Wendy Goeden – Mystery Lameness – Colt Development – Senior Horse
John:
Hello and welcome to this week's Equinety podcast. We're swinging up into Pennsylvania. We've got [Wendy Gaydon 00:00:07] on the call this week. Wendy, welcome to the Equinety podcast.
Wendy Gaydon:
Thank you John for having me on. I really appreciate you letting me get my story out there.
John:
Absolutely. It is an honor as always. We're always excited to have these stories and this one is... I think it's going to be great in a lot of different ways, because we're going to talk about three different horses, three different stages of life. We've got a colt. We're going to talk about how it's helped with development, your older senior horse, how it's helped with this horse, and then your great barrel horse, which had some crazy mystery lameness issues going on. So where would you like to start? I'll let you decide which one we want to talk about first.
Wendy Gaydon:
Wow. We can sure talk about my good barrel horse. [crosstalk 00:00:55]. She was the reason I found it in the first place.
John:
Yeah, okay. All right. Let's start with your barrel horse. How old is your barrel horse at the time when you started having the issues? Give us a little background on your horse there and then how you found our product.
Wendy Gaydon:
Well, when I first got her, she was a 10-year-old broodmare. Basically she was supposed to have been broke, but we found out she really wasn't, so we ended up breaking her. I started her on barrels. She was 10 years old when all this started. I was running her and she was doing pretty good. She was doing pretty good. She won me a saddle the first year I was running her in the South Dakota NBHA, I won the 5D championship there. For her first year for four months of running she did really well. And then we got into the next year and I was running her hard, and I was signed up to go to the ALL IN Barrel Race out in Las Vegas and halfway through the year, she just went lame. She went lame. She had on her right side, she would limp on her hind legs.
And so I went through the motions, all the vets, three vets, nobody could determine what happened. Nobody can determine anything that was wrong. She wasn't responding to any injections. They injected her shoulders because they thought that was maybe what it was, she was overcompensating for something in her shoulders with her hind end so it was making her sore. They did her hocks. They blocked stifles. They injected SIs. We did everything and she was still lame. It helped a little and it would take a little of the lameness away, but she was still lame. She was off. I couldn't run her. I'm not into drugging my horse up to run to make her be comfortable just so I want to run her. So basically I started looking for something else. The vet said they couldn't figure it out. We had ultrasounds. I had everything. Nobody could figure it out. We did x-rays, we did everything. There was nothing showing. We didn't know what it was.
John:
About how much money, or you might not want to reveal that, were you in?
Wendy Gaydon:
Oh my goodness. I don't know. It was a few thousand dollars. Let's put it that way, because I went to chiropractors, I went to massage therapists. I had the [MagnaWave 00:03:34], the [inaudible 00:03:36]. I did everything for her because I was supposed to be going to Vegas in December. And this is, we're in June, and I'm like, "Oh my Lord, how can I have her healthy enough to even run?"
And so, I mean, one vet even told me I should have her hips operated on because they just couldn't figure anything out. It had to be her hip. And so she might need surgery. And then it's a 50/50 chance if she's ever going to run again after that. That's when I started looking. I saw an ad one day on Facebook and went to the website, looked at it, did the research, looked at the [pod 00:04:15], looked at all the different... What do I want to say here?
John:
The podcast and different testimonials and things?
Wendy Gaydon:
Yeah. The different testimonials with different podcasts and the videos of the horses that I've seen the lame horses. And then they're like, "This is two weeks, this is a month." And so basically about that time, I'm like, "Well, I've already put all this money into her, nothing from nothing leaves nothing. So let's try it."
I did. I got a sample, I got the sample, the two week sample and I started her on it. In two weeks, she was actually not lame anymore. I mean, she was still off and she was still not sound, but you couldn't really, and if you didn't know she was hurt or lame, you wouldn't have been able to tell she was. I knew she was so I could see it. But I just decided after that, I'm like, "Wow, I don't know what this is, but I'm going to..." That's when I got the big tub and had her on it and by... When was it? I'm thinking by September, she'd been off. I mean, she'd been off from June to September. And so I started riding her again in September thinking, "December, I got to be in Vegas." I didn't have another horse. I didn't have another horse at that time that I could just throw in the trailer and pay to run this race. So I started slow working her again and she come back stronger than ever.
