VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: [1], 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 21:07:47 01/08/09 Thu
Author: Sarah
Subject: Friesian Broodmare/Colic

I own a 13 year old Friesian mare. I have owned her for 3 years and she was imported from Holland to California. In researching her history she has had 9 foals. 3 of them are in my ownership and 6 prior to me. I decided to give her some time off. So after her July 08 foal I gave her a rest. In November she coliced. She had a slight displacement that had to be fixed with surgery. She then had a 360 degree torsion. She was opened twice in 24 hours for surgery. Luckily she is on the mend almost 60 days post surgery. The vet didn't find any impaction or explainable reason for the colic internaly. His best guess is that there was extra room in the abdominal cavity for the twisting to happen due to her not being in foal. We have now spent almost 10k to save her life and now her post surgery care. Does anyone have experience in this area or a similar situation that they could share? I don't want her to colic again. The vest said she could re-breed but I'm scared to risk it. Any thoughts?

Thank you for reading,
Sarah

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.