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in a ball and flip out when I see to judge ... except for those have never owned a horse. people who like clowns. I’m a clown in real life. That’s the Barring any inheritance going to judge you some. But reaction most of my so-called bestowed upon me by a I know for sure a lot of people friends are looking for. I am, mysterious stranger, or the like horses, I’m just not one of however, put on edge with a complete collapse of our monthose people. fight-or-flight response. When etary system forcing society But, that is not going to stop a clown is near me, it probably back into barme from bringing you a great has no clue that it is one false tering, I probEquine Edition of the Land & move away from me either ably never Livestock Post. We have several leaving a cartoon-like Jessewill own a great stories in here, including sized hole through the nearest horse. Even if some tips and advice on how door, or me punching him in we did revert to keep your equine friends the face. to the barter healthy.

My aversion to horses is system, I Texas A&M AgriLife Extension photo think I’d fare We also have several other JESSE WRIGHT no way near as severe. It is If possible, store large bales individually until the fire danger passes, then store better with features that I hope you’ll enmore akin to my aversion to in large stacks. joy. Thanks for reading, and cauliflower. When presented shiny beads and firewater please don’t send me any cauliwith the opportunity to eat than horses. flower, clowns or horses. cauliflower or, say, ride a I don’t particularly care for ’Til next time, horse, my response is the same horses. every time: “That’s not going I’ve found that it is rarely a to happen”. No adrenaline good idea to tell someone you rush, no hateful feelings, just don’t like something.

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News

Stiles Farm Field Day celebrates 50th year on June 18

By Blair Fannin Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

THRALL — For decades, the annual Stiles Farm Field Day at the 2,600-acre farm in Williamson County has served as a platform to showcase the latest production practices.

The 2013 edition scheduled June 18 will be no different, but a bit special, according to organizers, as the event turns 50.

In keeping with tradition, the field day will feature the latest in crop-farming practices and new technology used in production agriculture, organizers said.

“This will be a very special day for everyone,” said Archie Abrameit, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service farm manager. “This farm has a lot of history and is the perfect teaching platform for all Blacklands farmers. It’s exactly what the Stiles family wanted in creating the Stiles Farm Foundation — a platform in which farmers and ranchers could come together and learn how to become more efficient and profitable in their operations.”

Cost is $10 with registration starting at 7:45 a.m. Presentations and tours begin at 8:30 a.m.

This year’s field day will feature the following morning sessions: • Travis Miller, AgriLife Extension Service program leader

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TexasA&MAgriLife Extension Service photo Archie Abrameit, Stiles Farm manager and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service farm manager, showcases one of the onions grown on the farm.

those 50 years, Abrameit said.

While showcasing innovation has been a hallmark at Stiles, few farmers back then would likely believe what the farm is using today to cultivate the rich Blacklands soil.

“If you would have told a group of farmers in 1963 we’d have a tractor that could drive by itself, you’d get laughed out of the county,” said Abrameit, sitting inside the cab of a newly outfitted tractor with GPS, automatic steering and camera

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Equine Edition

Correctly administrating first aid to a horse

By RoBeRt FeaRs Special to The Post

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ost of us are aware of our horse’s condition while we are riding, but we often forget to monitor its health when it is not being used. Horses should be seen daily so cuts, swellings, lameness or sickness are noticed soon after occurrence.

“Early diagnosis of health problems in horses and immediate first aid gives a veterinarian a much better chance of saving an animal,” said Dr. Janet Arlitt. An equine veterinarian her entire career, Arlitt owns and operates Live Oak Veterinary Clinic near Liberty Hill. She deals with a number of sick or injured horses on a daily basis.

Arlitt recommends, “Every horse owner should keep an equine first aid kit in the sta-

ble, barn, trailer or wherever it can be obtained quickly.

Be prepared

She suggests that the first aid kit contain the following items: • 4 X 4 gauze pads.

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Dr. Fred Hopkins of the University of Tennessee recommends adding a nose twitch and rubber gloves to the first aid kit. It is also a good idea to keep a clean bucket nearby, with plastic bags to line the bucket. This ensures that the

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“A non-bleeding wound should be washed with disinfectant such as a saline or iodine solution, treated with an antiseptic salve and bandaged,” Arlitt said. “Bleeding from a wound should be stopped as quickly as possible by pressing against it with a stack of gauze pads. Once bleeding stops, the wound should be tightly bandaged.

After these immediate treatments, take the horse to a veterinary clinic where it can be treated more thoroughly.”

