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Location: Florida.. | TessBelle - 2014-08-22 7:23 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-08-22 5:34 PM How is your horse doing this afternoon? Besides being ill she's fine but that's not unusual for her here lately. She's eating and drinking.
she is ill? |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Did she get sick after she choked? Hope shes not to bad? |
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Location: SE Louisiana | TessBelle - 2014-08-22 6:23 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2014-08-22 5:34 PM
How is your horse doing this afternoon?
Besides being ill she's fine but that's not unusual for her here lately. She's eating and drinking.
Yeah.. but WHAT is she eating?? Horses are a major cause of stress!!! ARGggHH!! |
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Location: Texas | Yes it's the scar tissue that forms in the esophagus from the bolus that was stuck. After the initial event, the area may scar up and decrease the diameter of the esophagus.
The next time it happens you really just need to call the vet, and pull hay, feed, water, grass, anything he can eat away from him. The horses know something isn't right so they try and wash it down or keep eating…They can drown on their own saliva from all the food and water not making it down. Or they can aspirate food into the lungs, and rupture the esophagus and get food into the chest cavity.
Usually horses choke because they bolt feed, or they eat something that is easily balled up. There can be other reasons that are more scary but less common... Changing your diet and/or soaking feed before you feed it really helps. But since you knew she ate something she wasn't supposed to, I would think that's the obvious reason.
I've been out on a couple choke calls… it was tedious and gross and I ended up with goop on me, but the horse ended up okay. THE BIGGEST THING IS DONT WAIT TO CALL THE VET. We had a call one AM where a horse started choking the night before. They left him out in the pasture while he was choking and didn't pull the feed and water away from him. They called the next AM for an appointment and said they would call back with an address so we could head out there. In that time of waiting for an address the horse died. Talk about a horrible way to die. |
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Location: Florida.. | if it was a choke she may need antibiotics to.. if it aspirated into her lungs.. she will start getting ill in a few weeks and coughing and fever.. be aware.. and raspy breathing.. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Bibliafarm - 2014-08-22 6:28 PM
TessBelle - 2014-08-22 7:23 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-08-22 5:34 PM How is your horse doing this afternoon? Besides being ill she's fine but that's not unusual for her here lately. She's eating and drinking.
I guess I would have clarified it more. Ill like moody. Not ill like sick. She made it clear she was in no mood to be messed with. She's not mean like kicking or biting but she will let you know if thens a good time or if you should come back later lol.
Edited by TessBelle 2014-08-22 10:55 PM
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | komet. - 2014-08-22 6:36 PM
TessBelle - 2014-08-22 6:23 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2014-08-22 5:34 PM
How is your horse doing this afternoon?
Besides being ill she's fine but that's not unusual for her here lately. She's eating and drinking.
Yeah.. but WHAT is she eating?? Horses are a major cause of stress!!! ARGggHH!!
Her feed and grass. Nothing there at the moment that she's not suppose to eat. |
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