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About Whiteline Disease
"I have never, in twenty-five years of treating lameness, seen abscesses clear up so quickly. Some of the things I have seen, in such a short time, I wouldn't have believed if someone just tried to tell me.”
Reuben Miller
Reuben is a member of an Amish community and trained as an Amish farrier, he has a long-standing reputation as a laminitis specialist in and outside the Amish community.
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KKashmeer's story
As told by Annie Maines:
In 1999, we purchased KKashmeer who was then almost 15 years old. His Sire was Khemosabi+++, he had the most wonderful personality, a kind eye, fantastic ground manners, a floating gait and a delight to just to be around. I had ridden him maybe twice for some half-hour rides in the arena, just at the walk and trot. He was simply wonderful. We were told that KKashmeer had been shown in Western Pleasure, Western Trail, Hunter and Dressage. A horse who was much better trained, evidently, than the new owners! We intended him to be a trail horse only, knocking about and brush busting in our local area. |
| We had visited the barn for two years off and on, where he was bred and owned all his life. The sellers had failed to mention any fetlock or leg problems when we purchased Kkashmeer, but when he was delivered to the barn where we were to board him, a 5 hour ride in a professional air-ride trailer, he was dead-lame. After a month of treatments by the local veterinarian, icing, nerve blocks, bute and light walking with stall confinement, egg bar shoes and special trimming by the farrier, he was not better. We were advised to take him to U. C. Davis for an ultrasound, where he was diagnosed with what the veterinarians said was an old injury - bone fragments in his right front fetlock joint. Surgery was not an option, according to the vets, and he would never be sound. They called him a very expensive “pasture ornament”, or in the alternative, they would put him down for us. He would never be sound enough to ride. Needless to say, we were heart-broken but decided to keep him as a family pet. |
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After another two months of rehabilitation which consisted of hand walking, more icing, more bute, more egg bar shoes, Kkashmeer was still limping. We had both the horses moved to our new property in Placerville (again, by a professional mover) and had to find a new farrier and veterinarian. That’s when things really turned around for Kkashmeer. When Wayne came to trim and shoe the horses, I discussed the findings of the vets at Davis, asking that he put Kkashmeer in egg bar shoes and telling him the prognosis for our beloved family member.
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Wayne told me that he thought he could get Kkashmeer sound again. He said his angles were too steep and that we should try him on E3Live FOR HORSES™. I was more than skeptical, after all, the veterinarians were specialists, they knew what was wrong with Kkashmeer and nothing could remove those bone fragments. But, we would try anything.
Within six weeks we saw an incredible difference in this horse.
Kkashmeer had always had thrush, his feet crumbling whenever they were cleaned. Now he was walking soundly and there was no sign of thrush. |
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Amazing! Wayne came again to trim Kkashmeer and he told me that I should try him out under saddle, beginning slowly and working my way up to an hour a day with farrier visits every six weeks.
Kkashmeer is now having his 20th birthday. In the past five years we have taken Kkashmeer on 5 hour trail rides and one ride was about 8 hours long. Not intentionally, but my daughter got lost on the trails around our property and had to find her way home! We have even taken him on weekend camping trips. He has never taken another lame step, thanks to Wayne and E3Live FOR HORSES™. |
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There was a time when I forgot to reorder and ran out of E3Live FOR HORSES™ and for four weeks, and the horses did without. I really did think that they would be okay. Maybe the change in environment and consistency of the ground they were on, maybe the feed, they would probably be just fine.
Within that short period of time, Kkashmeer began again to have problems with thrush, the insides of his feet just crumbling off every time I cleaned them. When Wayne came again to shoe and we got Kkashmeer back on the E3Live FOR HORSES™, his feet hardened up and we were back in business.
Other side benefits from the E3Live FOR HORSES™, in my opinion, is that my horses just never get sick. While horses around us have gotten strangles and hoof abscesses, our horses remain healthy. Their coats are lustrous and gleaming during the summer months, thick and rich during the winter. They shed out better than they ever did before during the spring. I can only attribute that to the E3Live FOR HORSES™.
Jag, our Pinto/Arabian cross, did have an accident and cut himself badly in barbed wire about six months ago. He had about 12 stitches, it was a very deep gash, going three layers deep. Jag healed so well and so quickly, you can’t even see any scarring.
About six weeks ago, I sustained a neck injury, resulting from a fall. I had not been able to even clean hooves once and was trembling with fear and trepidation that when Wayne came to shoe, their feet would be falling off! I just knew that they would be very thrushy because of the really wet weather and all the mud. I watched as Wayne picked out each healthy hoof with no evidence of thrush at all!
There are no words to describe the feeling of bringing Kkashmeer back from the precipice of the nearly-dead.
We are so tremendously grateful for the results of E3Live FOR HORSES™ and a great farrier who has given us back five wonderful years of this great horse. I will never again be without E3Live FOR HORSES™.
Gil and Annie Maines
Placerville, CA |
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