“If lameness is apparent,

According to Linda CoatesMarkle, formerly of Oregon State University, colic is a general term given for any abdominal pain and can be recognized by one or more of these symptoms: • Playing in water with mouth.

• Sweating.

• Curling the upper lip.

• Abdominal distention.

• Refusing to eat.

• Depression.

• Biting flanks.

• Lack of defecation.

• Looking at abdomen.

• Small volumes of firm, mucus-covered feces.

• An expression of anxiety on face.

• Anorexia.

• Increased pulse rate.

• Normal or raised temperature.

Other symptoms include kicking at belly, rolling, pawing, getting up and down frequently and overall restlessness. Often the animal assumes a “saw horse” posture, with legs stretched out as if to

Dr. Janet Artlitt of Live Oak Veterinary Clinic near Liberty Hill leads a horse to check for lameness. urinate.

For treatment of colic, Arlitt recommends walking the animal for 10 to 15 minutes. When walking does not rectify the problem, she suggests treating the horse with an analgesic such as Banamine. The horse should not be allowed to eat for 12 hours, but can be given water. If the animal is not comfortable within 45 minutes to an hour, it should be taken to a veterinarian.

“Foundering, or laminitis, is a fairly common occurrence in horses, but its cause is still not well understood. Laminitis research is being conducted worldwide,” Artlitt said.

“Foundering primarily occurs when horses get sore in the front feet, but it can also affect back feet or all four feet.

“With light cases of laminitis, horses’ feet become tender and they may act like they are walking on egg shells. In severe cases, the horse can hardly move and will have an elevated pulse and temperature in its feet,” Arlitt said.

“Foundering is a toxic reaction in an animal’s body and can be caused by a change in feed or getting too hot and then drinking too much water.

It is sometimes initiated after a case of colic or a severe bout with diarrhea as a result of eating too much green grass in the spring. When a horse develops laminitis, it is important to get it to a veterinarian as quickly as possible,” she

said.

“Horses that have been bitten by poisonous snakes are frequently brought into my clinic,” Arlitt said. “I urge that a horse not be walked after being bitten and that every effort is made to take that animal to a veterinarian quickly. Freezing, lancing and other first aid

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Wounds, lameness and charley horse

Colic, founder and snake bites

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inside of the bucket will be clean with each use. Include a list of emergency telephone numbers in your first aid kit that contain contact information for your veterinarian, neighbors and other people who can help in an emergency.

A writing pad and pen are important for listing the symptoms and what the veterinarian has advised you to do.

“Normal rectal temperature of most adult horses is 90 to 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit,” Hopkins said. “When you call the veterinarian, you will be asked about the horse’s temperature; so the first aid kit should include a rectal thermometer. Digital thermometers are quick and easy to use but the batteries will run down. Mercury thermometers are more accurate, but slow and breakable. It takes three minutes to get a horse’s temperature with a mercury thermometer.”

The emergency equipment list is completed with plastic bags, plastic containers and a toolbox for keeping supplies together, dry and clean.

Hopkins stressed that you must remain calm while handling emergencies. Horses will sense your panic and become nervous, making a bad situation worse. Deep, measured breathing is very effective for inducing calmness.

“Remember your personal safety,” Hopkins said. “You won’t do the horse any good if you get injured. If logical and practical, move the horse to an area where it can be confined and safely restrained.”

decide which leg(s) is lame and the severity,” Hopkins said. “Examine the lame leg for warm areas, areas painful to the touch, swelling and abnormal movement or position.

Wrap the leg using a thick bandage extending from one joint above the affected area to one joint below. If no bones are broken, move the horse to an area where movement can be limited. If in doubt , leave the horse where it is until help arrives.”

“If a horse ‘ties-up’ (becomes exhausted, stiff or muscle-sore), stop the horse, dismount and get a trailer to him. If the animal is led or continued to be ridden, serious muscle damage can occur,” Arlitt said.

“Tying-up is like a giant charley horse caused by over-exertion. It usually occurs when a horse that has not been exercised regularly is taken from pasture and worked hard. It can also occur with horses that are in good shape but are worked too hard for too long a period. A horse that ties-up should be taken to a veterinarian for examination and treatment,” Arlitt said.

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A horse’s health depends largely on the amount of care it receives. Daily observation, routine exercise and proper handling play a big part in keeping a horse healthy and extending its longevity.

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the Stiles Farm Foundation was established and became part of the Texas A&M University System.

