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Taking a horse to the dentist

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Soapweed

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The three-year-old Paint horse (Two Zee or not to Zee) that I purchased last spring doesn't look as fat and sassy as he should. He has had ample opportunity to eat good green grass all summer, but still is lacking in condition. I figured a trip to the dentist was in order. Here are some pictures of the procedure. First off, a shot of anesthesia was administered, and then the rest of these pictures show the sequence. There were some sharp corners on his teeth. I hope by them being removed, eating will become a more pleasurable experience and he will start to gain weight.

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Horse dentistry
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Fitting the gizmo
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Rinsing out the mouth
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Open up real wide
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Gee, look at all those groceries
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Looks like a cave
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Mechanized file
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Deep concentration
 
I think thats the guy my dentist did his appenticeship with..........


my jaw still hurts from the last visit......................... :wink: :roll:
 
I gotta tell ya Soap...I've had a lot of horses' teeth floated --but I never thought to take my camera along :)
You DO capture the ordinary and make it fun to see -- thanks!!
 
Not an ever day sight, but often enuff around here. All ours go once a year to get their teeth done. Along with coggins, and vaccinations. Thank goodness they all aren't on the same schedule. LOL

How often do you worm your horses Soapweed? and with what?
 
My vet just grabs the tounge and has me hold it out to the side ( a good grip ) and he floats one side then we move to the other - - - I'm sure your method is a lot more complete.

Good looking assistant as far as you let us see - - - what are you hiding her for???
 
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Not an ever day sight, but often enuff around here. All ours go once a year to get their teeth done. Along with coggins, and vaccinations. Thank goodness they all aren't on the same schedule. LOL

How often do you worm your horses Soapweed? and with what?
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We try to worm them at least once a year, sometimes twice. We usually use whatever the vet supply store recommends. A couple days ago when I got the teeth floated on Two Zee or not to Zee, I bought a supply of Panacur Equine Dewormer to do the rest of our horses.

Last fall, I bought a nice registered yearling stud for $250. Now he is two, and a pretty good-looking coon-tailed rascal. My original plan for last Tuesday was to haul him along to the vet's to get him castrated. That was going to cost $92.50. Even though he was a nice horse, he looked like he might not get big enough for either Saddletramp or me.

As there was a horse sale in Gordon that afternoon, I decided to just sell the horse. He brought $260, and I was just out a year's feed. After commission was taken out, the check was for $241.69. On to Rushville I went, with the Paint horse to get his teeth floated. With the job completed, the vet helped me load the horse on the trailer. Then I remembered that he probably needed to be wormed, so went back into the office to get wormer and pay the bill. All charges connected with the dentistry cost $104.83, and the wormer was $8.90 per dose times sixteen. Anyway, my veterinary bill was $242.93. Basically the two-year-old was sold to pay for the health and well-being of the rest of our horse herd. :? :wink:
 
That's a lil more than what my vet charges to float. $75 that includes the "bar tab" (drugs) LOL They look like they are drunk when they get em all doped up to do stuff like that. hehe

As for wormin, we worm ever 6 weeks, and try not to use the same wormer twice in a row.
 
Everyone who has horses shood have there teeth floated every spring... It makes the better eaters and they wont throw there heads around in bits...Its a easy chores if you got the tools...l
 
We had a man that lives a few miles away in Blackfoot that castrated horses for years. I took five colts five years in a row to him and he only charged $10. I gave him $20 each time. That included a shot of penicillin. Castrated them standin' up crosstied from the halter in a wooden chute with 3 pipes behind their legs, in case they kick. I watched him do a few others and my own and I never saw a one even flinch. No drugs just the penicillin. He was close to 70 the last time I was there, 2 yrs ago. He was very quick. It took longer to get the horse out of the trailer and lead it over to the chute than it did for him to cut them. I've never had a problem with a horse that he castrated. I've talked to at least a dozen people that have been there and they haven't had any problems either. I turn them out on pasture when I get home and they seem to keep movin' on their own and have very little soreness. He doesn't do it any more. Says he's too old and ready to retire.I took a 4 yr old there once after he had bred some mares and I didn't care to keep his genes. He had one small testicle that was adhered to his abdomen. He told me he would rather let the vet do that one. No complications just drug him, lay him down flip him over and pull the smaller one away from the abdomen to cut. $175 Big difference. Lilly talked 'bout the bar tab...I've had people flinch over the bar tab for shoein'.$10extra The stuff costs $80 for a 5ml bottle and I use 1/2 ml on one horse. $2 for administerin'...puts their nose in the dirt for one hour. Better'n hunks of my hand ripped out by nails. I wish I'd had my camera when I went to Mr. Mattingly's .
 
You sold a coon-tailed horse, Soapweed? :???:
tsk, tsk, tsk. They are ALWAYS good ones. Darn, you
should have told me. I'd have bid $10 more... :wink: :P :lol:

As for worming, Pancur is a great wormer (same ingredient as Safe-guard which is fenebezatol-might need a spell check on that :wink: ).
One little tip, you can buy the Safe-Guard paste wormer quite a bit
cheaper...soon as something is specified for EQUINES the price goes up.
And, Panacur or Safeguard does NOT get bots, so it isn't the best
wormer for fall if you are only worming one time. That would be the
time when Avermectin products work best...right after a good freeze.
JMHO...They do get bots.
 

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