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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | horsegirl - 2018-09-17 10:03 AM Southtxponygirl - 2018-09-17 10:59 AM horsegirl - 2018-09-17 9:41 AM Southtxponygirl - 2018-09-17 10:25 AM You are doing the right thing by taking away the feed for a few days, I would keep him off feed untill you get him scoped.. I would not even worry with the supplements untill the scope is done. At this rate of the colic bouts I would be worry hes going to twist a gut.
This is your new horse right? Have you asked his past owner what they fed, I may have missed that somewhere. My colic prone horse that I have can not eat any type of grain at all all he got was a pelleted feed from Bluebonnet and pasture and hay, and he never colic again. When I first got him he would colic at least once a week when I had him on a grain feed took him off for a few weeks and that made a different. He just cant handle anything with grain, since then I have switched all horses to a pellet and this was over 10 years ago. I got him end of May, yes. He had an abscess that took 2 months (between building and then treatment after hole opened it) and then the ulcers started. They had him on straight pasture for 4 years. Our pastures cannot sustain that lifestyle however, so we started him on grain and free choice hay and pasture. Apparently, it's not working. LOL He has gained probably 100 or 200 lbs since I got him, and he looks GREAT, but he does NOT feel great.
Do the Alfalfa pellets and stay away from the mid south feed untill you get that scope done to see if it is uclers that you are dealing with..Is he use to eating alfalfa pellets? If not dont let them feed to much of it to him at one time, I know you know what you are doing but just had to say it anyway. | |
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Location: in the ozone | Are you SURE it's colic? What about a PSSM attack? The abscesses can be a symptom - then throws the horse's system into negative nitrogen balance & that can cause major symptoms. Those attacks the PSSM2 horses have is very often confused with colic. | |
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Location: South Georgia | slipperyslope - 2018-09-19 9:05 PM Are you SURE it's colic? What about a PSSM attack? The abscesses can be a symptom - then throws the horse's system into negative nitrogen balance & that can cause major symptoms. Those attacks the PSSM2 horses have is very often confused with colic. I don't think it is colic at all, actually, at least not how we normally view colic as having a formal internal complication. Now, colic as it is defined is just abdominal pain, which he does have occasionally and he makes it very clear. The pain comes after/during an evening grain meal and/or exercise. This leads me to believe that it is ulcers, especially since former owner said he had a history years prior. The vet is coming to do a gastroscopy on the 27th so we can try to figure out just what it is for sure. I researched PSSM2 and his symptoms do not seem to fit. There is no muscle wasting, the only symptom in common is occasional colic-like episodes very shortly after grain meal. I'm not a vet, but I will bring it up to him to see what he thinks.
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