Christy Langdon Parker - Breeding Farm
John Dowdy:
Hello, and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We've got a special podcast for you this week. We're swinging up into North Carolina, Langdon Farms Breeding. We've got Christy Langdon-Parker on the call. Christy, welcome to the Equinety podcast.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Hello. How are y'all?
John Dowdy:
Doing very well. I know you are super busy, and so I really appreciate you taking the time to talk about your breeding facility and the things that go along with that, some of the challenges that you've endured through the years. We'll talk about how you came across our Equinety product and how that's changed your business in such a massive way.
But first, let's go back to the beginning. How long have you been in the breeding business?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
I've been in the breeding business for six years now.
John Dowdy:
Okay. And is it studs, broodmares, or both? Or what do you have going on there?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
We have stallions. We have broodmares. We do weanlings, yearlings, and two-year-olds.
John Dowdy:
All right. So, an all-encompassing operation.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yes, sir.
John Dowdy:
So, at any one time, how many horses do you have on the farm?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
During breeding season, usually 150-ish. Off-season, we usually still run about 70.
John Dowdy:
Wow. That's quite an operation, so really no room for vacations.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
No, not really.
John Dowdy:
So, being in this for six years, give us an idea of what a typical day is like on a breeding farm. For those people who have never been to a breeding farm, give us what it's like in a day on a breeding farm.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
So, a lot of times, we ship Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. So Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays, we schedule for our stallions unless we do on-farm horses. And then we run usually about 30 mares a day through, just checking, teasing, all that stuff, doing all the breeding, so it's pretty busy work.
And we also foal out, so we're up a lot during the middle of the night. But it's the fun time of the season because it's always a joy to have a new little baby come out.
John Dowdy:
Now, and for those who don't know, when you're saying ship out, what does that mean?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
We ship cooled-ship semen from the stallions all over. We'll have people call in and want to breed to that stallion, so we process and we ship cool-ship semen.
John Dowdy:
So, you ship it out to them, and then they can artificially inseminate it that way.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Inseminate their mare. Yes, sir.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. So, what is the prime age of horses for breeding, typically?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Between five, sometimes they'll go to 19 and 20s, but now we have where you can do embryos, so that makes it easier for those older mares if they're too old to carry. That's a judgment thing according onto the horse.
John Dowdy:
So, what are some of the challenges with dealing with breeding horses as they start aging? What are some of the challenges that you have where they're not as potent, we'll say, or as effective in the breeding realm?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yeah. Well, sometimes they're not as fertile. Sometimes they've got cysts. Sometimes their uterus can be old, basically, very common to an older woman. So, you can have certain things like that that can give you a little bit of a problem. Sometimes they don't. It's just according to that mare.
John Dowdy:
Okay. And then, when you're looking at, for a stallion, semen count, what is an optimal count for those that this is the first time they're hearing about all this stuff? What are you typically looking at for, like, primetime, where you can almost guarantee that things are going to happen?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
You at least want 200 million per milliliter and above. I really, personally, like a billion, but sometimes you have them studs that don't do that. Most of our studs now, per what we run, they run a little higher because of the Equinety product. They run higher now, but most of the studs, you want them over 200 million per milliliter.
John Dowdy:
Okay. Yeah, and we're going to get into how the Equinety Horse XL has dramatically changed your breeding business. But just before we get into that, I want to lay out just a couple other little things. These horses really have to be in their tip-top shape, really. Tell us about that, and maybe some of the challenges with joint problems or they just can't recover. What kind of problems does that pose trying to breed?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
When you don't have a healthy horse, you most time don't have healthy everything else. When they hurt in the joints or stuff, it will knock their semen count down. When they are not fit and they're not like an athlete, it can knock their semen count down. So, there's a lot that goes into all of that to make that horse very healthy. It's not, they just sit there and they breed. They need the activity. They need to be healthy in their joints because it is a job for them, basically.
John Dowdy:
Yes. So, before coming across our product and you would have a horse that wasn't recovering as fast, or maybe there's some joint issues, what would you, typically, have to do with that horse?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
We went through where you'd try... You can try joint supplements. You can try Adequan Legend. You can inject if you need to, if you have the vet come out and x-ray, and that's what they need. It would be more of a maintenance thing where you would have to do more maintenance, basically.
