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| I've got an older gelding that I've noticed really breathing heavy after a run. He recover's relatively quickly, but it's like he just can't get enough oxygen fast enough. He's legged up, and we're an older team running 4 or 5 d so we are not going that fast. I live in N. Texas and we've had a lot of respiratory system issues this summer. Has anyone else experienced an issue similar to this? I'm thinking a touch of heaves, or maybe something else is going on. |
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| That just happened to me last weekend! My horse is 17 , Ive owned her all off her life and this is the 1 st time Ive noticed this! I don't know is its because its dry? I did do a couple of breathing treatments on her and seems to help. I'm going to run her this weekend with a breathing treatment prior and if she does it again I guess I'll take her to the vet. She's not coughing or bleeding at least on the outside either and is running her usual times. I don't know either??? |
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| HELLO ... multiple the age of your horse by 3 ...
17 x 3 = 51 human years ..
So ... that is what you get as a horse or human ages ....
no one remains a teenager forever!!
They are showing their age along with how they have been used
over the years ....... I might do nose strips but no meds to
cover up how they are feeling.
Just sit there and enjoy the ride and wish you had started
you a younger horse 5 years ago ...
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| Any cough? I would scope him
edited to add I know lots of older horses who are still running great.
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Location: Central Texas | Definitely scope him. I scoped my 17 yr old mare and she has nasopharyngeal tracheal cicatrix AND an infection |
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| My is running great and has not been run to death. The only vet care besides teeth, worming etc, she has ever had is her hocks have been injected 2x! Just thought it was odd. I know 2 adult humans that have had severe asthma attacks this week. I think it is something in the air! |
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Location: Gonzales texas | Marfan - 2016-10-07 8:43 AM
Definitely scope him. I scoped my 17 yr old mare and she has nasopharyngeal tracheal cicatrix AND an infection
I'm sorry about this. Please like my page and post your experiences.
https://www.facebook.com/equinecicatrix/ There are some promising treatments in the testing stages. There's a link on there to one and I'll be posting another as soon as I verify the info. To the OP- it's a good idea to follow the advice here and get them scoped. Don't mess around! |
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Location: Central Texas | shelltc - 2016-10-07 3:15 PM Marfan - 2016-10-07 8:43 AM Definitely scope him. I scoped my 17 yr old mare and she has nasopharyngeal tracheal cicatrix AND an infection I'm sorry about this. Please like my page and post your experiences. https://www.facebook.com/equinecicatrix/ There are some promising treatments in the testing stages. There's a link on there to one and I'll be posting another as soon as I verify the info. To the OP- it's a good idea to follow the advice here and get them scoped. Don't mess around!
Thanks for the invite. I'm already on there and have posted a little info. I sure appreciate you starting the page and educating the rest of us!
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Location: Gonzales texas | Marfan - 2016-10-07 3:19 PM
shelltc - 2016-10-07 3:15 PM Marfan - 2016-10-07 8:43 AM Definitely scope him. I scoped my 17 yr old mare and she has nasopharyngeal tracheal cicatrix AND an infection I'm sorry about this. Please like my page and post your experiences. https://www.facebook.com/equinecicatrix/ There are some promising treatments in the testing stages. There's a link on there to one and I'll be posting another as soon as I verify the info. To the OP- it's a good idea to follow the advice here and get them scoped. Don't mess around!
Karen Finley
Hi Karen! I didn't recognize you! :) |
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| Well.....I've tried to start 2, one was a total wash out with back issues, apparently the 'best leg vet in _____' couldn't find a back issue on the pre-purchase. The second so cheap I'd have spent more on the vet check than the horse...he has kissing spine. Then I've had some serious health issues myself recently and I'm way burnin' daylight here at my age. Basically a big ol' train wreck around my house. My daughter and I have 5 horses between us and the 21 year old is the soundest thing we have.....sad, sad.
