TESTIMONIES

REGARDING SOME OF OUR EXPERIENCES WITH

CONKLIN’S FASTRACK PRODUCTS

Our family has had a lot of horses in the past and still do.  A lot of different problems have arisen as they tend to do with any horses (or dogs or any other animal and human),  and we’ve all had a lot of experience in what to do with those problems.  With Fastrack we have cut our feed bills down……..WAY down (and in this day and time who can’t use that).  We have 10 horses (AQHA & APHA) who literally waddle around our place they are so fat and healthy.  To give you just a small example, there are several of them that only get ½ to ¾ of a 13 ou. coffee can of a 12% good quality sweet feed twice daily, as well as their good quality prairie hay.  Most of them are in the 14.2 to 15 hand range, and they weigh over 1200 lbs.  Our smallest is about 14.1 hands and weighs approximately 1100 lbs.  They are ALL on Fastrack powder daily (for maintenance) and the gel (for emergencies, if needed).  We’ve just recently began some of them on the product Conklin has called Fortifier and we are VERY pleased with the results it has produced. 

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                           "HIPSHOT”

OUR DAUGHTER’S 32 YR. OLD

BARREL, POLE, & ROPE HORSE

Don and my first experience with Fastrack was in approximately 2000 when one of our favorite geldings, Hipshot, my daughter’s especially good barrel horse who had been retired for several years, was 28 yrs. old.  This was during an exceptionally hot summer where the temperatures stayed near or over 100 for several weeks without a break in the heat.  Hipshot went off his feed and began to drop weight, and of course, energy, quickly.  He barely had the energy to move around and for the first time in the 16 yrs. we had owned him, he wanted nothing to do with any type of feed.  This horse was so very special that we would have done anything to have more time with him as a healthy horse.  We, of course, had him to the vet who gave us several things to try to enhance his appetite…..plus we tried everything we could think of, but to no avail.  We saw him fading fast and it was breaking our heart, it was like he’d just “given up”. 

Then one afternoon we had gone to a popular horse sale in a town near us and one of the booths there was a Conklin booth with Fastrack set up all over it for both animals and humans.  We stopped and talked to the IBO’s running the booth and after hearing what we were experiencing with Hipshot, they told us what all this probiotic has done for many, many horses.  Out of desperation we decided to try a bag (at that point we would have done anything because he had lost approximately 200 pounds and was fading so fast) and a tube of the gel.  Well, our prayers were answered and within a week Hipshot was eating again, within two weeks we could see a slight gain in weight which quickly made all the difference in the world in his strength and attitude.  He wanted to eat constantly and got to the point of playing with our other horses, beating them to the feed bucket morning and night.  To keep my story short, we were sooooooo impressed that we put every horse we had on Fastrack and they and Hipshot ALL felt so much better.  He gained all of his weight back quickly, got all of his strength back, and we got to enjoy that special guy for another few years until he was 32 yrs. old when we lost him to an impaction that due to age of his intestines, they just got too old to work anymore.  It was a GIANT loss for all of us, we all felt that we had been so blessed to have him in our lives for the 16 yrs. that we did.  I want to note, too, that for a 32 yr.old horse he just looked really good when he passed away.  We still have all of our horse’s on Fastrack and plan to always have them on it.  It’s been a life saver and a money saver many times.

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“TE QUILA”

OUR 6 YR. OLD

CUTTING & REINING BRED AQHA STALLION

We have a stallion who injured his rear ankle when he was just a young colt.  It was severe enough that he got a large ankle and had lost the fluid out of the joint from  which you could literally hear the “bone against bone” scraping with each step.  The poor thing was in so much pain so we immediately began trying to find something to help him.  As we’ve been told several times before in circumstances such as this, the vets say there’s no hope and he should be put down.  Well, in God there IS hope and we are just hard headed enough to stand on that word and keep on trying.  After a short time we found a liquid that we could put in his feed and it did improve him a lot.  The joint fluid returned and he quit limping unless he hurt himself by playing and acting like a normal colt.  After Fortifier came out Don decided to speak to Conklin’s veterinarians and was told that what we’d been giving him was a “temporary fix” helping him daily but the Fortifier would repair the joint and improve it permanently.  For the time he has been on it (along with his Fastrack, of course) and off of the liquid we had him on for six years, he hasn’t been compensating for any lameness at all and he’s running normally now, playing and bucking without any limping.  His only sign that anything is wrong is that he does still have the large ankle.  He has been a servicing stallion for the past 2 yrs. and is sure siring some nice foals (by the way, the vets said he’d never be able to breed either, his ankle wouldn’t stand up to it………..it’s perfectly fine and he’s had no trouble at all with it during breeding season or before and after) <smile>.