John Dowdy:
And even getting into ulcer issues with preventative ulcer meds and things like that?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yes, before using the product, I always had to use ulcer meds just because you don't want them to stress about anything. You want them to be very comfortable with everything. I would do it as a preventative.
One reason is because I had Arabians also, which are a little stressy, and it would just cause me not to have a problem because I want these horses to be happy and healthy.
John Dowdy:
Right. So, when you had a horse that was in a situation where maybe there were some ulcer things going on or some joint issues or whatever the case might be, at the end of the day, this is costing you money because you're going to have to put the horse aside a little bit to let them recover. Am I on the right track there?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Or you're going to have to pinch her cheeks when you're shipping semen. It might not've been good, one or the other.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, yeah.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
So, yes, it causes you a little stress, what I say.
John Dowdy:
Yep, no, that would make sense. That would make sense.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
And then, you have to go on the level of giving them a anti-inflammatory, which is not good for the belly. So, it's a vicious cycle there when you're trying to make something feel better, but you might be creating something else when you use other products.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. So, really to sum it up, being in the breeding business, that's what, obviously, your business is. You've got to keep the horses healthy, happy, in tip-top shape. And when things start going wrong, if you're trying to put band-aids, whether that be medications or joint injections or whatever the case is, now you start running a risk. Your stress level goes up, and, of course, theirs are up, then you may not breed, or it may not have a closer to 100...
Christy Langdon-Parker:
A good season.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, exactly. That's what I was looking for.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Right.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. So, tell us a little bit about how you... which this'll be quick, I guess. You found our product on Facebook.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yes.
John Dowdy:
And we're specifically talking about the Equinety Horse XL, which... By the way, we're talking to Christy Langdon-Parker out of North Carolina with Langdon Farms Breeding. And the Equinety Horse XL's 100% pure amino acids. And what it's specifically designed to do is give the body what it needs to release the necessary hormones, which then the horse can send its own hormones to the problem areas. So, this is why it helps in so many ways.
And so, Christy, when you first came across our product, do you remember what your initial thoughts were? You're thinking, "Well, hey, that might work for my horses." Or do you remember what went through your head?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
I had a old gelding that was a Cushing's gelding, and he would act very laminitic, but we would x-ray him and everything would be clean, and it was just this weird problem that nobody could find. We kept doing different stuff, trying to get him sound, changing shoes. And I would come by the product, and I was reading something on it, and I said, "Well, I'm going to just try it." And that's how I come about.
John Dowdy:
So, that was the first horse you put it on?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
That was the first horse I put it on. And then, from there, he got sound. He's a little ranch horse now and riding for kids and doing good.
John Dowdy:
How long ago was this?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
He's been on it for... Oh, when did I start using it? I've been on it for...
John Dowdy:
[crosstalk 00:10:12].
Christy Langdon-Parker:
How long? A year and a half?
John Dowdy:
Shoot, I don't know. I'd have to look. It's been [crosstalk 00:10:16].
Christy Langdon-Parker:
I think I've been on it longer than that.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, I think so. Maybe close to three years.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yeah. So, I put him on it first and he got good. And then I had another mare that I put on it that had a bad ankle and she was pregnant, and I put her on it and she, all of a sudden, was super sound, and you couldn't even see her limping anymore, and it was an old injury.
John Dowdy:
Wow.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
That was the second one I put on.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. Now, I remember when I first spoke to you, you had a little stallion that, from the time you collected to go look at it under the microscope, I guess is how you do that, there was nothing. It was all dead.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yes.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. So, tell us about that. And for those, again, tuning in that are just learning about this, is this how you typically test or see what's going on there to look at your count? Just describe that for us.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
So, when we collect those stallions, we take it in and put it in a microscope, and we run it through a [centometer 00:00:11:26], and it'll tell you your count. And then you can judge your percentage on your semen quality, what your percent is of dead and alive, basically. And you want them to be more alive than dead, of course.
John Dowdy:
Yes.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
So, we would collect him and it was his first year, so you've got some of that stuff going on, too. But we collected him for 30 days, and he was just full of dead semen. And he was in tip-top shape, he was healthy. There was no real issues, nothing that we could see.
So, I talked the owners into putting him on the Equinety, and we put him on for 30 days and didn't collect him. And they brought him back to me, and we collected him in them 30 days, and we got up to where we were... I want to say close to 200 million per milliliter at that point, which is close to being okay.
