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it is time for a little horse care here

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so uh corey tell me uh what what do you

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do first of all tell me a little bit

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about what you do

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okay i'm a mixed animal so

i work on large and small

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um medicine and okay so you

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came out to the farm here today and what

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does this horse need to have done to it

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he just needs a general so physical

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exam

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and then hannah picked up on a few signs

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of a possible

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that we want to test him for

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before we decide to vaccinate him and do

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anything else to him

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okay okay i suppose these are the things

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when you're

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with your horses every day that you

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realize about them right right right and

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they're getting very good at picking up

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on the probably better than me

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at some point

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so what were you seeing hannah um so

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like

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he is super like i don't know he's just

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weird in the back ends like

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some days he's off yeah he's off and

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then

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he'll get sound and then he'll get off

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again and then like we picked his tail

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up and there's like

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nothing nothing no no tone no risk

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like restraint at all yeah okay so

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normally when you do this they should

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pull their tail down tight against their

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their behind and he's not doing that and

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that's one of the symptoms of

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the disease that we're talking about

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called epm

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is the common name that we use it stands

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for equine protozoa

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myo myelitis horses don't pass the

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disease to each other

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it actually comes from other animals

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possums can

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carry it it's actually a and so

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when they defecate in the

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that parasite can be in there and so

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then when they're grazing the hay they

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ingest it

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and it gets into their spinal

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and it causes neurologic signs so

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some horses get exposed and don't ever

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show signs some horses get exposed and

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they get

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symptoms from it okay so to test for it

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we draw and we

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send it off okay is he going to like

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that

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i doubt it again i mean i only have

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experience with my kids that

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um you know the doctor the owner of this

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horse actually didn't know

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anything about the disease either

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because we picked up on the symptoms he

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was showing and then we told him about

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it and he was here the other day and

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he's like

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my horses at home are doing the same

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thing now so

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we're gonna have to have corey go to his

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house next they're bringing me some

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business

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right okay so now you'll get that tested

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and then you'll know if you need to

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vaccinate him for it or treat him for it

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actually we'll know if he has the

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disease because if he does have the

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disease and he has neurologic symptoms

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he may not be

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a candidate to be ridden because it's

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unsafe for somebody to ride him if he's

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not

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stable on his legs or lame all the time

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he can't vaccinate for this

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specific disease but we don't want to

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stress his immune system with a vaccine

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if he has it