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| Thanks everyone for the information. After I read the responses, it prompted me to think back on what he'd had as well as do some more research on the symptoms. I wasn't too worried at first when I noticed this because he was a bit out of shape, and recovered really quickly, it was just right after the run he was so winded. But I'm sure you all know how it works, once you really stop and think about things, it all falls into place, and you're like dang it, why didn't I pay attention.
I sent him to live with my oldest grandaughter a year or so ago, but stole him back this summer. She's into soccer and a boy friend and the horse just hung out. I rode him a few months, but am a fair weather rider and I'm taking him back to my daughter's house to be a pasture ornament for a while, but in a few months we'll start to dig into this, scope, etc. Although the older granddaughter isn't really that interested, I've got another young one coming up, so he'll be a great youth horse here in another year or so.
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Well.....I've tried to start 2, one was a total wash out with back issues, apparently the 'best leg vet in _____' couldn't find a back issue on the pre-purchase. The second so cheap I'd have spent more on the vet check than the horse...he has kissing spine. Then I've had some serious health issues myself recently and I'm way burnin' daylight here at my age. Basically a big ol' train wreck around my house. My daughter and I have 5 horses between us and the 21 year old is the soundest thing we have.....sad, sad.
I'm in the same shape. My 18 year old just keeps going. All the young ones have issues. I feel your pain. |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | donk - 2016-10-07 2:10 PM My is running great and has not been run to death. The only vet care besides teeth, worming etc, she has ever had is her hocks have been injected 2x! Just thought it was odd. I know 2 adult humans that have had severe asthma attacks this week. I think it is something in the air!
We live outside of San Antonio and my husband and I have been having trouble with breathing, sinus etc. They say the allergens aren't that bad but I know too many people having the same trouble as we are...so there is something in the air down here. |
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| That is a point, we've had a horse at the barn that has bad heaves, I've had some bronchitis, but somehow, I don't think that is it for my guy. Once he get's moved down to the Houston area, and stays there a while, we'll scope him and see what may be in there.
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| I know, isn't that just the way some of these senior citizens are? This gelding is an own son of Bully Bullion, looks almost exactly like his dad. Strong, good bone, very correct confirmation wise. I think those things help as they age, and he's very stoic so he's got some aches and pains, but powers through. And that's one thing that concerns me, he may be struggling to breath but will still try to work.
Last year he was clocking in the top of the 2d with my granddaughter. He's got way more in the tank than I've been asking for, I'm trying to get to back to normal myself after only a few competition runs in about 3 years. |
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Location: Texas | This summer, and start of Fall especially, we have seen a lot of RAO coming into the vet school. And lots of anhydrosis this summer. This summer has been tough on a lot of horses who before this summer have never had issues with sweating or with heaves. If he continues to do it after you condition him and after it cools down, I could go ahead and scope. I can't wait for everything to cool down.
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Location: Gonzales texas | casualdust07 - 2016-10-08 8:42 AM
This summer, and start of Fall especially, we have seen a lot of RAO coming into the vet school. And lots of anhydrosis this summer. This summer has been tough on a lot of horses who before this summer have never had issues with sweating or with heaves. If he continues to do it after you condition him and after it cools down, I could go ahead and scope. I can't wait for everything to cool down.
Casualdust Please like my Cicatrix page if you haven't already and post any advice/news etc. it would be great to have your input. There's a new broad spectrum Pythium vaccine in the patent stage. And a nebulizing treatment. They sound promising.
https://www.facebook.com/equinecicatrix/ |
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| Heart murmur? Had a filly that no matter how much I rode her or exercised her to try and build lung stamina she breathed heavily. Took her to vet and she had a grade 5 heart murmur. It's not always respiratory. Best of luck |
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| Mine arnt in as good of shape probably as they should be. Ive got a fat gelding who stays fat all the time. My horse I ride often will get winded quick. He recovers quick also. He has some scar tissue in his lungs from an infection. Its better if I keep him legged up. I have started giving him Vetipulim (i know I butchered the spelling) it helps.
But then again I tend to breathe harder than he dose after the run. |
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