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| I have not had my good mare a year. Got her last July and so this is the first " Spring" season so I am not sure what she has done in the past. She is on curost total and when its blooming season and wind is blowing she has an intermittant cough. I am hoping that soon, when all the green dries up I bet she stops. She never coughs when I ride or compete, just once in a while in her pen, or when she eats. I soak ALL her hay, wet her little bit of grain down etc. Is there anything else I can do in the short term until everything dries out??? Benadryl??? Thanks! |
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Location: Southern Indiana | In all honesty I find my nebulizer will help mine cut back on the coughing for a few days. By no means are they a cure, but I am reminded every time I use that thing that it does help.
My horse has been coughing quite a bit lately so I decided to give him a couple of treatments...one Saturday and one Sunday. I hadn't heard him cough again until yesterday. Granted I'm usually only around at feeding time and I'm sure he still coughed some but before he I was hearing him cough atleast a few times when I was feeding.
I do agree there's only so much you can do, they are still going to cough it's just a matter of keeping it on a controlled level. |
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| Wind aid from Hawthorne Products is seriously a life saver. It helps tremendously for horses with COPD, chronic coughs, or any type of allergies. (seasonal, or not) |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Wanna see barrel racers panic...have a horse cough in the warm up pen...lol......flit i have had good luck with cough free..its a powder and stops the cough.....m |
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| mruggles - 2017-03-31 11:09 AM
Wanna see barrel racers panic...have a horse cough in the warm up pen...lol......flit i have had good luck with cough free..its a powder and stops the cough.....m
Yea I have seen that !!! LOL You can clear out a warm up pen in nothing flat. LOL I have used cough free in the past and there is no way a horse will eat it on feed but I bet I could paste it. I think this is short term, just until grass turns brown and its well on its way already! :) She never had a cough all summer, fall, or winter. |
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| not to steal your thread but my gelding coughs like clockwork. Get on, walk him out for however long (doesn't matter) and then ask for a trot..takes maybe 3 trot strides and coughs. He will cough maybe 4 or 5 times and then sneeze (EVERY TIME) and then he's done for the rest of the ride no matter if you are working, running or just lollygagging around the yard. I've just chalked it up to a weird thing he does, but it's truly gone on for like 4 summers... Now I wonder if he's got some issue that could be hindering his performance?
No other outward symptoms of anything, seems perfectly healthy. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Mine will lick it out of the container...lol.but she is a wierd duck |
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| This is going to sounds really strange, and I have no idea why...but every time mine start to cough is when I know it's time to worm them! Every time they cough, I worm them, and they stop coughing =] Until a few months later haha Maybe its just a coincidence? |
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| Katielovestbs - 2017-03-31 12:04 PM
This is going to sounds really strange, and I have no idea why...but every time mine start to cough is when I know it's time to worm them! Every time they cough, I worm them, and they stop coughing =] Until a few months later haha Maybe its just a coincidence?
