Today, Carousel 4H Club was one of several groups that attended the Equine Experience at Morgan Equine Veterinarian and Farrier Hospital. http://www.morganequine.com/education.htm is a link to their website. We had great learning opportunities today in the four sessions presented to us...actually five sessions, if you count the bandaging lab. Dr. Morgan divided the large group into age groups, and sent us off to our areas. The adults were our own group. The group started out with a hands-on "puzzle" (Excellent visual!)of the major ligaments of the back of a horse's front leg. Then we had an introduction to ultrasound technology for limb analysis. A very nice Haflinger pony was the demo horse that stood well for us. We learned that we should all throw out our leg boots if they make our horses's legs sweat up underneath them (I already use a leather and fleece boot on Beike).

Our group then went to the anatomy lab and discussed some various horse and cow skeletin parts. We had a good discussion on founder (laminitis).

After a short break, our group then went to the parasite and dental room. This was a refresher from some of the instructional activities held at Morgan Equine in past years. It was good to hear the updates on deworming products.

After lunch, we all attended our last session (all the groups rotated to the various rooms and lectures). We attended a neat powerpoint presentation on what can be seen with Radiographs (X-rays) which included a good leg anatomy lesson, and some interesting problems with horse's legs - splints, coffin bone rotations, etc.

The day ended with Dr. Morgan doing a thank you presentation to her eventing groom "Alice" which was very nice. A good groom such as Alice deserves recognition as without them, an eventer, well..... wouldn't do such a good job eventing. It's a LOT of work.

THANK YOU DR. MORGAN for such as great event. We learned a lot.

~G