We went to the NBHA finals the next year and I won the 3D State Championships on her in that year. The next year we were running 1D times, so I was in the 1 and 2D at the NBHA State Championship for South Dakota. So I mean, it's an amazing product. I can't believe what it did for her. You guys actually gave me my horseback because I didn't have one at that time.
John:
Oh, that is incredible. I mean, so we're talking from as lame as you could get, injected everywhere, three vets, two chiropractors, a massage therapist and a Partridge in a pear tree, couldn't figure out-
Wendy Gaydon:
Basically, yep.
John:
And then even possibly recommending hip surgery because, well, don't know what's going on specifically. And so you order a two week sample of the Equinety Horse XL and you notice changes in that two weeks.
Wendy Gaydon:
Oh, in two weeks, yeah. I mean, you could lunge her and she would be lame, lame, lame. After the two weeks, you could see a little, but nothing like she was. I was thinking, "Man, if I can see that in two weeks, I'm going to put her on this stuff." To this day, she's still on it. To this day, I have never taken her off of it and I won't ever. It's just amazing. This horse is so special to me. I mean, she's part of my family. She could come in my bedroom and sleep in my room. That's how I feel about this mare. And so yeah.
John:
Yeah. Well, for those who are tuning in for the first time, this is not a miracle supplement. I will throw that out there. Although you'd scratch your head sometimes and wonder about that. But what it is, it's 100% pure amino acids that are specifically formulated to give the body what it needs to release its own hormones that are specific for repair. So when you can do that, you're allowing the body to release its own repairing hormones. And then the body is able to send those to its own problem areas. So we have a lot of cases when we're talking about mystery lameness issues and where people have tried all kinds of different things and people are scratching their heads, and that's one of the reasons why we started this podcast. We were hearing so many of these types of stories and we thought, "Well, this would be a great way to get this out."
With the Equinety Horse XL, there is no fillers, no sugars, no starches. And there's no loading dose. A serving size is 5.2 grams, which is about a teaspoon and just put that right in their feed. It starts working in 24 hours. Although, Wendy, you noticed changes in less than two weeks and a lot of people do. I would say the vast majority, upper 90 percentiles are seeing changes in 30 days or less. That can go beyond that depending on what's going on with the horse. I mean, there's no way to really know, but I'd say the vast majority are 30 days or less. That's pretty incredible that story. You've got your horse back, you're running better ever. With a possible massive surgery and a pasture ornament to now doing what you were wanting to do all along anyways, which is run barrels.
Wendy Gaydon:
Yeah, I'm so thankful for this. I'm so thankful I tried it. I don't actually know what I would have done if I hadn't found it. I probably would have ended up breeding her and never ridden her again. And then she would still be in pain, so I wouldn't like that either. [crosstalk 00:09:28].
John:
Have you had any comments from the vets, chiropractors, or massage therapists, have they seen this horse since then?
Wendy Gaydon:
I do have a vet that he is a vet and a chiropractor and he couldn't believe it. I mean, he's a vet that he's at a lot of the big races. He does a lot of chiropractors on the big barrel horses and stuff like that. So yeah, he couldn't believe it because, I mean, he's got videos. He even went as far as to call Kansas state, Iowa state, Minnesota state, the big equine programs for the colleges where he came from or where he went to. He had people looking at videos of her and he couldn't get... He's still to this day, he's just like, "I don't know what it did, but I'm sure glad you found it."
John:
Yeah, that's pretty amazing. I will agree with that. Okay. So let's go to the next horse. We've got a senior horse and a colt. Which one did you use the product on next and why?
Wendy Gaydon:
I used it on my senior horse because he was 21 and he loved to run. He loved his job. He liked to run barrels. He loved his poles. And so when I got my mare, she was my barrel horse. And so I kept him for poles. He ended up, I believe, they had diagnosed him with kissing spine, which is painful, especially when you got him saddled. I was doing everything right for his... As far as to get that done, he needed to probably have surgery on it. But I knew I was going to be retiring him. So I kept him blanketed [inaudible 00:11:20] and kept the saddles right on him, and just started Equinety. It was just amazing how he went from wanting to bite you or stomp at you for saddling or throwing a saddle pad on him or the saddle to standing there and being a good boy because it didn't hurt all the time.
