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I set up this page to sell pictures taken at local events to help me in my fundraising towards the EGSF. I don't benefit from sales myself - I have to pay the maintenance costs of running the website on a monthly basis & to date, most of the funds made have been donated to the fund directly. However, as our fundraising gets busier with more and more events running annually (and sponsorship not always guaranteed), we also use some of the funds raised to put back into our fundraising efforts in assisting with payments for insurance, prizes etc which allows more funds made at these events to be donated to the fund.
I give up my time free to go out and capture the activities of the events on camera and then spend hours editing & uploading the pics to the page to make them available for purchase.
The reason I fundraise for the EGSF is because my own lad Mal took sick with chronic EGS in August 2014. My heart sank when I saw him amble up the hill coming in for the farrier. He was miles behind the others and when he turned, I just knew I was dealing with EGS. I had only seen it once before and it was horrific. Mal thankfully didn't display the signs of the horse I had seen suffer with it before. It was PTS very quickly with sub acute EGS. Conanvet were on hand to offer advice and ensure that he wasn't suffering at all. He was syringe fed for the first 3 weeks. Every hour between 6am - 11pm he got small feeds of Bailey's No 1 and corn oil syringed in to his mouth 40ml at a time. Bailey's very kindly sent through lots of feed samples and when he smelt their No17 top line conditioning mix, he decided that was his turning point and he ate himself from that day forward with very little prompting. We nursed Mal at home and I remember feeling the relief when we passed the 8 week mark. We didn't really breathe easy until we made it passed the 14 weeks though and he was putting on weight and back to being the cheeky chap that he always was.
I class myself as one of the lucky ones. Most folks who have the nightmare of dealing with EGS don't get a chance to nurse, the decision is taken out of their hands for welfare issues as acute and sub-acute cause so much suffering. EGS is one of the worst things I have dealt with as a horse owner having kept horses for 40 years. I never want to see another horse suffer at the hands of this vile disease and that is the reason behind my fundraising efforts. If you can support the EGSF at all, it is hugely appreciated by everyone who has seen or suffered at the hands of this vile disease.
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