For those of you who read my post yesterday you will know that my riding teacher Fiona thinks that her Grand Prix horse Vettie has got Cushings Disease, I didn't know what this was and decided that becoming a horse owner this year I should know what it is. So yesterday I got out my 'Horse Health Bible' book and also another horse health book that I have got that I can't quite remember the name of and was surprised that neither of them had anything in them to do with Cushings, so I decided today I would look it up on the internet and do a post about it. So here goes:- What is Cushing's Disease? This is an Equine Disease that is one of the most common hormonal disorders that occurs in horses and ponies. The main cause of this is a tumor, or an increase of cells near the pituitary gland. This then causes an increase in the stress hormone Cortisol, or it can cause mimicking of this particular hormone by the adrenal gland this is located near the horses' ...