we had a little bit of a scary situation with our fall and today I'm going to tell
you all about that if you're new here my name is brandi and this channel is all
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so you don't miss anything this is Mainzer he's five weeks old and
recently had symptoms that required an emergency vet call after our examination
our vet recommended giving Mainzer ulcer guard for two weeks to see if ulcers or
possibly the root of the problem if you would like to know more I've posted a
link above that'll take you to see Mansour's full story we're guessing he
weighs approximately 150 pounds so I'm gonna set this for three notches it's
fifty pounds and knotch he's eating right now so she's gonna
have some food kind of stuck in his mouth so I'm gonna wait until he's done
eating and then I'll go ahead and give this to him
I've been really careful how I give this to him because this is going to set him
up for how he's accepting dewormer and such in the future so I want to make
sure that if he struggles at all that I wait until he is I wait until he relaxes
and changes his expression before I release the pressure so I'm just gonna
go ahead and make sure to get it into his cheek whoopsie so that got stuck to
the grain and then I'm just gonna stand here and pet him find a good spot to
itch
it really likes his chest his withers scratched
that's weird see that
video.this come in the world
it's weird
so anytime I find something weird like that I don't know why he's doing this
but anytime I find a spot that is weird they're weird about touching I just keep
working at it until they're good with it can you explain like what he's doing
that's weird you can see he's as I'm rubbing my hand on here he's twitching
it's a lot better
so I want to make sure that he's I would never want to release pressure at a
moment where they're not okay with something because then they're gonna get
worse about that
I put my hand underneath his belly and hold him there
but I've never seen him do that before with his back yeah that's fine
so that's good oh there it is again and I'm ready to hold on to him in case you
should go too you might just be that he's just getting
used to flies and stuff too I really I have no idea I've never experienced it
before but I know if all my other horses that's just what I do is I always make
sure that they're ok with something before I stop doing it or that they've
changed their expression
see that tensing and that twitching I don't want to create any kind of braces
in him this is really important stuff for later on when he's you know getting
trained from with a saddle I want to be able to put my hands all over him and
have him be comfortable with it
it's the first time I've ever picked up his foot
- spot where he likes to be scratched and work on that for a minute
so everybody asked me when I'm gonna start training him well I already am
every time I touch him I'm training him so I like to find spots that he likes to
be touched spots that he doesn't like to be touched and I work on those
I want to be able to touch them up in here
I'll switch sides pick up those other feet
good boy
and the more I can help them with the flies the more he'll enjoy this
switch sides again
they love him
you know in case there's noise
he's standing so nice and quiet back by his mom's tail and his hair on his bum
is growing back now so that's really nice to see okay there's a quick little
update on Mainzer and how he's doing um so I'm gonna talk to the vet as soon as
we're done with the ulcer guard I'm gonna talk to the vet and see what she
thinks and if she thinks everything is good then we don't need to do any kind
of follow-up and we'll just kind of see how it goes if you enjoyed this video
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let me know if you've ever had a fall that's had gastric ulcers that you knew
about first time I ever even heard about it so I'd love to know what your
experience is thanks for watching