John Dowdy:
Right.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
I think we were like 180 or something like that. After that, we kept collecting him, and we just kept jumping. And within 60 days, we were up to 300 million per milliliter. We bred the mares and the mares caught. And everything's great, and he's been great since then, but he stays on the Equinety.
John Dowdy:
Wow. Now, have you ever seen anything like this before where the horse looks tip-top shape, they look fine, but everything's just dead and you just can't do anything with them? Have you run across that before?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
You see it sometimes on the younger studs because you have to worry... Like, the stallions, you don't want them where they're cranked up all the time or they're seeing mares and they're screaming all day because they can kill it off themselves. And that was the problem with that horse, is none of that was happening, so there was no real reason why he was not throwing good semen besides something wasn't right.
And it helped him actually get his system right, is how I'm looking at it with the Equinety. It seems to help get their system right, and everything goes like it's supposed to go. It just worked for him.
And I had one other one that was low sperm count and he does really well on it. He shipped well last year and got all his mares pregnant.
So, we've had a couple of different studs that no real reason why, but we'd put them on the Equinety and it work.
John Dowdy:
What were the ages of these other ones?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
The one was four and the one is six.
John Dowdy:
Okay, very interesting. So have you had any experience with older stallions?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
My older stallion, which has really good semen already, I put him on it just for his joints and everything, and he was a hard keeper. He finally is not eating a load of grain and actually staying fat and healthy and does not look like a 20-something-year-old.
But his semen count went up. He was in the 300, 350 concentration range, and he went all the way up... When I started him on it two years ago, he went all the way up to the 700s and would have 85% motility, which means 85% alive. It was extreme.
John Dowdy:
And how old?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
He's 21 this year.
John Dowdy:
21? So, he jumped-
Christy Langdon-Parker:
He's 21 this year.
John Dowdy:
Wow.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
He jumped 400.
John Dowdy:
Holy smokes. That's probably something you don't see every day.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
No, no.
John Dowdy:
Unless you're using Equinety.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yes.
John Dowdy:
Now, you briefly mentioned in there, you were able to cut his grain. What is your typical feed program, and how is this product, the Equinety Horse XL, affected your feeding program?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
So, I feed a 12/10 grain. 12 protein, 10 fat. I get it specially mixed with all my electrolytes and everything in it. I do not like to feed a load of grain if I can help it.
Example of the old horse, I was feeding him six pounds twice a day, which was a lot of grain, and he still wouldn't get that fat blossom look where they're not fat, but they look very healthy. He would not get that look. He always looked streamlined.
Since I put him on the Equinety, I am down to three pounds for twice a day, which is a lot of grain cut down.
John Dowdy:
Right, no doubt.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
So, a lot of our breeding studs are not having to... A lot of farms will have to feed them six pounds of grain twice a day because they're working, they're breeding all the time. My stallions are chunky monkeys, and maybe some of them will get three pounds twice a day. Some of them will get two and a half pounds.
I feed them hay all day long, but they all get the Equinety. And then I was able to cut their grain rations where it's not so high because they're working, but they've still got enough energy.
So, that comes from the cell regenerate, and ever all of that is, it just helps them. They come back. They feel good. They don't have any issues.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, and it's very common. We hear that a lot with high performance horses to rescue horses, and pretty well anything in between. Because what the amino acids in the Equinety Horse XL are doing, again, are giving the body what it needs to help balance itself.
And that's probably one of the best descriptions. It helps to balance from the inside out at the cellular level. How many horses would you say that you have on product altogether?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
So, when all the studs are here, I'll have about 12 to 14 stallions, and they will all be on it. They're on it now at home. I send it home with them. I don't want them going off. They've got to stay on it. That is one thing I have my clients do. They have to stay on it.
John Dowdy:
Yep.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
So, I'll have probably 12 stallions. And then I have... Well, I've probably got 20 for when I go to mares, and certain mares and all that... I wish I could give it to everybody.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, well, 130, 40's a lot.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
I wish you could give it to everybody, but my older mares... Anything I'll give it to if I run into a problem, and I'll just keep them on it.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. Let's talk about the mares for a bit because you had mentioned to me before that you looked out there, and there's a pasture full of mares, which haven't been able to be bred because they're older. So, you put them all on product. Now, how many were out there in the field?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
I think I had five mares in that field that year. One was my older mare, and then I had some clients' older mares.
