I was able to bring him home today! I am 99% sure it was a combination of the coarser hay and lack of drinking. Yesterday we had a scare with my mare. Got her through it but not without banamine, several liquid slurries with all kinds of tummy aids in it, walking and having to empty out the firm contents of her back end manually. My husbands jaw just dropped, all I could say was, " really, you should know better by now, if i can do it and it needs to be done, it needs to be done". We've been married for 16 years and together for 20, he knows better, LOL.
Thank you all for your prayers. Got several bails of soft Timothy field grass mix from another farm I sometimes deal with as well as the soaked alfalfa cubes. I hate to switch hay guys, such a great family that has been through a lot this year. They are going to let me know if they can manage some softer hay from another one of their barns, in the meantime, if I can't swap out the hay, looks like the owner of the skinny cows down the road will be gifted 20 bails of cattle quality hay.