Liberty Bridge Equine

10/03/2026

Fantastic book!

Your horse is on bute, omeprazole, SMZs, and/or pergolide.

Those medications can do important work, and your veterinarian prescribed them for a reason. Here's the question I kept running into alongside that: What does the horse need nutritionally while treatment does its job?

I have spent the last several months chasing that question through the research, and some of what I found genuinely surprised me. One widely repeated claim about nutrient loss with a common drug turned out not to hold up in horses, even though it does in people, which means owners have been worrying about the wrong mineral. Another study found that two groups of horses on the same antibiotic had very different kidney values, and the difference between them was solely what they were eating. Another found that a common enzyme supplement may increase how well a certain antibiotic class reaches tissue. Yet another found that a medication many metabolic horses are on is absorbed roughly half as well when given with feed, and the only variable was whether the horse had eaten.

Of course nutrition matters that much.

So I wrote the book I kept wishing existed.

Equine Medications and Nutrient Depletion covers 59 of the drugs horses most commonly receive. All together in a quick reference guide. What each medication does in the body, what the research says about nutrient status during treatment, and where nutrition can support the horse alongside veterinary care.

This book is for:
→ The owner rebuilding condition after a long treatment course
→ The one who wants to feed their horse well through treatment protocol the vet has prescribed
→ The person who wants more thoughtful questions to bring to their veterinary team
→ Every practitioner who has wanted this information in one place
→ Anyone who believes supporting a horse through treatment is part of treatment itself

Circle Black Friday on your calendars!
There is a holiday surprise coming with it that I am not ready to spill just yet. Those of you who have been with me a while know I do not tease things lightly.

Tell me in the comments which medication(s) you most hope to see covered. I am curious whether your list matches mine.

🐴 Follow along so you do not miss the release.

09/27/2026

Get this book, read it💪Indigo Ancestral Health

09/11/2026

One of the great things about presenting on Facebook is talking about ideas that people find challenging and then seeing where the holes are in my presenting. This really helps me to tighten up the study and the data points.

One thing that came up in the last post was that I had compared a “skinny horse” with a fat horse. It makes little difference to the skeleton what the body score of the horse is. The weight of the hind end muscles is immense and the pelvic floor by comparison is very small…..in short there’s allot of weight pushing inwards and little opposing force pushing outwards. One of the most common questions I get is can it be fixed? I would never use the word “fixed” this can be managed is the most hopeful I can be. This answer will be different for every horse…it’s nuanced because of things like age, breed, early workload and compensation factors then also how long has the horse been functioning in this state? Compensation means the horse is now having to load areas that were designed to work in harmony with the pelvis, not take the main load. Then also factor in the horses conformation, where is the lumbo sacral junction placed within the pelvis as this can vary greatly! Is there a sacralised lumbar present? Kissing spines? Does the horse have pre-existing NPA in the him feet?

Palpating the hind end of the horse has become a specialty of mine and knowing where the boney land marks would be in an ideal position. Variations exist for sure but our human expectations can make things worse for the horse.

Can they come back from pelvic collapse? With good rehab and lowered expectations of the horse you can strengthen and stabilise for sure. If the horse is resilient enough they can still perform for sure but the cost will be earlier boney changes down the line. That is a decision every horse person will need to make, what you do with your horse is your business! I just want everyone to have the information because in my mind prevention is better than cure. This is why I am very careful how much work I do with my horses before 5-6(mare,5 gelding,6)
I did a rehab last year on a pelvic collapse TB horse and followed his journey, his name was Gordon. Although I was able to keep him comfortable I think he will be unridable before his teens.

Riddle me this…..if the Skeleton is the scaffolding for the soft tissues and the scaffolding fails then what happens to the function of the soft tissues? Some atrophy(normally the longissimus and medial glutes) and some hypertrophy( the hamstring group and PSOAS) because as one under performs something has to pick up the slack…..this is dysfunctional. There’s a definite artform to bringing some function back to these horses. There’s allot more going on that we are collecting data points for through Etica Equine Charitable Trust.

But again, you can cover anything with fat……

09/09/2026

08/19/2026

07/19/2026

This!

Very Good Tensegrity Logo from Elizabeth Uhl, DVM. PhD, DACVP

07/07/2026

Honored to be a part of their recovery! Please come by if you are in the area:

https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/six-horses-rescued-in-animal-cruelty-case-recovering-at-alaqua-animal-refuge

WALTON COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Six horses are now on a long road to recovery at Alaqua Animal Refuge after being rescued from a Holmes County residence. On June 11th, the team at Alaqua was cal…

06/06/2026