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The Morrison Training Center Story My name is Vickie Morrison and I am located in central Illinois, along the bluff right in the middle of farm country. My husband farms and I have been involved with horses all of my life. I started raising and training paint horses about 15 years ago and strive to create quality individuals for showing, breeding and excellent companionship. Here at Morrison Training Center, we use a resistance free method of training and adjust the program to fit the personality of the individual horse. This helps produce a happy and trusting animal that will be willing to do what is asked. We work with horses for Western Pleasure, Showmanship, Western riding, English, and Longe line. We do not push the horse because we want one you can ride and enjoy for years. As for people, we teach the basics and work with you, so you can ride your horse comfortably and with confidence. For showing or just having fun. When a horse leaves here, they are sane, sound, and happy because we love our job! My journey with EquiPride started on March 4th,2005. I was at the Horse Fair in Springfield, IL. I was looking through the vendors that were there and I came upon the EquiPride booth. Dave and Brad Thornberg started going through all the problems this product would help and I am thinking to myself, “Oh, right!” Well they kept talking and I told them I would try the product, if it did what they said, I would become a dealer. So here I am, EquiPride sold itself, because it is everything and more than what they told me. I have even noticed a significant drop in my feed costs since putting my herd on the product. Let me tell you about some of my experiences with EquiPride: I have six weanlings that were chewing each other’s tails and wood like beavers. I had them on a good feeding program and vitamin-mineral supplement, but it still didn’t help. After being on EquiPride for two days everyone quit chewing tails and wood. Samantha Sours is a young woman with whom I work and show. She has a paint mare named “Skippin Dixie Mcque”, that colics at the drop of a hat. In 2004 this mare was colicy every show or anytime you changed her routine and we were getting very frustrated! So for the 2005 show season we put her on EquiPride and like magic, no more colic. The owner of a 2 year old filly that I had begun to train came to visit the horse after I had her for two weeks. She asked me, “What are you feeding her, she looks so good.” I told her EquiPride plus grain and good quality hay. Then she looked at my weanlings, and said, “My weanlings don’t look as good as yours, what are you doing?” Again, I said we were feeding them EquiPride. So she bought a bucket right on the spot. Now every time she gets a new bucket she remarks, “I can’t believe how this has helped my weanlings.” Feeding EquiPride has been a great tool for training. I have noticed on the colts (and older horses) that we get in for training, putting them on the EquiPride for about two weeks makes a huge difference in their personality. This in turn helps with the training of their young minds, and sometimes the set-mind in the older horses. It makes them calm and not hot and flighty. An 18 year old mare belonging to another customer was lame on the front end. A vet looked at her and said she had tendonitis in her front legs. He went on to say that she probably would not be sound and recommended putting her on bute to see if it would help her pain, and maybe sound her up. So my customer then tried the bute but it didn’t help. So she put the horse on EquiPride and is now trail riding her and loving it! I have a four-year old paint mare, TMF Bewitched, that I have had since a weanling. She has had an ulcer and is very hard to keep weight on. I tried everything on her, even gastro guard, with no help. So I put her on an EquiLix lick block for the first month and things got much better. Then I switched her to EquiPride. This last June (2005) she did not come down from pasture for her morning feeding. So I went looking for and found her flat out on her side in the pasture, I thought she was dead. Her two-month old weanling was standing by her trying to nurse and it was not a very happy picture! I couldn’t move her at first but with some struggle she finally got up. Though able to walk her to the barn, I thought that the horse would not make it overnight. Next morning, to my surprise she was still hanging in there and while cleaning her stall, I found a piece of plastic in her manure! I don’t know how or why she ate the plastic, but honestly feel if she had not been on the EquiPride she would be dead. I have not had any problems with her ulcer since. She has been on EquiPride for 8 months now and has never looked or acted better. A broodmare, Tiffany Superstar, whom I