Connie Burleson - Abscesses and Thrush
John Dowdy:
Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're swinging out into the big state of Texas. We've got Connie Burleson on the podcast this week. Connie, welcome to the Equinety podcast.
Connie Burleson:
Hello.
John Dowdy:
Hi, great to have you on, and I appreciate you taking the time. For those of you tuning in, this is another great story of working in combination with a vet and a farrier and adding the old magic Equinety Horse XL, how we've sped up the repairing process. So before we get into that, let's talk about your horse and what you were dealing with, and then how you found our Equinety product and what's happening today, but let's start in the beginning.
Connie Burleson:
Okay. I have a horse. I've had him 17 years. For several years now, he's been out on about 40 acres of pasture with some other horses grazing, and he had some issues. We thought it was shoulder issues. He got down last year and almost died, but bounced back somehow. He made it. And it took a long, long time it took months for him to gain some weight back. I recently had found out though that he has lost weight. My guy didn't tell me he was losing weight again, and he had been having trouble for about six weeks without me being told. And when I found out about it, I discussed with someone else I know, I can't live with him, so I found someone else that's a friend who said she'd take him in, and she has a one-acre lot that we decided to put him on because the pasture land was just too much for him to eat enough.
Connie Burleson:
So we moved him right after the 4th of July, and she contacted her vet, sent him a picture of him. He has lost quite a bit of weight. He was down, his hip bone showing really bad, his backbone showing really bad, his ribs. He's really underweight and the vet said put him on alfalfa and Purina Senior, so we did. Farrier assignment a couple of weeks and found out that he was limping really bad, and the farrier says his limp was from bad thrush in his front feet, hooves, and he had two blowouts in his front hooves from abscesses. He worked on those. He told my friend to doctor the thrush every day, and she did. So we got the thrush gone, got shoes on his front feet. He had to repair one front foot and cut out the hoof and fill it to get him walking on it.
Connie Burleson:
Then I found out about Equinety. He's on Equinety for about a month.
John Dowdy:
Now before you get into that, how did you come across the Equinety, or I mean, were you doing some research? Did it just pop up on you on-
Connie Burleson:
Yeah. It popped up on Facebook. I was a little bit skeptical, I'm going to admit because it was Facebook, but I followed-
John Dowdy:
Yeah. Now, come on. You were a lot skeptical weren't you?
Connie Burleson:
Yeah, I was. I've been scammed on Facebook before, so-
John Dowdy:
Haven't we all.
Connie Burleson:
Yeah, but thank goodness I called you. I decided to call about it, call the company about it. And when I spoke to you and you told me that they sold it at a pack and feed store in Weatherford, Texas, which is not far from me because I'm in the Fort Worth area, I said it has to be something to it. It's legit. It's not a scam so I'm going to try it and I ordered it that day and put him on it. So he's been on it a month, and the vet-
John Dowdy:
Now, how quickly-
Connie Burleson:
Go ahead.
John Dowdy:
... did you begin seeing results when you started?
Connie Burleson:
Within two weeks. His feet, he seemed to have a little less limp, but the vet actually saw him and the vet had not seen him from the beginning pictures, and when the vet saw him at about the two-week mark, he couldn't believe it was the horse he had seen the picture of. He was shocked at how much he was already putting some weight on and improving, and-
John Dowdy:
Yeah, because with your vet, you just sent him some pictures initially, right?
Connie Burleson:
Yeah. Yes.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, and then two weeks later, he comes out and actually sees the horse?
Connie Burleson:
Yes, and he remarked several times about how good he was looking, that he did not expect him to look that well. So I just knew then we were on to something right, because he was changing real quick. Also, the farrier came out who's been seeing him every two weeks, and when he came out this last visit with us last weekend, he also noticed a remarkable difference in the two weeks since he had seen him, and his feet, his hoof had grown quite a bit, and he thought that was amazing. And he also had a secondary farrier come out with him, because he was a bad boy when he was getting his feet done. They had to medicate him a little bit to get him to calm down, and he was shocked at how he looked, because he had shown him pictures of him. He didn't think he would be that way.
John Dowdy:
Wow.
Connie Burleson:
Yeah, and then my friend, she saved them the other Sunday and sent me a picture. And I've been telling her since he got there, he's a black horse, but he has been a sandy red, light sandy red color almost all over since he got there. His coat was really bad and she couldn't believe he was a black horse. He's now black. He's black again.
John Dowdy:
And this is in 30 days.
Connie Burleson:
Yes.
John Dowdy:
Yeah.
Connie Burleson:
Yeah. He's very black now. He's getting to be my good old boy now.
John Dowdy:
Right. Now, I'll jump in here so for those tuning in for the first time, and maybe you're just learning about this Equinety product, we're specifically talking about Equinety Horse XL, which is 100% pure amino acids. There's no fillers, sugars, or starches. And the amino acids are specifically formulated to stimulate the pituitary gland, which is the master gland in the body, and that's what releases the necessary hormones, which the body then sends to the problem areas.
