I swear, this early evening is turning out a lot like Wednesday----LeaAnn called to tell me we had a horse down. WTF is going on around here? I almost never have colic issues---less than 5 times with all these horses after all these years.
This time it was a baby--Miss Riot. LeaAnn noticed that she did not bother to get up from her nap to come to dinner, so she went out to see what her deal was. When she did get up, with some prodding, she was wobbly on her feet. She did mosey over and start to eat but ultimately laid back down again. Madison was there to help her, and LeaAnn's dad came to help, but they could not get her in the barn.
LeaAnn called me and I flew home, and we tried to hustle her in the barn--I pushed her from behind, and could get her to walk awhile, but we had to go through some muck, and when it got hard, she wold just sit right down on her butt. It was awful, the poor kid does not feel good.
I finally went in and got the Banamine, talked to Kevin on the phone about jinxing myself by telling him how I never have had many colics (assuming that was what this was), and got her shot up with a healthy dose. We let her rest some more and then sharted shoving again. She went along with this for a while, but then got MAD-- reared up, kicked out and lurched forward. I was actually kind of glad to see that much fight in her--it suggested she was not as weak as she first appeared.
Thank goodness LeaAnn had already stripped and rebedded stalls for me, so there was a nice place to put baby girl. One less thing to worry about. Kevin suggested pouring some soy oil over Strategy and see if we could get it in her, and if she did not want to eat, to use it as a drech and get it in her so we could avoid tubing her--she is after all, just a baby. She did eat some, slowly, but she did eat. Now she needs to drink some.
She also has at least three quarter sized round spots that are naked--on her butt and side. It must be a fungus, but I could scrape down to naked skin and the skin looks fine, just completely bald. One more thing to deal with when we get through this current episode.
As usual, I could not find the stupid thermometer, so I left Madison in charge and went to Walgreen's to get a new one. By the time I got home, Riot was wound for sound--it took a few minutes to get her captured and her temp taken 101.3, so no worries there I guess.
Back to the waiting game, just like we did with Rock the other night. Nothing to do but monitor her I guess---I am assuming she has a little colic and hope that the banamine will get her through it. Either that, or she wanted to get out of the wind and into a soft fluffy resting place.
Poor Kevin is going to get afraid to sit down for dinner, since I have interrupted him every nite this week, I think!
Friday, November 30, 2007
Is it Ground Hog's Day?
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Your not the only one. I've had 2 apparent colic episodes here within 3 days. The first was Cassie, I pulled her grain, great gut sounds, she was just as uncomfortable as she could be though. So no grain for a couple of days. Pissed her slam off. She's fine now, never had a temp, nothing, just kept laying down.
Then 2 days later, Dolly did the same thing.
The only thing that is different is this hay I have. It's the same mix they are used to, but there must be something in it that seems to upset some horses. I inquired about it today, seems that this wasn't something he wasn't expecting to hear. My guess is they are getting quite a few complaints about this particular hay. So I got a nice little discount on new hay. Now I have to figure out what to do with the remaining hay I have. I guess I'll mix it, that way I can sift through it to see what if anything is in there that maybe upsetting their stomachs a little. They weren't bad episodes, but enough that it caused a little alarm with me. If it's not one thing it's another.. I swear! Here's hoping that's the end of any colic's for at least 3 years!
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