You are right, and Thank you💖 he actually also has had other health issues like DSLD, cellulitis, ulcers, pastern dermatitis and much more. He has been through a lot, but he is still his happy healthy self despite it all!!

Thank you for this comment, I really appreciate it. I’m glad others are able to see the importance of it as well, and that you can say you’ve shared a similar experience to me. HYPP is not going away anytime soon, so I hope you keep advocating. I have many friends with NH horses going through the same thing. It is always tragic because these horses end up having the best personalities and usually become out heart horses. I am also sorry to hear about your friend.

AQHA made a proposal last year discussing the ban of registering N/H horses, so I believe some change may happen in the near future. Something must have got their gears turning. Atleast, I hope so.

Not too long ago Terry Bradshaw (former quarterback and now sports announcer) had a dispersal sale of most, if not all, of his breeding stock quarter horses. I was shocked to see that all of the brood mares that I saw being sold were HYPP NH. I couldn’t believe my eyes! All of them!! HYPP is absolutely still out there. Have QH & paints you are considering buying tested (I use UC Davis) before purchase! I also know of a horse that died from HYPP (12 yo QH mare). She collapsed, seized and had to be put down on the spot. It was horrific.

@@skidaddle32I knew that name sounded familiar… I saw it a lot at quarter horse congress with the studs

@@OliveDeuce A proposal last year! Wow! What year was that, oh yeah 2023! Too little to late! And who cares if you can't register the horse, that won't stop people from breeding these horses. Lots of unsuspecting people will still buy unregistered horses. "Some changes may happen in the near future". Again too little to late!

@@skidaddle32 See my comment above, too much money is involved.

Clearly, you did not watch the video completely if you are asking these questions, as ALL of your answers are within the video, in great detail actually. But I shall explain it in greater detail to you. 1. Yes he is. I explained that I started him on it 2 weeks ago. 2. A lot of HYPP horses are “asymptomatic” for a long period in their life, and suddenly become symptomatic around 10 years of age. This is actually very common. Or, if a horse has shown symptoms since a young age, a lot of times those symptoms worsen as they age. However, when he was 9 he was sent into training by his old owner to be started under saddle. That very well may have triggered symptoms, but either way I personally believe he would have ended up showing them eventually. He has had several health issues including ulcers, cellulitis, pastern dermatitis, rain rot?, skin scalding, cribbing, severe thrush, and now diagnosed with DSLD so those may all have been stress factors and that was all followed with many different medications and stall rest. But he now lives a very stress free life out in the pasture with friends. He is simply a high maintenance, expensive, pasture pet at this point, living out his retirement. (Even though his riding career didn’t last for a year 🤣) 3. Alfalfa hay is on the DO NOT feed list for HYPP horses and is highly advised against, due to it typically having the highest potassium content as compared to grass hays (although the best thing to do is to test your hay). That is why I feed Timothy grass hay, as that is considered the best option for HYPP horses in terms of potassium %. Additionally, I also soak for 1 hour so it is almost completely potassium free. Purina Omelene is a textured feed that was recommended by my vet. (Textured feeds are also highly recommended over pelleted feeds for HYPP horses). He was getting Purina Strategy Healthy Edge, but she recommended to change to this due to a lower potassium content and high starch content. There is detailed information about this on Purina’s website on HYPP, but Purina uses an oil based molasses which is safe for HYPP. The high starch content can act as karo syrup would. So, during feed time, the high sugar can create an insulin spike and help put potassium back into the cells. This grain as worked well for him so far especially considering he is a moderate keeper. Oats are a good option, which he is also getting. There is also oats in Purina Omelene. 4. It is still unknown today why some horses are more symptomatic than others. Meaning, we still don’t 100% know what is exactly causing these attacks. I have linked sources in the description with the latest research. Explain to me the reason why when my horse has an attack, it seems to affect his respiratory, and he has never tied up or collapsed. But when my friend’s horse Phoneix has an attack, he ties completely until he collapses, and has never been affected in the respiratory aspect. He has also shown symptoms his whole life, while Deuce has not. They both have been fed HYPP safe diets, just not treated with medication. Explain to me why some horses are fed completely incorrect diets for this disease, yet they aren’t as symptomatic (YET). Explain to me why most people do not soak their HYPP horse’s hay (which is the most reliable method for decreasing daily potassium) yet some horses continue to show symptoms and others don’t. Or, explain the horses that are seemingly asymptomatic, but the owners wake up one morning to the horse dead in its stall…That story has repeated itself so many times, and it’s a tragic one that many share. It could have been me also, had I never done my due diligence. The night where I came to the barn and Deuce was having loud respiratory noises, no barametric change had happened, and he did not seem stressed with me. He was just in his stall causally eating his hay, like nothing was happening. You can see as I pull him out of the stall, he was still trying to eat hay off of the floor. The truth is, as I said, the disease is full of uncertainty. You could go to every absolute measure of preventing an attack, and still not be able to manage the disease.

It’s a cribbing collar to prevent a horse from cribbing, which can do a lot of damage to their incisors and cause other health issues.

What about them? Your part of the problem if you think there is a solution.

Forgive my possible ignorance here, but I believe gabapentin is use for pain relief for nerves, which would not apply to HYPP horses. Acetazolamide has many different uses within people and animals, and one of them is actually to treat epileptic seizures.