Well, I share your distrust of the medical profession in general, and most of the time holding off and seeing how it goes isn’t going to hurt anything, but a head injury ain’t one of those times. It’s definately better to err on the side of caution then coz once your brain’s gone, there ain’t no fixing it. The same goes for strokes and TIAs. If ANYBODY is showing ANY signs you need to get them to the ER as soon as possible. You’ve got a very small window to reverse the damage, after that it’s just dealing with the aftermath. And I only say that because we’re all getting older, and like it or not, we’ve got to start thinking about stuff like that.
You know I’ve heard about studies that show that there are connections between even mild concussions and problems later in life. I’d probably go faster now then I would have back then...
Becky
For a long time I fed Purina Senior to everyone... Mixed with dry COB (Corn Oats Barley) depending on whether I thought everyone was thin or fat. The ratio was usually one bag senior two bags COB lately. But since the issue with Bay's feet, three months or so now, I've just been feeding dry COB, wondering if the molasses in the Senior feed had anything to do with that. They never got very much, still getting one small (1 lb) coffee can full for the horses, half for the pony. Plus good hay. The hay we get is pretty rich, nutrition-wise.
Well, I got in a long conversation with some ladies at the feed store who were discussing vitamins. It was sortof like jumping in on a thread over at the horse forum. ;~)
Most of what they said overwhelmed me... they were talking about Iron and Copper and Selinium and one of them binding to the other one so it didn't get digested and all that... over my head. But I did mention that I was only feeing COB and had never fed a vitamin. Occasional loose salt/mineral.
They thought I should probably feed Bay more.. that he needed some additional vitamins, Iron, Calcium, that he wasn't going to get from COB. So I bought that Millennium Gold supplement. I'm going to be giving it to everyone. It does have Biotin in it and I have known Biotin to make horses a little hyper... I'll be keeping an eye on Cyn... I don't mind it making Bay hot, but I don't want Cyn getting revved up on it.
I also switched to the Flex Wafers instead of the Joint Combo I've always used... it has a lot higher dose of everything, and is cheaper. Plus, it doesn't double Bay up on Biotin, since the JC and the vitamin have that. They're supposed to be fed like a treat and Bay won't eat them. I think he's eating them when I break them up in his grain.
SO there's that... new vitamins and supplements. I still don't understand what those women were talking about, but I was convinced I wasn't feeding quite as balanced of a diet as I should.