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Location: HOME OF THE DILLON BEAVERS!!!!!!! | I HAVE A 13 YR OLD GELDING THAT COUGHS ALOT. I HAVE BEEN WATERING HIS HAY AND TRYING TO KEEP HIM ON GRASS PENS, HOWEVER HE STILL COUGHS AND WAS WONDERING WHAT DO YOU ALL USE IF YOU ENCOUNTER THIS. ANY AND ALL INFO GREATLY APPRECIATED! |
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Location: Louisiana | Where do you live? |
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| I'd take him to a vet and get him scoped to rule out any serious issues. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | I second RM3! Take him in a get him scoped.
My 11 year old gelding will cough once we start loping circles during warm up. I thought he might have been a bleeder so I took him to the vet one Monday morning after a Sunday afternoon run. No blood, but he did have some swelling in this throat (I won't try to name the specific area... I'm not not great with anatomy) that was restricting his airways. Vet said it was probably allergies. We did 2CCs/day of Dex for a week and he gets 2.5CCs two and half to three hours before a run. Any less time before that and he will still cough during warm up and won't really fire as hard. Sent blood off for allergy testing and still waiting to hear back.
The vet said it was probably due to having a more wet spring/summer than usual.
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Location: Lala Land | Mine started coughing last summer, took him in and he had a lung infection and turns out he's COPD. Take him in it could save you a lot of hastle later. |
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Location: HOME OF THE DILLON BEAVERS!!!!!!! | thanks everyone! i live in southwest mt! it has been real dry lately unti lthe last couple of weeks anyway. he does real well with the wet hay and he isnt a barrel horse just a using ranch horse but i feel real bad for him. |
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Location: Northern CA | Have a 2 year old doing the same thing, has been doing it for months. Sometimes when we warm up, sometimes after loping, sometimes standing in his pen, sometimes eatting. Normal blood work, tried anitibiotics and anti-imfammatories, no help. Tried watering down hay, no help. Put him on Pred for several weeks, no help. Got him scoped last week, everything looks normal. Waiting for results from a trach wash, seems to bother me more than it does him. |
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Location: Alabama | After you rule things out with your vet, Cough Free (bought mine from Jeffers) stopped my filly who coughed in an arena during exercise. Hers was just allergies.
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Location: Fort Bragg North Carolina | I have one that coughs bad during warm up and when she's in the pasture due to having influenza earlier this year. The cough never went away the vet cleared her to run/ride and said she had esophagus damage and will prolly always have a cough. ? ? |
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Location: Northern CA | Just got the results of the cytology on the trach wash from my gelding. Looks like Inflammatory Airway Disease. Plan is to continue on Prednisolone everyday for a few more weeks, and possibly add in hydroxyzine, because of the presence of allergen reactive cells. Sounds like it's not a big deal.... but it sure is driving me crazy!
Edited by halter_ego 2014-08-28 7:08 PM
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 Saint Stacey
| If the horse scopes clean and still has a cough, you might want to do a trachael wash. |
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