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 Coyote Country Queen
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| Just checking in to see how your baby is doing. Hoping that he is doing well this morning. |
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Miss Southern Sunshine
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Location: South Central Florida | Well this morning his poop is a little more formed, not water. Vet just left and said he is about 95% sure it is because the mare is in heat. Says foal heat can vary widly from 5 days to 3 or 4 weeks, and tomorrow is 3 weeks.
He was so good for the vet....every so glad I have been handling him every day. He drew blood, colt did not even move....took a sample, but there wasn't much to take, gave him a shot of Exceed and decided to tube him and give him some mineral oil just in case he had injested sand or something. HOLY COW..... poor baby but he was a little champ. Even tubing him was not that hard.
He will run the blood back at the office which is an hour away. He will let me know what it says. On the tape, he weighed 175 lbs. His temp was 102.5 which he said is a tiny bit high but it's already hot and he's been out in the sun. So that's why the exceed, just in case.
Thanks for the prayers and the advice.
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  Champ
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm |  Good. I'm glad it wasn't too serious.  |
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| I too had a foal with chronic diarrhea and after many, many different vet recommendations ( labs, changing mama's feed, more labs, lots of pepto, labs on mama, changing stalls, bedding / no bedding, oh my gosh it just went on and on..) we weaned early and the diarrhea completely went away, like over night. We gave him milk replacer and he was fine, grew up into a very nice fellow :) |
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| If you want to do something very simple ...>>>
Wash the mare from under her tail, between her rear legs and her bag and teats off .... any drainage after birth or during heat cycles can give a baby diarrhea .... do this frequently any time you have a foal nursing ...
GOOD LUCK ..
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 Pork Fat is my Favorite
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | I have not read all the responses and I am certain you have recieved great advice but I was once told about the foal heat and not to worry and we lost our foal a day later. It can get them quick. IMO I would get a vet out just to be sure---if you have a lot vested. |
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