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Location: Soon to be outta here:) | Almost exactly 5 weeks ago I took my horse to a barrel race, and at that race we hit third barrel and it rolled in front of my mare and she tried to jump over it and it rolled up under her and got her right behind her left front, and she kind of landed on it with the back of her belly (its kind of hard to explain, but it hit the back of her belly right behind where a back cinch would sit). That was on Saturday. She wasn't lame and seemed alright. We got home Sunday night and everything seemed alright. Monday afternoon I noticed that she was acting like she was in heat (she has really bad heat cycles and leans on walls or gates with her hip) which I thought was weird because she had come into heat not too long before this. When I went to feed her Tuesday I noticed she hadn't, I have no word better for it than pooped, at all. I thought it was strange but didn't freak out a whole ton. I gave her a little less than normal of her feed and let her be. The next morning she still hadn't pooped so I called the vet. She wasn't laying down or wanting to roll, she was still wanting to eat and drinking, just leaning on walls and squatting like she was in heat and not pooping. So my local vet came out, and treatment wasn't working so I hauled her into a clinic and they said that it seemed like she was dehydrated and that's why she wasn't able to pass anything. They put her on fluids and kept her the weekend. She just came home 4 weeks ago and she's seemed fine to me... She has been pooping regularly, and seemed normal.
Now for the weird things....I have only ridden her a handful of times, and she acted normal while I was riding her, but when I would unsaddle her she would stretch out like a gelding that's going to pee. I was using a friends saddle that I don't think fit her the best, so I attributed it to that and thought she was maybe just sore from being run all season. I took her to her chiropractor and she got worked on and my chio said she looked good. But she still did the stretching out like a gelding peeing thing when I rode her after the trip to the chiro.
This last week I noticed her acting like she was in heat again, squatting and peeing and leaning on walls again. She's been pooping really good, so I thought maybe she just came into heat again. But I first noticed her being in heat again about 10 days ago. In the last few days she hasn't been squatting and peeing or leaning on the walls as much, but still a little. Ive also noticed on the side where we hit that barrel she's sensitive when I touch her belly. She will pin her ears and move away. When I bought her she had ulcers really bad and hated to be touched anywhere, so I figured that might be it again with all of the moving around we did (I moved her to a barn where she could be watched closer after she got sick), so I treated her for ulcers for a week (I stopped treating her 6 days ago) but I didn't see any improvement.
So, I am getting kind of worried. Could hitting that barrel like we did have caused some sort of damage back there that is causing her to not want to be touched? Something internal? When I hauled her to the vet when she was colicing he said that leaning on walls like she was doing is a sign of abdominal pain too, so now I'm worried that she's not actually in heat this time and that theres something going on internally. Should I be taking her to the vet again to have them check her over? I have a tendency to over worry... so id like other peoples opinions before I totally freak out haha! | |
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| Treating ulcers for a week is not enough. I would treat her with digestive URL for the full 60 days. Stretching out like that is either because her stomach is hurting or I've seen them do that with tying up. I would makes sure she us in a low starch feed. , alfalfa hay and Timothy hay. Have you had her palpated? She could have a cyst on her ovaries.
Edited by readytorodeo 2014-11-08 7:35 AM
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| I agree with trying the ulcer treatment for a longer period of time. Sometimes if they are bad enough you wont see a change in less than 2 weeks on meds. Even then, the horse usually needs 30 days of treatment. In my experience, the horses I have had that had ulcers- once cured, came back often without being on preventative meds/ supps. | |
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