He had tendon issues too, as far as that goes. I did always keep him booted up, but he was 21 and he'd run most of his life. He was just getting older. I just figured for his last year, I'd keep him on something. And so I'd used that on my mare. So I'm like, "Well, if it did that for her, maybe it can help him."
The last year that I ran him, he did very well. We were still running 22, 23 second pole patterns. He was still placing in the barrels and winning 3Ds, and 3D barrel races, and 1D pole races. It kept him comfortable. I sold him. A little boy has him now. I think they still have him on it too.
John:
Yeah, they'd better.
Wendy Gaydon:
Oh yeah, he's a pretty amazing horse too, but yeah. [crosstalk 00:12:41].
John:
Now when it comes to your colt, you had reached out to us because I think your question was, "Will it help or is it safe for colts? Can it help with development?" Tell us, or give us this whole story. What happened with this one?
Wendy Gaydon:
Yeah, the baby. He was out of a stud in South Dakota where I was at at the time that he was winning [inaudible 00:13:09]. He was out of one of my good broodmares. The morning he was born, it was great. He was up and drinking and running around, just being a colt. I put him out and it was warmer. I put him out and they ran around a little bit, [inaudible 00:13:28] stall. I had him at a barn that had cameras. So I went home, because I'd been there all night with her, and went home, took a shower, did some stuff here, my chores, went back up to the barn later that evening. He was lying in the stall. I asked the girls, I'm like, "Hey, has he been up?" And they're like, "Yeah, he was up nursing, but we haven't seen him up lately."
I go in and he's just lying in the stall. He's not moving. I couldn't get him up. He was lethargic. And so of course we call the vet. They come out and it was dehydrated. We never did figure out what it was. I didn't have all the tests run. But it was something intestinal, he'd have picked up a parasite or something coming through the birth canal and it was just eating him up. So I basically spent the next week at the barn in the stall with the colt. I had to run IV fluids through him every hour on the hour for a couple of days. So it was no sleep and stress thinking, "Gosh, I hope this colt lives. He's a nice colt. I don't want to lose that."
And then it just, he started getting a little better and a little stronger. And so the fluids went on for that week. We weaned him off of it. By the last day, it was one bag every five or six hours just to keep him hydrated. He was up nursing on his mom, but it just didn't seem like he was getting enough. So we started him with a little bit of supplement milk in a bottle and syringe at first. He learned how to drink out of a bucket really fast. So I'm figuring the first week he spent lying on his side because he really didn't get up. And so now he's up and he's drinking out of a bucket.
I've seen what Equinety does. I've used it on other horses than just the ones we talked about. I had a horse cut a knee and it was split wide open. I put him on that and the healing was amazing. So I'm like, "Okay, so this colt..." That's why I reached out, "Hey, is it safe for colts? Can I give it to him?" Because I really believe in the product because it's worked so many times for me and you guys have said, "Yes."
So when he's drinking his milk, the Equinety was in there and he was drinking that too. Once he did finally get up that week, the next week, we could see that his... because he hadn't been up stretching his legs like he should have been or running or anything like that, that his tendons were starting to contract. It was pulling him over at the knees and he was standing. I mean, it was almost sad. I didn't want him to be crippled. That was the last thing, that was just a last straw at that time. I'm like, "Oh my Lord, I've done all this. Now I'm going to have a crippled colt."
And so I basically put him on his Equinety when he was a week [inaudible 00:16:29] old, drinking it in his bucket every day because I gave it to him. I gave him bucket milk twice a day, every day for the first month that he was alive. I could see in the first month, he was bad. I thought, "This colt's going to be crippled." And so I talked to my farrier and I talked to you guys. I think between the two of them now, he is straight legged and is just an amazing built colt for something that was almost dead the first day of his life. It just helped his development. I can't even put into words. They would take pictures to show what this has actually done for him, which is just amazing. And to strengthen them tendons, it was amazing.