The farm is utilized by AgriLife Extension and Texas A&M AgriLIfe Research, conducting field experiments and used as a teaching platform.

“Everything was bed and re-bed during that time,” said Fred Richter, who has attend-

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Richter said attendance grew even more a short time after the inaugural event when the Taylor County of Chamber of Commerce came on board.

As it is today, cotton root rot was a nemesis to Blacklands farmers in the 1960s, Richter said, who back then found some success by continuous cultivation before planting. Cultivation practices through the years have been featured at numerous fields.

Richter said, however, the corner was turned when farmers learned about conservation tillage, another practice featured at the Stiles Farm, that helped producers preserve soil moisture and spend less per acre in field preparation.

Anthony Gola, a 2003 graduate of Texas A&M, farms and ranches in Williamson County.

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Equine Edition

Workout Exercise your horses before putting them to work

By RoBeRt FeaRs Special to The Post

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anch horses sometimes are used only twice a year — during spring and fall roundups — and allowed to loaf during rest of the year. At roundup time the horses are expected to work long hours for several days at top performance without any preconditioning.

When I worked on ranches during my college years, horses were ridden every day through the pastures checking cattle. During the winter, we rode them to the feed sheds in each pasture and fed cattle hay or supplement. Now these chores are completed from allterrain vehicles and the horses are left standing in the pasture.

As with people, horses need exercise to stay fit. We can’t lie on the couch watching television all year and then expect to finish the Boston Marathon without first getting our body in good physical condition. Likewise, we cannot leave a horse in the pasture all year and then work it hard during roundup without the risk of serious consequences.

“All horsemen should have a good understanding of basic conditioning concepts,” said Dennis Sigler, a horse specialist with Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. “Far too many horses have to be pulled out of the working string because they have been pushed too hard, too fast and were not physically fit to do what the rider asked of them.”

Building physical fitness — in either a horse or a person — involves conditioning the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal systems. Cardiovascular conditioning improves the ability of the heart and lungs to work together to fuel the body with oxygen, deliver blood to the muscles and remove metabolism by-products. The cardiovascular system gives the musculoskeletal system ability to function.

Musculoskeletal conditioning enhances muscle strength, endurance and flexibility. Strength is the amount of force a muscle can exert in a single effort and endurance is the ability of a muscle to perform a continuous effort

It is important to give your horse ample exercise between events to ensure they are ready to perform.

On the cover: Horses kept in pens need to be exercised at least once daily.

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without fatiguing. Flexibility is the ability of each joint to express its full range of motion.

Overload principle

“Cardiovascular and musculoskeletal conditioning involves two basic principles,” Sigler said. “The overload principle is the basis for all conditioning responses. This means that the system must be overloaded in some manner such as intensity, speed or time in order to elicit a response. Basically, when the system is overloaded it relays that fact to the rest of the body and passes on the message, ‘Hey, that hurts and we should get better prepared in case it happens again.’

“Another important concept of the overload principle is in order to continue to improve fitness, there must

be a continued workload increase.

Otherwise, the horse reaches a plateau of fitness relative to the current level of physical exertion and stays at that level. Gradually increasing the workload is the only way we can get a horse progressively more fit. Of course, if we overload the system too much or too quickly, serious breakdowns can occur before they become fit.”

Sigler asked, “How do we know if we are sufficiently overloading the system or more importantly, overloading too much? Heart rate in response to an exercise bout is the easiest way the average horseman can assess exercise

stress. In a research setting, blood lactate concentration gives us a more accurate measure of relative fitness and exercise stress to an activity. However, by taking the horse’s heart rate by hand or by using one of the widely available on-board heart rate monitors, any horse handler can immediately ascertain cardiovascular response to exercise.”

“Trying to find a horse’s pulse can be frustrating,” said Dr. Lydia Gray, medical director/staff veterinarian for SmartPak Equine. “Fortunately, there

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Exercise, from Page 10

as at the end of a long cross-country cattle drive.

Exercise specificity “The other principle of conditioning

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is specificity of exercise,” Sigler said.

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are some tools that can help monitor pulse or heart rate. For the serious rider, a heart monitor is a must-have. In addition to those that include a wristwatch receiver so you can see the rate while still in the saddle, some models even monitor and store the heart rate over an entire exercise session.

