#get learnt

[alliekills]

Do you know what hypnosis is

yeah it’s when you move your hips against another girl’s body until you reach homostasis

[craigslisthorses]

Fun work day! Mare was checked by another veterinarian in foal with twins and just "hoped" one would go away! They didn't! Mare received an estrumate shot last week to essentially abort the twins, upon ultrasound you could see the embryos breaking down so we did an in and out flush to retrieve the remnants. A perfectly preserved little embryo came out, this is what a horse embryo looks like at 45-50ish days.

[craigslisthorses]

Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis (HYPP)

Breeds with HYPP; Quarter Horses, American Paint Horses, Appaloosas, and Quarter Horse Crosses.

HYPP

"An inherited disease of the muscle, caused by a genetic defect. A mutation in the sodium channel gene. Sodium channels are pores in the muscle cell membrane which control contraction of the muscle fibers. When the defective sodium channel gene is present, the channel becomes “leaky” and makes the muscle overly excitable and contract involuntarily. The channel become “leaky” when potassium levels fluctuate in the blood. This may occur with fasting followed by consumption of a high potassium feed such as alfalfa. Hyperkalemia, which is an excessive amount of potassium in the blood, causes the muscles in the horse to contract more readily than normal. This makes the horse susceptible to sporadic episodes of muscle tremors or paralysis."

GENOTYPE

HYPP Positive= H/N and H/H

HYPP Negative= HYPP N/N

HYPP horses with H/N genotype means they are heterozygous carriers, carrying one copy of the HYPP gene. If you bred a mare who is H/N to a stallion who is N/N, you would have about a 50% chance the foal is H/N as well. However if you bred an H/N mare to an H/N stallion you will have about a 25% chance the foal being N/N, a 50% chance it will be H/N, and a 25% chance it will be H/H.

HYPP horses with the H/H genotype means it is homozygous, carrying both copies of the HYPP gene. 100% passing the HYPP gene to it's offspring.

I made a thing in case it helps the visual learners out there

IMPRESSIVE (but not really)

Let's talk about the QH stallion, Impressive. All horses that have a HYPP positive gene of any kind, all descend from this horse. Impressive sired 2,250 foals and they estimate he has around 50,000 living descendants. No dilution of lineage will remove HYPP, as it is a dominant trait and will show whether you are 5 generations back or 2.

HYPP SYMPTOMS

HYPP varies in severity, it's not always equal and every horse may have different reactions. HYPP can be confused for tying-up or even colic, they may have difficulty breathing, muscle tremors, sweating, weakness, tremors. In more severe cases the horse may collapse from paralysis of the muscles in the airway and can result in sudden death.

Not every horse who is HYPP positive may display symptoms, making this disease sometimes hard to detect.

IS IT CURABLE?

No. HYPP may be managed with diet and certain medicines for maintenance but it cannot be cured. H/H positive horses have poor prognosis and can be much more difficult to manage.

VIDEOS OF HYPP ATTACKS

CW: Horses in distress, videos may be hard to watch for some.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

Video 4

Video 5

Sources (and if you want to read more); AAEP , UCDavis, Tri-State

Is there anything I forgot? Anything to add? Just covering the basics of this disease and what it does to these horses.

[craigslisthorses]

I have an odd question and you seem like the person who would know the answer:

What is it called when horses have their front legs set fairly far back in relation to their shoulder, like is often seen in poorly bred draft crosses?

Does it cause any actual issues or is it just unsightly?

Thanks!

This is an old question I am just now getting around to answering.

Camped Under is the term you are looking for. A horse that stands camped under can have hood pain/issues like navicular, but conformational camped under puts a lot of stress on the tendons and ligaments and is not ideal conformation, can lead to pulled tendons and lameness A lot of times the horse is just standing stupid and isn't actually camped under naturally but here are some visual representations

[andromedazach]

good morning mr jacq

[carinavet]

Hola! I saw your rb about cultural appropriation not being inherently bad and I wanted to know what sources you've used? I need it for my paper granted I'm proving the opposite of your definition. I hope this doesn't come off as bad.

That does not come off as bad: learning from accredited sources is always good, especially if you’re gonna argue against something. I'm gonna point you to this angry rant in which I discover that literally every source I looked at gave me a different definition of the term.

[craigslisthorses]

I have a question about this Craigslist Horse! What's with the shave job, is that aesthetic or is it supposed to serve a purpose? (also I live in yeeyee country so if you ever need submissions hmu 😂)

Submission

Actually!!! This is what you call an Irish clip I think?? Idk I don’t clip horses BUT people clip horses winter coats when they are actively riding a lot, to prevent the horses from sweating profusely and getting too overheated in their thick wooly winter coats. There are several different types of clips for different levels of work 

And I found you/anyone else who likes a quick visual read an article 

Different types of horse clipping

*also i always take submissions so send them as you find them- yeeyee*

[tetedurfarm]

the colourpoint coat colour like in himalayans is temperature sensitive!  it’s a form of albinism that only affects the warmest parts of the animal (it’s not just in rabbits - this is how siamese cats work too!) and leave the extremities coloured.  that’s why the nose, ears, feet, and tail have colour because those are the coldest parts.  

‘smut’ is what it’s called when there’s dark areas on a colourpoint animal that shouldn’t be there as per standard.

here is another photo of thumps, the chill lady i’m holding in the other post.  you can see that the edge of her nose marking is “messy” and around her eyes there’s colour -  that’s not supposed to be there.  this is caused by areas on the animal that aren’t normally cold getting cold, changing the colour of the hair (wild, i know.)  it can occur very quickly - quick enough that if you take a rabbit to a show in winter, they’ll get lines on their legs from leaning against the cold bars of their carry cage.  smut is the bane of every colourpoint exhibiter, and you have to wait until their next moult - often a full six months - before it’ll go away.

washington’s snowmageddon is pretty much over but thumps here is near the from of the barn meaning she dealt with more wind than everyone else and even a little snow, so her little face got all smutty from being a little cold for a few days.  but don’t worry, rabbits adore cold weather.  they wear fur coats year-round after all.