John Dowdy:
So in this case, we're talking about abscesses, thrush, lack of nutrition, so it really helped put the weight back on. Now what's interesting about this product, it doesn't fall into the category as a weight gain product. It's not a hoof product. It's not a joint product. It's not a shiny coat or healthy coat product. It's a product specifically formulated to give the body what it needs so the body can help repair itself wherever those things need to happen.
John Dowdy:
So let me ask you this question, Connie. If we recap what happened, your horse was out on 40 acres thereabout for quite a while, went down, lost a bunch of weight. You're thinking it was a shoulder issue. The horse bounces back from that, and then it happens again, and so then you decide to bring the horse into a more manageable area. So you put him on one acre so you could get him nourished back to health.
Connie Burleson:
Yes.
John Dowdy:
So but then you're finding out, well, it wasn't the shoulder, it was abscesses, some thrush, not to mention the malnutrition, because he couldn't graze. Do you feel that the horse would have bounced back without the Equinety in a 30-day period, or do you feel that adding the product really helps speed everything up?
Connie Burleson:
Oh, no. I don't think he would have bounced back as well at all. Yeah, the Equinety product I think totally contributed to it because he's... like the saying it didn't just- it's pinpointed numerous things in him. He, in fact, I didn't even mention the fact that the farrier thought at first he might be foundering, had the beginnings of that happening and no front, no feet and legs. And he didn't see that the next time he saw him after he was on the Equinety.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. A lot of feedback that we receive is with foundered horses and how this product really helps thicken the souls and all the way around helps promote faster, healthier hoof growth, which gives the farrier more to work within a shorter amount of time. So we hear that very, very often, and also based on your 30-day transformation and you sent me these pictures and I didn't even think it was the same horse, but from a dull sandy red kind of a coat to now black all within 30 days it's like, how is that even possible? But we see this all the time, but it also goes to show you that, what this product is doing is giving the horse what it needs to help repair from the inside out. So typically within a 30-day period, a lot of people do notice a softer shinier coat, they're filling out, helps with topline. And of course, you really begin seeing the healthier hoof growth within the 30-day mark, typically more towards a six-week mark, but you'll start noticing some hoof changes within 30 days, which is what your farrier is noticing.
Connie Burleson:
Right. Well, and my vet, I mean, my vet summed it up. He couldn't believe he was seeing the same horse either, and that's from a veterinarian, so...
John Dowdy:
Right. Yep. And they see a lot.
Connie Burleson:
Yeah.
John Dowdy:
Awesome. Well, I tell you what, if there's anybody tuning in that might be on the fence or they may have seen our ads, which we run a lot of ads on Facebook and they might be even more skeptical than you, which might be hard to believe.
Connie Burleson:
Yeah, I was pretty skeptical.
John Dowdy:
Well, is there anything that you could tell them, maybe get them off the fence that you haven't already talked about? Just letting them know to... If they're dealing-
Connie Burleson:
I say, well, I say buy it. It's not an expensive product. You average it out. It lasted what, it's going to last you for about three months.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, it's a dollar a day.
Connie Burleson:
Non-expensive to try and you're not going to hurt. My vet, read the ingredients. He said use it. And I have seen such changes. Some are minor at the very beginning, but you just see them in two weeks. And now it's the 30-week mark, I mean, four-week mark. I'm really seeing the changes and I'm going to keep him on it. I say, buy it. Don't worry about it not being a good product, because it is.
John Dowdy:
Yeah, that's awesome. And this is one of the reasons why we do this podcast, because it gives a perspective from people around the country and different scenarios that they're dealing. And a lot of times people have tried so many other things that didn't work or work for a little while and then stopped working. And some of the extreme cases where they were potentially having to look at making that final decision for their horse and now they're riding their horse again. So, I mean, I tell people all the time, this is not a miracle supplement, but it sure has done some miraculous things.
Connie Burleson:
Well, it's not, how do I put it? It's difficult to see your horse or animals suffer. And he was definitely suffering. His limping was bad. He was walking so slow and moving so slow and that second time the farrier saw him and slapped him on the butt and turned him loose. He ran. And that's the first time we've seen him run and to see him not suffering and this contributing to that factor. Like I said, I'll be keeping him on it. I believe in the product.
John Dowdy:
Yeah. That's great. Awesome. Well, Connie Burleson out of Texas, I want to thank you so much for taking the time to share your story here on the Equinety podcast.
Connie Burleson:
You're welcome. I appreciate you inviting me.
John Dowdy:
You bet. Thanks so much.
Connie Burleson:
Bye-bye.
John Dowdy:
All right, bye-bye.