“Then there’s your basic stethoscope. No horse owner should be without one. Place the buds in your ears so they point forward, slide the stethoscope head forward underneath a horse’s elbow on the left side until you hear the heart beat. Count only one of the sounds: ‘Lub-DUB’ is one beat. The normal heart rate for a horse is 28 to 42 beats per minute.”

Table 1 shows approximate heart rate response to different levels of exercise. Obviously, heart rates will vary slightly with different levels of fitness of the horse. In order to improve the horse’s anaerobic (without oxygen) system, the horse must be pushed hard enough to get heart rates over 150 beats per minute. It is important, in the latter stages of training, to conduct anaerobic exercise, so that the horse develops the capability to continue to work in times of oxygen deficits such

to the activity they will be doing at the actual competition. So while they are learning to turn and stop with a cow, they are also getting more fit for the specific type of exercise they will be performing. In all events or activities, we must be sure horses are conditioned to do the type of exercise they will be asked for in actual competition.”

How many barrel horses are exercised every day at a long-trot and then go to a jackpot barrel race or a practice session and make two or three hard runs at a full gallop? (A long-trot is faster than a jog trot, but slower than a lope.) Ranch horses which only have been long-trotted and slow galloped on the ranch may not be physically fit to go to a roping on the weekend and run 10 or 12 hard steer roping runs in a row. The horse should not be asked to perform at a level in competition it has not done at home.

“How long does the conditioning process take? With the right kind of training, we can actually get significant cardiovascular conditioning in as little as four weeks. It takes much longer than that to get bones, tendons and ligaments conditioned,” Sigler said.

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oxygen to yield carbon dioxide, water and heat; temperatures may reach 130 degrees. Second, bacteria and fungi produce heat.

This can raise temperatures to 170 degrees.

“In the third stage, oxygen combines with highly oxidizable material produced during second-stage heating,” Huhnke said. “This process starts at about 170 degrees.”

At this point, the situation becomes critical. Temperatures will continue to rise to the kindling point if enough oxygen and moisture are present to generate heat faster than it can escape.

“Monitor piles daily because sometimes it can take as much as a week before signs of a heating problem can arise,” Huhnke said. “If the temperature reaches 140 degrees, recheck every few hours. If the temperature

reaches 180 degrees, contact your local fire department. Do not move the hay until the fire department is present.”

A steel rod can be used initially to check pile temperatures by driving it into the pile, waiting for 15 to 20 minutes and then pulling it out. If the rod is too hot to hold by hand, the situation is critical.

Huhnke cautions producers to stack hay in a locale where The more horses you have, the more time it takes to keep them fit. air can circulate around the pile to allow heat and moisture to escape.

If possible, store large bales individually until the danger passes, then store in large stacks.

“Weeds can significantly increase the moisture content of otherwise dry material, so plan accordingly,” he said. “As always, take time to monitor suspect piles and contact your local fire department if there is reason for concern.”

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Interval training continues to build aerobic capacity as well as strength and speed.”

Ranch horses can be conditioned and kept in good condition by putting the all-terrain vehicles in the shed and riding horseback to check cattle.

Speed work can be worked into the routine by loping to the pasture, between pastures and back to the barn. Then when it’s time to use the horses for roundup, they will be ready.

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“Once past this period, we can gradually start introducing speed work one to two times per week in order to get the horse over the anaerobic threshold and to begin to get more bone density and strength,” Sigler said. After three to four weeks of gradually introduced speed work, the

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Clay Cavinder, associate professor of equine science at Texas A&M and AgriLife Research scientist, who has spent the past few years researching such a system.

Cavinder, along with Dennis Sigler and Luis Tedeschi, both Texas A&M faculty members, have teamed to create a modeling program to help horse owners get recommended diets for their horses.

“We took about 11 months of data that was collected using broodmare measurements dur-

ing my doctoral studies,” Cavinder said. “Dr. Tedeschi took that information and began creating a modeling program.”

The model then was tested in a feeding trial using 20 early gestating mares, which were split into groups, Cavinder said.

“During the evaluation, the 20 mares were fed to either lose or gain body condition scores as the model told us how to feed them in order to make these BCS changes,” he said. “This was in about a 30-day period where we evaluated weight,

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Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Blair Fannin The horse pictured left has a body condition score of 5, while the one pictured right has a body condition score of 4.

current state it is functional,” Cavinder said. “Our goal this summer is to make it marketable to the public on the Web and broaden the base of the program for more horses, such as performance horses.”

Cavinder said it is difficult to correctly measure the amount of feed required to add or subtract to accurately alter body condition score in horses.