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“HONEY”

OUR 29 YR. OLD

RETIRED BARREL & POLE MARE

We also have our 29 yr. old buckskin AQHA mare on the Fortifier (and of course, Fastrack) due to her age.  She doesn’t show any arthritis or any other type of problems or illnesses, but Fortifier is for many things that we feel will aid in this “senior mare”.  She’s fat, happy, healthy, shiny, and alive at 29…….a BIG part of that is due to Fastrack.  We know she hasn’t many years with us but we raised this beautiful animal from the ground up (she’s out of my old buckskin mare who died at age 29 back in 1994) and she is so special to us.  She’s also the proud mama of another one of our testimonials, “Angel” who she had at the age of 22 after trying for years to get her pregnant with no success.   According to the vets there was nothing wrong physically with her, she was just an older maiden mare and would never get pregnant.  OOPS! WRONG AGAIN!!!  We bought our own stud, decided “what the heck, we may as well, he’s here and she’s here” and about a month later the ultra sound showed her to be in foal.  Needless to say, you could have heard me whooping and hollering for miles, I’m sure.  She made it through her pregnancy with no problems (on Fastrack) and for a maiden mare of 22 yrs. old to have an eventless pregnancy ending with a beautiful little filly, that’s quite an accomplishment.  BUT to continue the story, please read “Angel’s Testimonial” and the miracle that came of that.  Believe me, we will always be feeding all of our horses (as well as our dogs and ourselves), Fastrack.

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“ANGEL”

OUR LITTLE MIRACLE

7 YR. OLD AQHA MARE

This testimonial still raises the hair on my arms when I really get to thinking about the entire situation and just how wonderful God was to Angel and us, and how Fastrack came to us through prayer for Hipshot.  As stated above in “Honey’s” story, Angel was born a miracle to begin with.  When she was about a week old she began having diarrhea off and on.  Normally the Fastrack would have stopped it completely or kept her from even having any (she’s our only foal that ever had diarrhea since we began all of our horses on the Fastrack gel).  In a day or two she started carrying her back leg up like she had injured it and wouldn’t walk on it at all.  We, of course, had the vet out and he said she had salmonella poisoning and that we may as well put her down as she would NEVER live with it.  BONG!! WRONG AGAIN!!! (Oh, I just LOVE it when they’re wrong like that…..LOL!!)  We, again, got just really hard headed and took her to OSU Large Animal Hospital where they doubted they could save her but wanted to give it a try <smile>.  She was in intensive care with high, high fevers, not eating, IV’s going everywhere, several surgeries where they put a screw into the bone in the stifle area and had to go in to inject the high powered antibiotics directly into the bone to kill out the salmonella poisoning.  And, yes, the vets there at the Hospital gave her Fastrack gel daily!!  With a lot of prayers she began to slowly get better and her temperatures dropping closer to normal.  She was in intensive care for approximately a month.  They called us one day and told us that she was ready to go home (quicker than they had thought it would be).  They told us then that she probably would never carry a foal OR to ever be ridden due to it being a weight bearing joint that the salmonella affected.  We had to take her back often for her x-rays and checkups and it wasn’t long until they said, “Well, ya know, I really think as well as she is doing…..she just might be able to be bred and carry a foal.” That really THRILLED us!!  Then several months went by and we had her in again for more x-rays and checkup and the vet said then he was just amazed at how well she was doing, he felt she could even be broke and ridden if it were done easily and slow”.  Of course, ALL of the positive things we were hearing just elated us as it had been such a stressful time for so long with this little miracle and now it truly was going to be something that we hoped and prayed for.  She shows absolutely NOTHING other than a scar where they went in and put the port in the bone.  No limping, no weakness, nothing.  See why we get excited about Fastrack??

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To Make More Long Stories Short……………

(here’s some quick….but important…examples of other Fastrack “Testimonies”)

We seldom have a vet bill due to colic because of the probiotics helping the horses in so many ways whether it be their overall appearance of their hair coat, their feet improving so much, their stress factors being low in stressful situations, their immune system being so much better that they can fight off those bouts of illnesses, sick and older horses appetites returning and going on to their road to health. We raise babies and Fastrack has completely kept our foals from having diarrhea (excluding Angel but that was Salmonella poisoning and after her hospitalization, it began to have the chance to help her), therefore going on to be bigger, healthier, happier foals.

Above I’ve given a testimony on a 32 yr. old horse and a 29 yr. old horse.  We were also blessed with Major, another of Shala’s retired barrel horses.  He was a big healthy, fat, special gelding who passed away at 29 yrs. old with the same thing that was wrong with Hipshot.  We had him on Fastrack the whole time we had him and never had any problems with colic until one day he did colic and because of the age of his intestines, was unable to help him in anyway.  Sadly, we had to have him put down.  He ran barrels last when he was 27 yrs. old and felt great.

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