John Dowdy:
So you put them all on product, and then what happened?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Everybody had February babies. We had put them on their lights and everybody had February babies. They all had the Equilume mask on and all had February babies.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. So, what was the time that you had them on... From the time they were in the field to... How much time went by that they were on product before they were bred?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
I want to say we started them in November that year. And then, we bred on them in March. So, it was probably November, December. When we put the mask on, we started them on it.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, and what is the breeding season, for those who don't know?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
We start breeding February 1st, and we breed to July 1st.
John Dowdy:
Gotcha. Yeah. That is awesome. So, for those who may be tuning in that have brood mares, this is, obviously, good for them, or possibly good news for them, that you put these older mares on and they were all bred.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Right.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. Anything else that you've noticed with your stallions, overall?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
I had one other stallion that had a torn meniscus and come to me to breed because he couldn't ride. He had a month off before that. Come here. I put him on the Equinety. I would say within 30 days, because he come in January. I started working him within 30 days. He would look sounder, looked like he wasn't lame anymore. Well, he stayed here six months. We bred him all year and he stayed sound all year.
And when the vet checked him to go back to ride, he was clean. The meniscus was healed, and he's back showing and winning in the rookie professional.
John Dowdy:
That's pretty awesome. Yeah, we've had a lot of stories like this with our podcast, which is at teamequinety.com. It's also on iTunes and several other platforms, but with the podcast, it was a way... We'd get phone calls all the time with people calling or emailing and saying, "Hey, let me tell you what this product did for my horse." And it is a wide variety of things, from soft tissue repair to founder to a better hoof quality to ulcer issues to... Top line, you name it.
And, of course, now we get to add breeding facility in here, which is pretty awesome. So again, the product is helping to give the body what it needs to repair itself from a cellular level.
And, of course, I always tell people it's not a miracle supplement, but it sure has done some miraculous things. And it seems to be the missing puzzle piece to a lot of the things that the horses are needing. We've been on the market now almost seven years, so it's pretty amazing to hear these stories.
Now, if there's anybody tuning in to this podcast that might be in the breeding business, is there anything that you would have to say to them, maybe, to get them to try the product for themselves?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
It makes your life way easier. It makes your life way easier, and it makes your expense costs go down when you're in the grand scheme of things, because you try it on those harder mares, and if all you've got to do is give them a scoop of Equinety today, I would prefer that than trying three times and racking your brain, "Why's my mare not catching?" when it can be something so simple.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. And the neat thing with the Equinety product... Did you find when you opened this little tub, which is 1.3 pounds, it's half the size of a Folgers coffee can. It's $100. You've got a 100 servings in there. What did you think of that little tiny scoop, which is about like a teaspoon?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
It's fine for me. Yeah, it's fine for me. It's easy. I mean, it's easy. It's one little scoop, and I've not had anybody turn their nose up at it. Most of my horses are picky, but they can't pick it out, so they eat it really well. My one stud horse is really picky, and he's not picky about it.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, let me ask you this question, which I do not know the answer to. But in years past, when you go through a breeding season compared to now, since you've been using the product, is there a percentage of horses that wouldn't catch before compared to the last couple of seasons as you've been using the Equinety? Has that increased on the ones that catch?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yes. I'll say we have a really good success rate most of the time. But yes, it has helped me on those hard mares. It's one more added thing that helps you out.
So, yes, when you're catching them harder mares, of course, your percentage rate goes up. So, yes, it helps you in that manner.
John Dowdy:
Nice. And then, in regards to when you're shipping from a stud, have you found that everything arrives in better condition because there's more swimmers, so to speak?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yes. I will say, our boys this year, we had a great year. The one stallion, Steady Smoking Gun, he shipped probably... Well, he probably bred 75 mares. Everyone we shipped but one caught. That's a lot of mares.
I had people from vet offices calling me going, "This is the best semen I've ever seen in my life, and you had really good semen."
But when he first come, he had really good semen, but it just made it better. He just would get more.
Of course, you run at a little lower level, and then when you put them on that Equinety, it'll jump their semen count up, and it just is good, viable semen. So he had a really good year.
