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| I noticed my mare making a loud roaring noise only when I asked her for a little more speed. She's quite irritable as well. Probably because she can't breath properly. I had her scoped back the 1st of January. We saw the flapper wall was thickened & irritated. He suggested antibiotics & steroid to see if if was just something that has made it irritated & hoping it would clear this problem up. After 4 weeks of the medicine it is not any better. Going back to have scoped again. Anyone done surgery & did it help? Is this going to limit her being a 1D horse?
Edited by 3cans&out 2016-02-05 12:14 PM
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Location: USA | I go in for a scope today.... I posted on this topic a couple days ago. Not much of a response. Hope you can get more input. Other than the sound she is making do you notice any other symptoms with breathing? I notice my guy takes forever to get his wind back and really doesn't have much wind to begin with. He gets winded easily. Just curious if you notice anything like this with your horse? |
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Location: NW. Florida | Bump |
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| Hey Looking for Diamonds, yes I do notice that she seems to give out of energy by the time she gets to the 3rd barrel. I talked with vet on Friday afternoon & he wanted me to try 6cc of ventepulum 1 hour before I ride & cruise her thru. & do this several different days then consult back with him. I did this on Sunday & no change. I'll try this a couple more times. Next step he said is to bring her back in to have tracheal wash done to see if there are any infections deeper. he says that Ocala has the scope that they can do while she is exercising. I may be better off just going on to Ocala & seeing what they recommend. Frustrated!! |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | It could be a flapper or it could be displacing. I have one that displaces and we use a WTP bit with the tongue plate and the noise goes away. |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | But having the horse scoped will give you more answers than any of us speculating. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | Recently I had a gelding just hit the wall coming down the home stretch. (I had this guy in really good shape as he just got off the aquatred and out of the pool conditioning training of two months.) He smoked his first run and I never asked him to put in his best effort. He was second out of a couple hundred horses. The next run was in high humidity and against some of the best horses out there. He was so afraid to go in the pen. He smoked a run all the way up to leaving the third. When he leaves a barrel right he slams me to the cantle. Well that didn't happen and a few strides before the timer he shut down hard. He didn't recover his respiratory rate and was higher than a kite post the run. I had him scoped and there was no apparent blood. The next day I ran him on a bit of lasix and ace to drop his pressures-systemic and pulmonary. He ran great again and went into the arena much better due to the ace but still "hit the wall".
I got him home and took him to my vet. Told him to do a BAL and Trach wash. He was neg on the last and the BAL showed no COPD issues and just a slight trace of some blood. So he had indeed bled.
We made the decision to cut the muscles to the Hyoid bone and give him the time off to recover. He got plenty of time two months in fact and I took that time to balance his body with EO's. I rode him for two weeks and ran him at a JP where he was second to the great mare Stoli My Guy by a whisker. He recovered great and gave me no indication of a bleed but I decided to scope him the next morning-no apparent bleed. Due to personal issues he had another 2 months off and I ran him this weekend in slack at a rodeo. He smoked a run but over worked the 2nd. My prayers were answered when he recoved well. I'm hoping that the flapper issue has been resolved and he can go on with his career. |
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boon
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| I have a mare that was diagnosed as a grade 1 roarer back in June. My vet suggested acupuncture and I decided to try it (what the hell, right?). She got weekly acupuncture for about 6 weeks and at the end of it, you would never know she had been 'roaring.' Before treatment she could be heard a few stalls down in the barn when she was eating and if asked to break at the poll would begin roaring, and after, no noise at all!
After treatments stopped, I continued to do exercises the build her wind up and have only began having issues again now that she has been on stall rest (unrelated injury). |
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Location: Southern Indiana | We did the tie back surgery on one years ago like early 2000's. It worked like a charm. He still made the noise, but never had any issues breathing. |
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Location: "Si Fi" Ville | I would spend the money and take the time to go for the scope they do while horse is exercising. I have a horse that is a pasture pet because he was ran with that problem for too long before it was discovered. He started ducking and running off. He will not run barrels now even with it fixed. |
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Location: Louisiana | I have a six year old mare I suspect my have a flapper issue. She roars a little and seems to toss her head a lot during exercise. Has anyone else notice the head tossing |
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boon
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| My mare would toss her head whenever I asked her to break at the poll. I believe it was because at the angle I would ask she would have a harder time breathing. |
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| Ok, I've had my mare scoped twice with regular scoping, the exercise scope, & they have done a BAL. All of this has come back negative as for anything wrong with her airway passages, flapper & any OCPD problems. I have worked her on ventepulim as well & no change. $2000 later from all of these test & still no answers.  |
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