John:
Yeah. That's a great thing about this product as well because we're working at the cellular level, so we're talking skeletal, ligaments, tendons, soft tissue. As I mentioned earlier, it's not the magic powder, although people do call it that.
Wendy Gaydon:
I do. It's my life-saver.
John:
Yeah, yeah. But when it comes down to it, when your farrier is trying to help your horse specifically, if it's specifically talking about a farrier in the hoof, there's not much hoof to work with. There's not much for the farrier to do. And so by giving this product, it really helps in hoof development, is an example, which ultimately gives your farrier more to work with in a shorter amount of time. We have other podcasts with farriers that have been on here that have seen things with this product that they've never seen, in one case, in 59 years. It's just really, really amazing.
But again, going back to what I was saying earlier, in this podcast, we're talking about three different horses, three different stages of life and how it's helped each one specific to their needs. That's because the amino acids are giving the body what it needs to release its own hormones. And then it's that horse's body that determines where to send its own hormones for the repair. So in essence, it's customizing to each horse. You had mentioned another horse that had a pretty bad cut. I would think, we're going on seven years of being on the market with this product is specifically the Horse XL. I would think, and of course we don't hear all of them, but in all the stories that we've heard about recovery and repair, they seem to always repair ahead of schedule when they're using this product because [crosstalk 00:19:15].
Wendy Gaydon:
Oh yeah, I've so noticed that. Yes, that is so true.
John:
Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yeah. We're blessed. For sure, it's an amazing product with amazing stories. So for those tuning in, maybe there might be somebody that is like, "Well, that sounds pretty good, but maybe it's a little too good to be true," is there anything that you would have to say to that person or persons that still might be on the fence to get them to try the product?
Wendy Gaydon:
I would say try it, because I was one of those people. I was one of those skeptics looking at all the testimonials and watching the videos. I really was, I was really skeptical. But at that point, I had done tried everything else. There was just... I didn't really have anything else left to try to get my horse back. It was go out in the pasture and be lame for the rest of your life or try this product that looks like it's helping horses that had been lame, or foundered, or whatever, and so like I said, "I said nothing from nothing leaves nothing." So I tried it. I'd already put thousands of dollars into this horse and I wasn't ready to give up and quit on her yet. I was happy and amazed when I found this. I mean, it's unbelievable. I mean, I've gotten people to use it and try it and, "Here, take some of mine. Try it on your horse. See if it works."
Believe me, I've done it. I even had a girl that she injected her barrel horse with hocks, and when they started using that, he didn't need injections anymore. He was an older horse too, but they quit injecting him. So I totally believe in this product. I love the way if my horses get hurt, it helps heal and it heals so fast and so nice. I can't say enough good things about it. I haven't really heard any drawbacks from it. I'm sure it doesn't work for all horses, but it's worked on a number of ones that I've used it on.
John:
Yeah. The thing with amino acids, they're the building blocks of protein, so they have to work. Typically, what I've found over the years in the very few instances where we've had people say, "Oh, I tried this and it didn't work." Typically, well of course, we don't know what they're looking for most of the time. Second thing is, and we hear this a lot from people that we've even had with guests on the podcast and they say patience is the biggest thing, because there's been times where somebody went through 90 to 100 days and they're like, "I don't know if this stuff works, but I'll give it one more try." And then it works in the fourth month. So sometimes, and there was one in particular podcast from last month I think it was, it was a pretty severe founder case, but it took a year and, I think, eight months to get this horse... And she was going out for a trail ride the day that we were recording.
It all depends on the situation and patience is a big thing, but the good news with this product is it starts working in 24 hours. The vast majority do see changes in 30 days or less. There are those cases it takes longer. But yeah, we're pretty blessed and excited to always have guests on. And so I really appreciate you taking the time to share your story here on the Equinety podcast. Wendy Gaydon out of Pennsylvania, thank you so much.
Wendy Gaydon:
Well, thank you for having me. I do appreciate it. Like I said, I love the product. You guys gave me my horse back and I can't be happier.
John:
That's awesome. Well, thanks again.
Wendy Gaydon:
Thank you.
John:
All right. You bet. Bye-bye.
Wendy Gaydon:
Bye.
