On 1/30/07, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> 1. do they always have that sunken in part over the eye filled in? I > read that a cushings horse has that filled in, and GBs is very deep. > > I've never heard that. Sundance was diagnosed positive for Cushing's (at > 19, and lived to be 24) and he had what I consider an "old horse face" > including those sunken spots.
I didn't get Janice's original Email. The sunken spots above the eyes can be from malnutrition, age, or cushings if in a young horse. FWIW, Star has them and she's around 9, and the vet wants me to test for Cushings, but it's about $500 to test and I wouldn't change what I do now. > The long coat is merely ONE symptom. Not all horses with Cushing's have it. > Sundance never got the long hair, but he had plenty of other symptoms: 1) > greatly increased thirst, 2) loss of weight, 3) unexplained laminitis in a > thin horse, 4) apparent loss of balance - maybe dizziness, and 5) some > narcolepsy. Ditto the hair coat. Long, curly hair can just be an old horse thing, too. Steph -- "Brutality begins where skill ends." "Correctly understood, work at the lunge line is indispensable for rider and horse from the very beginning through the highest levels." Von Niendorff