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A group of researchers with Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M University department of animal science recently began to expand the body score condition system developed in the 1980s by the late Don Henneke, creating a set of prediction equations to estimate reliably how much nutritional energy is needed.

“When I was doing my undergraduate work at Oklahoma State University, we had a program called the Cowculator and I thought ‘why don’t we have this for horses?’” said

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Dr. Ric Redden, a worldrenowned veterinarian who has specialized on horse’s feet, knew this, but he also knew that you do what you can with what you have.

“A lot of things can happen,” Redden said. “But if you worry about all the things that can go wrong, you’d never get started.”

A group of nearly 20 curious veterinarians, veterinary students, farriers and horse enthusiasts stood in the shade provided by trees at the Equine Recovery Center in Dickinson recently.

In the middle of the group was Redden, in a blue scrubs top and Wrangler jeans, and nearby was a 16-year-old quarter horse named Indio.

The stallion was a bit woozy and unstable — from the drugs and from the fact that he was missing his back left hoof and part of his leg. In its place was a black cast.

The horse was only moments from going to the ground, and Redden wanted all those who were there to watch and help to know the ground rules.

Once the procedure started, he wanted everyone to be completely quiet, he said.

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“I want to be totally concentrated on what I’m doing,” Redden said.

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Right, Dr. Ric Redden, a veterinarian and farrier specializing in equine podiatry from Kentucky, double checks his supplies and equipment. Above, Redden,left, shapes a prosthetic leg for a quarter horse stallion that severed a rear hoof in April.

Operate, from Page 16 through a stall wall weeks before and severely damaged his left rear leg. The hoof was already gone, and Indio was walking on a cast.

Redden said he planned to remove one of the lower leg bones, possibly take a piece

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“Think fast but move slow,” he told the group of veterinarians and students who would be helping. “Because if you really get in a hurry doing this stuff, sometimes it can get real hairy. I can tell you some real hairy stories.”

After giving his instructions to the group, Redden began going over the details of the surgery with Dennis Jenkins, a veterinarian from Santa Fe who primarily treats horses and has been looking after Indio since his injury.

At only 16 years of age, it is possible Indio could live another 14 years, Jenkins said.

Jenkins said the horse, along with having good bloodlines and value as a stud, has sentimental value to its owners.

Redden is the go-to guy when it comes to hoofs and lower legs, and Jenkins said he was overjoyed when Redden offered to come do the surgery.

Once the horse is down, Redden works efficiently and quietly.

The cast came off to reveal the end of Indio’s leg.

The hoof was indeed gone, and Redden, scalpel in his gloved hand, removed the second phalanx bone.

He decided to leave the grafting of the frog hoof tissue for another day and instead proceeded to insert the pins needed for the cast and prosthesis.

Redden, who said he is about ready to retire from veterinarian work to focus on teaching, also explained parts of the procedure to the younger vets eagerly crowded around.

“You don’t want to crack on it,” he said as he was inserting the pins in the horse’s leg.

“That will put pressure on the pins.”

By the time the cast was being applied, Redden and the group around him began to relax. He had a metal prosthesis that he fitted and modified on the spot.

The entire procedure took about an hour.

“That went pretty good,” said Redden as he stood up.

A short time later, Indio stood up as well. Indio was a bit uneasy with his new prosthetic, but Redden said he believed the horse would do well.

Indio was a healthy horse with a good disposition, Redden said.

“A lot of it is about the patient,” he said. “If you have a nut case, you don’t have no chance.”

And despite the less than ideal settings and the possibility of an untold number of things fouling up the proceedings, it all went well, he said.

“My dad taught me many years ago, a wolf has to hunt with the teeth he’s got,” Redden said. “You take what you got and you do the very best with it that you can and you don’t complain.”

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Dr. Ric Redden, a veterinarian and farrier specializing in equine podiatry from Kentucky, watches Indio as he wakes up from anesthesia.

Leg, from Page 17 But Redden knew that once the cast came off, there were plenty of things that could go wrong.

This was the 55th time in his nearly 40-year career that he would perform this type of operation, he said. When he first started attaching prosthetics to horses, he was one of the pioneers in the field. Many of the techniques and tools used,

Redden invented and modified.

He started working with horses as a farrier, changing the shoes on his own horse when he didn’t have the money to hire someone else.

He eventually would work his way through veterinary school as a farrier. Based out of his practice in Kentucky, Redden has traveled the world working on horses’ feet and has written a book on laminitis in horses.

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