Yeah, until last night I would have thought "Oh the poor horse" if I saw that bit, but now I realize, especially since it lays flat that that is a very soft bit.
I'd like to try one of the bits I saw last night. I think they would be very good, probabley better even then what I'm useing now. I just don't have the $80 for one right now. The guy said alot of the shops/feedstores that are dealing in these bits are letting people "rent" then one at a time and the price of the rent goes towards the eventual purchase of the one you want.
I hope my feed store does this.
This vet uses a speculum, heavily sedates the horse, and has a power float. Sounds like she really know her stuff. She even mentioned the cons of the power float and what she does to keep a problem from happening.
Becky
Becky
Yeah, a power float definately is a weapon of mass destruction in the hands of an inexperienced user. You can grind off WAY too much tooth if you don't know what you're doing, or can't SEE what you're doing.
This equine dentist I use also puts a special halter on them and ties it up to the top bar of the stancheon so that it that supports their head at the right height after the speculum is in their mouth so he has both hands free to work. It looks a HELL of a lot easier than having a 300lb horse head hanging on one arm, or on your assistant's shoulder while you try to hunker over and see up into his mouth. I just don't get it why my vet doesn't do that. I know that part of the reason is that he's nearly been brained by a horse with a speculum in it mouth, but I'd think that he just needed to be sedated a little more first. He also says that he can be done by the time he gets all that contraption on, but I keep thinking "yeah, and how good a job are you doing by getting done that quick?". So I guess he has valid reasons, to him, but I'd just rather use somebody else for that particular service, even if it means I gotta trailer an hour.