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Location: Desert Land | Had a colt act colicy saturday, I ended up taking him to the clinic as a possible colic surgery candidate. Vet ended up opening him up and he had an inguinal hernia - but the vet doing the surgery (in his late 70's) said this was the first time he had done one of these surgeries where it was a colon down in inguinal canal rather than a small intestine.
He had a rough recovery coming out of the anesthesia, but is doing better and as long as everything goes well, he should be able to come home at the end of the week.
Anyhow, looking for info on recovery, being able to go on to performing, etc. |
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Location: Texas | that is crazy! I can't imagine finding colon instead of small intestines. Was all of his GI tract okay? |
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Location: Desert Land | casualdust07 - 2014-08-25 10:33 AM that is crazy! I can't imagine finding colon instead of small intestines. Was all of his GI tract okay?
Everything in the GI tract was good - the only thing he lost was one testicle that was strangulated in the ordeal. |
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | I had a super nice little appy colt born with one. About the size of a softball. He had surgery at about 12 hours old, and elected to geld him while they were doing the surgery--tho nothing of that nature was compromised. Saved us from doing it later. He never missed a beat, and turned out to be a very nice horse, both mentally and physically--became a kids ranch horse at a relatively young age.
About half a day after surgery, up and attem and bugging Mama...
I think he was a Feb or March baby, and this was in early November... He grew like a weed.
Sold him as a 15+hh two year old, and his performance was not affected one bit. |
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Inguinal Hernia - experiences?
