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Location: Probably On the Road to the Next Barrel Race! | My pony colicked ten days ago...been to the vet and oiled twice in first 4 days...he's been sort of getting progressively better,I think.? But vet said it was sand colic, been running Sand Clear through him for 7 days, and he is still walking funny and occasionally backing up or laying down. He is on pasture 24/7, and is eating and drinking good ( no grain). But he is definitely walking slow and walking funny in hind end...any ideas? Please let me know if any of you have ever experienced this... |
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Location: lone star state | Ulcers |
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Location: Bandera, TX | firewaterfuelsme - 2014-05-31 9:22 PM Ulcers
Ditto
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Probably On the Road to the Next Barrel Race! | Bump |
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| also...how difficult was it for him to try to pass the blockage? His intestine and rectum might just be sore and stretched from the strain. Imagine how uncomfortable THAT would be. And every time he defecates he is using those muscles...so it's STILL unable to fully rest. Just a theory. |
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The Advice Guru
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| I had one colic due being stung hundreds of times, we lost her 2 weeks to the day later due to a small perforated bowel.
I would suggest taking his temp, if there is any fever, I would be going back to the vet and having blood work drawn to see if there is an elevated white count and if the neutrophils are high.
It may not be colic at all, I had one who was acting colicky for a few days, took him to the vet and it was a kidney infection which we later found out he had a sebacious cyst in his sheath causing him pain when he urinated, once we lanced that, he was back to his normal self (we found this when he was sedated and I was cleaning his sheath) |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Probably On the Road to the Next Barrel Race! | Wow to all these wierd things...thank you please keep talking ... |
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Location: lone star state | Monitor heartrate. That is an indicator of pain intensity. Higher heartrate- more pain. |
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Location: "Si Fi" Ville | Maybe an enterolith? |
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| Hind gut ulcers. I would get some ulcer guard and give him a tube for 2weeks. Then go to the maintenance dose. |
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Location: I call the back seat on the short bus!! | Have you run a fecal sample to check for worms? Worm impaction can cause one to start off acting like this. Even if you've wormed regularly. Only so much a paste wormer can do. That often leads to other things like ulcers.
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  Ms. Manners
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Location: Oklahoma | Have you thought of getting another vet's opinion or an ultrasound of the abdomen and hindgut? |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I would be going to a different vet and see if they can find something that the other vet missed. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Southtxponygirl - 2014-06-01 11:09 AM I would be going to a different vet and see if they can find something that the other vet missed.
I agree.......It "can" happen and usually with BAD results......I would be taking that horse to another vet for a second opinion. |
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Location: Sunny So Cal | Did you have a CBC and chem panel done? It may tell you if something else is going on. unusually long time for colic, but sand does reck their insides pretty bad so it may just be a longer recovery time. My next guess would maybe be ulcers.
Edited by Cowgirl Kat 2014-06-02 1:23 PM
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Location: California | Impaction |
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 Tough Patooty
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Location: Sperry, OK | If you think in any way that your horse is still colicing.. Please do not let him eat anything!!! Not even grass!!! If he has a blockage, by letting him eat, you are making is a bigger blockage. I would first pull him off ALL food (grain, grass, hay, treats), then 2nd I would get him to a different vet quickly! |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | How is your horse doing today? Has anything changed? |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | ACEINTHEHOLE has great advice. My stud just did this last weekend. It was all mild symptoms, but he wasn't acting right. He was laying down more than normal and up and down, up and down. It was a holiday weekend and graduation around here to boot so it was hard to find a vet. Finally went to the top vet in the area and he said they can indeed colic for 3 days or so if it is an impaction. Should you do anything? well he said it was up to me, some pass it...some don't. I was nearly 3hrs away so decided to haul him in. He ultrasounded and all that good stuff, gave him epsom salts and some other things through a tube and sent me home. Gave me pain meds for him and said if he didn't pass it within around 12 hrs to see another (hopefully closer) vet and have him mineral oiled. Well he never got worse, but never better so I took him in the next afternoon and had him oiled. Sometime that night he went to pooping and never stopped all morning. Lots of loose stools after the impacted dry poo came out. I was tickled pink. His vitals never worsened and he never showed any signs of distress. The kicking at his belly when he was standing freaked me out pretty bad, but he still drank well and wanted to eat. I never let him eat though per the vets advice. I don't know if it was harder on me seeing him so hungry or him being so hungry. Happy ending is he is now out in pasture breeding his mares. Phew it was a long long weekend...as for 10 days I wouldn't think that would be good. |
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Location: NOT at Wal Mart | This pony needs a belly tap, ASAP. |
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