Good point 😭
My assumption was somebody googled "horse bridle", looked at it for five seconds, then closed the tab and fumbled through the model, but there's a chance they didn't even get that far

NOOO NOT THE WEIRD UNINTENTIONAL SIDEPULL THAT WAS BASED ON A SNAFFLE WITH A DROP NOSEBAND

AND THE CLASSIC ANACHRONISTIC WESTERN SADDLE 😭

We're in a BROKE-broke, rural part of Oklahoma with lots and lots of rodeo horses, especially team roping. It's not uncommon to break and burn, break and burn young horses, dumping the used up horses at auction.

Our primary breeding vets are down in Texas where the care is DRASTICALLY different

They'll get high quality, specialized grain while growing in order to fill any gaps in minerals our hay and pasture has, and eventually get put on a diet balancer with almost everyone else.
We keep round bales in most of our pastures because we realistically just don't have that much land lol

Yeah I'm not into the stalls, we're only using some right now because of baby health issues. (Long story)
I personally see nothing wrong with handling the foals so long as they still get time with other horses, and our two boys are going to wean into an existing gelding herd.

They fatten the horses on cheap, high starch feed to inadvertently hide the lacking muscling, poor growth, and low quality coats. They would think a normal weight weanling is scrawny and weak compared to the overfed ones.

The pastures often aren't maintained either, so they're full of weeds. The hay quality is often cheap and low. A lot of the most "successful", meaning make the most profit and sell the most horses, breeders locally basically run pony puppy mills.

Most of what I've seen locally is leaving broodmares out to pasture with no hoofcare, irregularly thrown cow feed or sweet feed, and most of their direct contact with people is de worming. Foals often don't receive any care or training until either weaning or when started at two.

The imprinting stuff seems goofy as hell tbh LOL
Moreso what I'm thinking of is still a natural herd environment, they just ideally start receiving hoofcare at six weeks, are fed personalized diets, etc. Effectively instantly integrated into the same world their mother is.

She looks so discerning LOL

❤️
Just need to get Skye back in work so I can get some examples of good musculature too!

I'm tired that wasn't very specific, flax is a source of fat

I assumed as much :( As far as replacements for Bloom, there are three amino supplements for protein and lots of cold milled flax supplements like Turtle Mountain Flax and Bluebonnet's Omega+

Unfortunately the Equioxx might be connected because it's still an anti-inflammatory even though it has a lower chance of stomach ulcers.
I also personally had issues with a rescue horse when he was on Bloom, it got weight on him but he just seemed more sore on it