sold in 2004, was to foal in April of 2005. I had the buyer start the mare on EquiPride after I got back from the Horse Fair with all the information on such a great product. She began feeding the mare two scoops of EquiPride plus what I thought was 6 lbs of grain twice a day plus hay. Well a couple days later she called saying the mare was going to foal. I went over to check things out and saw that the mare was sweaty, blowing a little, getting up and down and generally acting uncomfortable. We thought this was because of her pregnancy and after awhile she was normal. A few days later, as I kept running this through my mind, I called the owner and asked her how much grain she was feeding Fanny (the mare)? She said, “12 lbs. of grain twice a day, like you told me.” I said no wonder she is uncomfortable! She has a bellyache, from all the grain, 12 lbs. instead of 6 lbs. of grain twice a day! After cutting the grain back, and keeping her on EquiPride, everything went back to normal and on the first of April she had a healthy filly. We stand a paint stallion for friends, ”Gay Bars Lucky Gambler”, and have for the last two years. The first year, 2004, he settled mares, but in July he got potomic horse fever, and was a very sick boy. We were afraid he would not be able to settle mares in the future because he had a high temperature of 106 deg and his semen was not really viable in the first place. So we had him checked and our fears were confirmed. So in March 2005 we started him on EquiPride and then had his semen rechecked in May. Everything was back on track! An added bonus is that his feet were in terrible condition and we couldn’t keep shoes on him. But on EquiPride, that changed also! A filly I took in to train in April 2005 was a basket case, always frantic about everything! When I would turn her out in a pen next to the other horses, she would pace and pitch a fit (she was like a kid on a sugar high). The others couldn’t stand her and my young paint stallion, “Lonesome Legend”, would charge his fence whenever he saw her out, and she was not even near him. This went on for a month and a half and I had never seen anything like it. I started her on EquiPride the first day she got to my farm and in two weeks began to notice a difference in her personality. So after a month and a half, she had calmed down and all the other horses were fine with her from that point on. When it was time for the owner to pick her up, he couldn’t believe it was same the horse! “Rocky” is a sixteen year old paint gelding for Miranda, one of the kids in my youth group. She has had him for two years. His tail was way up past his hocks and just wouldn’t grow. He was also hard to keep weight on. After starting him on EquiPride last March (2005), we couldn’t believe the difference in him after two months. In late Fall I saw the horse and didn’t recognize him. He was fat and sassy, his tail had grown past his hocks and he looked great! When breeding season rolled around in the past, my young stallion, “Lonesome Legend” and the senior stallion, “CC Azippo Pine Bar” had trouble keeping weight on. But now on EquiPride they stay in excellent weight and condition! “To Sharp to Be Boon” is a 10-year old Quarter Horse gelding and competes in barrels, pole bending and goat tying with Cassandra Spivey. This past August (2005) they were competing in barrels at the New Windsor Rodeo but after a great run, the horse could hardly walk. The vet’s diagnosis was “Tying-Up Syndrome” and he was put on several drugs for comfort. His feed was also changed at this time. A week later he wasn’t doing much better and I suggested putting him on EquiPride. He was given three scoops a day to start with and later cut back to two. In one week he was much improved and a couple weeks later Cassandra started conditioning him for barrel competition in October. He was able to race and did very well. He is back to his old self thanks to EquiPride! There are a lot of products on the market for horses and I have probably tried most of them. Being in the horse breeding and training business, I have run into problems with foals over-at-the-knees, epiphysistus, upper respiratory, tail and wood chewing, bad hair coats, pot bellies, bad feet etc… Since putting my horses on EquiPride, the broodmares are much easier to keep weight on when they have foals nursing, great hair coats, solid feet and good overall body condition on both mares and babies. When I wean the babies they don’t miss a meal, have no stress and do not lose weight or bloom! Before EquiPride I fed powdered fat, rice bran, vitamins, grain and hay. Now I feed EquiPride, grain and hay. I have cut my feed bill a lot but have not cut down on the health of the herd. My horses have never looked or felt better! Vickie Morrison
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