Correct, mine was just recently wormed so I don't think thats it. We have had a really really wet winter out here and everything is so green and last night the wind blew like 30mph so I have no doubt that stuff is just blowing around. LOL I am going to pick up a jar of cough free and paste her with it. She was cough free from Sunday to last night so I bet that wind ampted her up. Thanks! |
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| Is it possible that sometimes they get a tickle in their throat like we do? Or how about a dry throat? If it's windy there are dust particles blowing. I'm sure they inhale dust particles from grazing. One cough isn't enough to scare me. As for the round pen coughing, can you blame them it's dusty sometimes LOL |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | My gelding has a partially obstructed esophagus. It is like stuff kind of hangs in that obstruction. He will usually always cough when I am warming him up The cough clears whatever is in his throat and he is good to go. |
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Location: Texas | My mares cough a bit during the spring but they also suffer from allergies. I don't worry about it too much. |
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| I hate to say this but watering hay may not be a enough.. it takes down dust but it doesn't keep the horse from being exposed to mold and fungal spores. Maybe try making a hay steamer out of a tote and wall paper steamer. You can make one for a 100 bucks and there is references on YouTube. Sterilizing your hay to kill the spores maybe a better way. I've had two older horses with pretty bad heaves and it is not fun to deal with once you get to the point when they are older and they struggle with air. Then you have to make a choice. And they were both fed good hay through out their whole life. We just pulled our 24 year old off of hay. Not because he's 24 but because watering, steaming.. Nothing was helping. He was living on dex and albuterol. His disease is way more advanced and unless we can get him in remission by pulling hay and feeding chaff and soaked cubes his quality of life is going to be very poor. I wish I would have pulled hay sooner.... Like when he was in his teens and would have known better since the damage of chronic inflammation in heaves only gets worse if they keep getting exposed to the allergy.----- |
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| star1218 - 2017-03-31 1:22 PM
not to steal your thread but my gelding coughs like clockwork. Get on, walk him out for however long (doesn't matter) and then ask for a trot..takes maybe 3 trot strides and coughs. He will cough maybe 4 or 5 times and then sneeze (EVERY TIME) and then he's done for the rest of the ride no matter if you are working, running or just lollygagging around the yard. I've just chalked it up to a weird thing he does, but it's truly gone on for like 4 summers... Now I wonder if he's got some issue that could be hindering his performance?
No other outward symptoms of anything, seems perfectly healthy.
Mine does the exact same thing, 4 or 5 coughs then sneezes. He's done it since I got him, it was worse when I had him stalled indoors for the WI winter. He did it every once in awhile in AZ too. I never really worried about it, he's healthy other than a very intermittent cough. We cough every once in awhile too to clear stuff out so I don't see how horses are much different. |
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Location: Phoenix | WiscoRacer - 2017-04-01 8:21 AM star1218 - 2017-03-31 1:22 PM not to steal your thread but my gelding coughs like clockwork. Get on, walk him out for however long (doesn't matter) and then ask for a trot..takes maybe 3 trot strides and coughs. He will cough maybe 4 or 5 times and then sneeze (EVERY TIME) and then he's done for the rest of the ride no matter if you are working, running or just lollygagging around the yard. I've just chalked it up to a weird thing he does, but it's truly gone on for like 4 summers... Now I wonder if he's got some issue that could be hindering his performance? No other outward symptoms of anything, seems perfectly healthy. Mine does the exact same thing, 4 or 5 coughs then sneezes. He's done it since I got him, it was worse when I had him stalled indoors for the WI winter. He did it every once in awhile in AZ too. I never really worried about it, he's healthy other than a very intermittent cough. We cough every once in awhile too to clear stuff out so I don't see how horses are much different.
Same!
I do find that dosing with yellow table/hotdog mustard helps but I'm not set up to feed that everyday so I don't worry about it. But it does help.
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| I started her on Forefront respiratory AND wind has died down. ZERO coughing last couple days. Hers IS DUST related.. Should be good now! |
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Location: Oklahoma | Hay cubes; mustard 2xs day on feed( I do alfalfa pellets as well) . My pellets are ground smaller at mill and a tiny bit of molasses added for allergy types n seniors. I stay away from dusty warm up areas. I add Vit C and flax oil and a vitamin mineral mix.
Absolutely no hay, not worth it. I use Flairs and wind aid paste at shows. There are other products but too costly for me!
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| Remuda - 2017-04-03 9:07 AM
Hay cubes; mustard 2xs day on feed( I do alfalfa pellets as well) . My pellets are ground smaller at mill and a tiny bit of molasses added for allergy types n seniors. I stay away from dusty warm up areas. I add Vit C and flax oil and a vitamin mineral mix.
Absolutely no hay, not worth it. I use Flairs and wind aid paste at shows. There are other products but too costly for me!
Thats a good program except I worry about choke with cubes and quality of cubes. I don't want to feed my horse the bottom of the feedbarrel turned into a cube. I can't get the Danco or Omnis out here in CA. And I like to leave Grass hay in front of my horses 24/7 to prevent ulcers. |
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