All my other boys had a really good year as far as semen counts, and we actually had a very successful year, so I have to owe some of it to the Equinety because it does make my boys and my girls better.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, I would agree with that.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yeah, and I'm ready to try the other product, too.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, the Ultimate OEC. We just came out with that this year. You actually just started one of your boys on it yesterday, I think it was.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Right.
John Dowdy:
And the Ultimate OEC is something we brought out in March of this year. Dr. Zach Bruggen out of Arkansas had called us up several years ago and helped us to get this thing to market.
And so what it is, it's a flaxseed-based, Omega-3 oil with 1,000 IUs of natural vitamin E and colloidal silver all in one. So, it serves as a really powerful antioxidant, which helps reduce inflammation. And it's best used in combination with the amino acids because the amino acids are giving the body what it needs to help repair at a cellular level. And so, when you add the Ultimate OEC, it helps gives those repaired cells some nutrition, which they desperately need, so it's a great combination.
So, it'll be interesting. Maybe we can do another podcast down the road after you've been on the Ultimate OEC in combination with the amino acids, maybe after breeding season or something, and give us an update on that.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yeah. We'll probably put everybody... Everybody comes back in in January, so I'm going to probably put all the boys on it just because all that's good for their joints, and it's just going to make them better.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. Well, I tell ya with just the success that you've talked about just by adding the Equinety Horse XL, if it could get any better by adding the Ultimate OEC, that's going to be pretty amazing.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Right. That will be pretty neat.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. So, one last question here. Since you've been using the product, and you had mentioned this, being able to cut back on their grain.
Oh, by the way... Well, I'll ask another question. You had talked about, or I had brought up, preventative ulcer medications. Are you still having to use those types of things or joint supplements or other things? Or are you just using the Equinety Horse XL?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Nope, just the Equinety.
John Dowdy:
Wow.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Nope. I used to go through... Purina Outlast was my friend for a long time, and I don't have to go buy it anymore, which is awesome.
John Dowdy:
Yeah.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
So, nope. I only use the Equinety, and now I'm going to use the new product for more of the Omegas, basically. So, that's all I'm going to use.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. That's great. Now, is there a rough number that you could give in the amount of dollars saved just with not having to use other supplements, medications, being able to reduce the amount of feed? Would it be in the 20 to 40% range or is that higher?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yeah, at least 20, 30% range, as far as on the grain, I would say.
John Dowdy:
Wow.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yeah. And the joint supplements, because if you think about it, I would spend on a 50-pound bag of ulcer meds, I think that was $30. And if you've got several horses on it, that don't last very long because you were having to feed... I can't remember exactly what the amount was, but you were feeding a cup of it a day, so at least a pound.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. Well, I think when you look at the whole combination and this whole story of, one, being able to cut back on the grain, two, being able to cut back on medications, other supplements. And, again, this is what's worked specifically for you, and we're just trying to get the information out, but we've seen this over and over and over.
Then you take into account that you're able to get more mares to catch, your stallions are in better shape. Their counts are much higher, even though some of these had high counts anyways, and now they're even higher than what they ever were just by adding this product. That has to-
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Their fitness and their hair coat's gorgeous. That's the other thing about them, is I notice, once you put them on it, they...
I had one come in to me that had been turned out for months, so he had a lot of hair. And I stuck him on it, and he come out dappled. Their hair coat's just gorgeous.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. And the other thing I want to mention, too. Not... Well, let me finish my thought here. Because you add all these things up, and you're getting more mares to catch, your studs are in better condition. Overall, I'm assuming it just makes your breeding facility much better. I don't know if you can charge more for this or whatever, but if you have a higher catch rate, you probably get more business that way, depending on who the stud is and things like that.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Right.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. But yeah, that is pretty darn awesome, and all from this little scoop of Equinety Horse XL.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yep.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. Wow. Is there anything else that you'd like to add? You're welcome to give a website, phone number, if anybody wants to contact you about breeding or anything like that. If you want to do that, feel free to do so.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
My website's Langdonfarmsbreeding.com.
John Dowdy:
Okay. They can just go there and get in touch with you through the web page.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yep, you can can go get in touch with me through that. You can see all the studs here. You'll see the facility, what we do.
I know I have more stories because I had so many that I've used this product on because I remember calling you right after. I'm like, "This is a miracle worker. I don't know what this is."
