". Really? Its still killing horses. The vet said that SD has different laws than MN for instance and they can't shut down the barns for this so in reality these girls that board at the infected barn can still haul. I pray to God that if they try to get a vet to give them a health paper that the vet refuses them for 30 days. I quaranteened (spelling) myself for 30 days from exposure at BRF which is up next Monday. As horse owners we have to study this ourselves and make up our own minds whether to take the chance with our animals who most are more like children to us than horses. I'm ashamed to see how many of my friends have continued to haul and I get eye rolls and snide comments because I'm being overly cautious. Maybe so, but seeing my horses laying out in the green grass today with the sun shining on them, I know I'm making the right decision.
I get tired of hearing "it's just respiratory". It can literally take them MONTHS to get over the coughing and irritation caused by the respiratory version of EHV. Working at the vet I've seen some scoped that had "blisters" in their throat that they can develop- and that nagging cough hangs on seemingly forever. Even "just the respiratory" version can take a horse out of training for months.
I've lost a lot of respect for some people around here. I'm sick of how many girls ran in Huron yesterday. I took a nice leasurely ride on Bugs today and a really fast and intense ride on Crackhead.  Sure did it enjoy it all though. We'll be ready whenever this crap clears up. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I also know that most of those girls at that clinic at the infected barn will be signing up for our NBHA Finals in 2 weeks. I hope to hell the vets are smart enough NOT to give them a health certificate to get into Finals. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | RockinAS made me think. I've had a lot of coughing with several of my horses almost all winter. I figured it was the usual cough from burying their faces in round bales but I've actually put a couple away after riding for short times because they just didn't feel right. Nothing real specific or earth shattering, just kinda dead and heavy feeling. I always vaccinate, but only once a year, with a Rhino boost in the fall.
Once I was riding a gritty little mare and she just seemed unusually sluggish, so I put her away. She had been coughing quite a bit too. The next day she looked and felt fine. Another stout gelding of mine acted very similar, and when I went to put him away he was drenched and was fasciculating for a few minutes. Both horses looked fine the next day, but I have to wonder. Maybe my antennae are just on alert. It just seems like this has been a tough winter. I have to wonder if there isn't more to this than meets the eye. Maybe it's an unusual situation where all the conditions have been just right for the emergence of this EHV-1. Still, I can't rationalize this cavalier attitude so many seem to be displaying. Damm cooties.
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Location: So. California | CYA Ranch - 2014-05-05 8:29 PM I also know that most of those girls at that clinic at the infected barn will be signing up for our NBHA Finals in 2 weeks. I hope to hell the vets are smart enough NOT to give them a health certificate to get into Finals.
There is a clinic at the barn where an infected horse is? That barn should be under quarantine. And the state vets haven't done that? Barn owner hasn't quarantined themselves? WOW...  |
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| CYA Ranch - 2014-05-05 9:16 PM
We made a call to the SD State Vet today. It was verified that the Brown Co, SD horse has the same strain of EHV1 as the MN horse. Respiratory, non-neuro but yet neuro in the way its affecting horses. So many people are continuing to haul and saying...."Its JUST respiratory, there's nothing to worry about". Really? Its still killing horses. The vet said that SD has different laws than MN for instance and they can't shut down the barns for this so in reality these girls that board at the infected barn can still haul. I pray to God that if they try to get a vet to give them a health paper that the vet refuses them for 30 days. I quaranteened (spelling) myself for 30 days from exposure at BRF which is up next Monday. As horse owners we have to study this ourselves and make up our own minds whether to take the chance with our animals who most are more like children to us than horses. I'm ashamed to see how many of my friends have continued to haul and I get eye rolls and snide comments because I'm being overly cautious. Maybe so, but seeing my horses laying out in the green grass today with the sun shining on them, I know I'm making the right decision.
From my understanding, MN cannot shut down anything either. Our "shutdown" was voluntary. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Some of this stuff is just crazy. I've heard stories of some reckless people. Some scenarios I have heard just leave me shaking my head. Normally, when it comes to sickness or injuries or lameness, it's none of my business. In this case, it's everyone's business, in my opinion. Next thing you know people will be traveling to Saudi Arabia just to prove they probably won't get infected by the MERS virus, or maybe a veteranarian hauling to shows left and right like there's no tomorrow, and then keeping his horse at his clinic. |
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| The clinic was still held but it was only for people who HAD/STALLED horses already at the barn. Any horses that were going to be hauled in for the clinic were told about the EHV-1 and told not to come. A follow up clinic may be held at a later date for all the people that had horses outside of the barn that were unable to come for the "in barn horse clinic" The barn also is not letting new horses in or current horses leave, so basically they are doing a voluntary quarantine.
Before people start throwing out rumors they should get all the FACTS not just spread more rumors, it can really hurt someones business and reputation. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | stayceem - 2014-05-05 11:27 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-05-05 9:16 PM We made a call to the SD State Vet today. It was verified that the Brown Co, SD horse has the same strain of EHV1 as the MN horse. Respiratory, non-neuro but yet neuro in the way its affecting horses. So many people are continuing to haul and saying...."Its JUST respiratory, there's nothing to worry about". Really? Its still killing horses. The vet said that SD has different laws than MN for instance and they can't shut down the barns for this so in reality these girls that board at the infected barn can still haul. I pray to God that if they try to get a vet to give them a health paper that the vet refuses them for 30 days. I quarantined myself for 30 days from exposure at BRF which is up next Monday. As horse owners we have to study this ourselves and make up our own minds whether to take the chance with our animals who most are more like children to us than horses. I'm ashamed to see how many of my friends have continued to haul and I get eye rolls and snide comments because I'm being overly cautious. Maybe so, but seeing my horses laying out in the green grass today with the sun shining on them, I know I'm making the right decision.
From my understanding, MN cannot shut down anything either. Our "shutdown" was voluntary.
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | SDcowgirl - 2014-05-06 2:17 AM The clinic was still held but it was only for people who HAD/STALLED horses already at the barn. Any horses that were going to be hauled in for the clinic were told about the EHV-1 and told not to come. A follow up clinic may be held at a later date for all the people that had horses outside of the barn that were unable to come for the "in barn horse clinic" The barn also is not letting new horses in or current horses leave, so basically they are doing a voluntary quarantine.
Before people start throwing out rumors they should get all the FACTS not just spread more rumors, it can really hurt someones business and reputation.
No one is spreading rumors Kylee. I've mentioned many times to different people that they went on with the clinic for those that were already exposed. The only way this is going to get stopped though is if people stay home. Plain and simple. The reputation of the barn is up to the barn owners IMO. |
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