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Date Posted: 09:40:27 12/23/02 Mon
Author: Tiffini
Subject: Very important!
In reply to: ALVENA 's message, "COLIC" on 12:00:32 12/19/02 Thu

Are you feeding him anything other than hay?


>I have a horse that since this summer I have been in
>care of ... he is my mom's horse and all i knoew of
>him wass that he had been foundered. He also wind
>sucks in the true since of the word! we were able to
>keep him in and area this summer where he had nothing
>he could hook his teeth on and he did verry well. he
>was also 50-60 lbs underweight when he came. he is now
>up to proper weight but we have needed to turn him in
>so he can get in to the barn for shelter as it is and
>can be verry cold where we live. a frind of mine told
>me to use dishsoap to keep him from chewing and
>sucking on the barn and it seamed to be working. but
>now I can see where he is sucking agian. he is feed
>good grass hay we raised it our selfs and we check
>every time we feed to make shure it has NO MOLD.we
>have had to make him be in a pasture and stall buy him
>self because all we have is mares and he run's himself
>and them all the time. But he is fenced right next to
>them so he is not lonly and we let him out on the
>weekends to play with the girls when we can watch them
>to make shure no one get's hurt! sory this is so long
>but trying to give a history so you can maby help me
>beter.
>Last sunday we let him (Tig.) out with the girls and
>he ran and played and seemed to be just fine... we
>brought him back to his pasture and he was fine ...
>about 4 hr's later I looked out to see him on the
>ground and he was breathing like a freight traing !!
>with sweat all over him!!! I ran out side and called
>the vet on my cell phone right away and got him up and
>started to walk him ... he was in a lot of pain you
>could tell ! ( I had never seen colic befor) so vet
>came out tubed him and gave him as the vet said very
>high doses of pain killers and Banimine. he told me he
>was very bad off ..........when he left he said he
>would probly be back in an hr to put him down!!! boy
>was i scared !!! I walked him for about 4 hr's and he
>pulled through I also stayed up all night and checked
>on in every 20 min. or so !!! now he seam's to be
>doing fine and the vet has recomended we put him on
>daily worming ... we have and also have put my 3
>mare's on it to ... water troughs are also heated and
>all seem to be drinking well.
>I have found out through talking to my mom that he has
>beed foundered 3 times and has cloic several times
>befor and they did not know what it was !! but walked
>him and he got better!!
>I am so scared he will do this agian !!! I don't want
>to do any thing to cause this or not do something I
>should have so am trying to educate my self as best I
>can so I will be a good care taker of him !! it would
>break my hart if he died and I had not done all I
>could to prevent it !! PLEASE HELP!!

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