John Dowdy:
Yeah. We've got time. There's no time limit I set to these. But yeah, I'm open to hearing it because I'm sure the more stories that we get out there, it helps give other people hope if they're running through a similar situation.
I know you had mentioned one of your horses had Cushing's, and how has that horse taken to the product and what changes have you seen since adding the product to the Cushing's horse?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
He is not on Cushing's meds. He is just on the Equinety. He's sound. He rides little kids around.
John Dowdy:
Wow.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yep. He's doing good. To where he was really, he was such a nice horse because he was a babysitter, and we just could not figure out. He was a headache because we could not figure out what was going on with him.
And, for whatever reason, that's what works for him. We did the Equinety, and I was like, "Well, let's try it," and it worked.
Then I called you about another one, I think, after that. And I just got hooked on it and started trying it on different things, and it worked amazingly.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. You know what's so unique about the product? Because, again, we're giving the body what it needs to release its own hormones. So, you could have 50 horses with 50 different things going on, and because the body is sending its own hormones to its own problem areas, that's why it's customizing to each horse's needs.
So, horses that have thin soles, it will help thicken the soles and make for all-around better hooves. It helps with the joints.
Going back to your Cushing's horse story, if your horse is on any medications or other supplements, what we always recommend is not changing anything you're doing and just add this to it. And that way, you know it's the only thing that you've changed.
And then, typically, over the next couple of weeks to 30 days, it might go longer than that, but you'll start noticing changes. And it's at that point, you can decide whether to reduce or sometimes stop using other things.
We don't ever recommend stopping anything and adding this. We just say, "Hey, add this to it." Because it's amino acids. They're the building blocks of protein.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
And I would notice some things in a week on some of them. I would start noticing a difference in a week.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, that's incredible.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
So the 30-60 day is probably more of the thing, but when I'd start putting them on it, I noticed something in a week that they were better and then they'd get better. And then by 30 days, you don't see it anymore, which is pretty amazing.
John Dowdy:
Sure. Now, with your studs, have you noticed as far as... Talk about the recovery time, maybe more stamina, were you able to breed them more often than years before? Tell us about that.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Their stamina was really good this year. I still stick to my Monday, Wednesday, Friday, unless I get in a jam. And we had to, a couple of times this year per the COVID, because as you know how everybody was kind of in a difference with the shipping and stuff, so I tried to work with people a little more.
So I did collect that one stallion back to back and he would stay good, which is good for a stallion. You need to give them a little break. But my boys did good this year. They never went down. Usually the end of the year, when you're getting to July, we are hot here. My stallions still stayed good. It was like nothing changed.
John Dowdy:
Wow.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
It was like nothing changed.
John Dowdy:
Then compared to years past, it was getting kind of iffy?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Years past, when they would haul the Arabians over here, they would get super hot. We'd try to do everything quick because you didn't want them to kill it off. But it was so hot here, and we bred to July 15th that year.
And last year, only thing I changed was I only went to July 1st for the stallion, but it didn't seem to bother my boys going to July 1st this year. They were fine. We just decided to change that to make it better for them because we do get really hot here.
John Dowdy:
Sure. Yeah.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
All my boys never looked like they went through breeding season. You can have studs come and they're ribby, and they look like they bred all year.
My boys looked like they'd been on vacation, but they were fit. They did not look like they bred all year. They looked really good.
John Dowdy:
Wow. That's pretty awesome. Yep. Well, I think anybody tuning in to this, if that doesn't give you some inspiration, I don't know what would, especially being in the breeding business, but that's my humble opinion.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Yes.
John Dowdy:
Awesome. Christy, was there anything else that you want to put out here for anybody or should we sign off?
Christy Langdon-Parker:
I think that's it.
John Dowdy:
All right. Well, Christy-
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Maybe we'll do another one when I use the other products up.
John Dowdy:
Yes, I would love to do a followup.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
I'm excited about that.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. Maybe in the summer after breeding season next year, we'll get your updates, adding the OEC to it. That's awesome. So, all right.
Well, Christy Langdon-Parker out of North Carolina with Langdon Farms Breeding, thank you so much for taking the time to share your stories here on the Equinety podcast.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
All right. Thank you.
John Dowdy:
All right. Thanks. Bye-bye.
Christy Langdon-Parker:
Bye.
