Came out to the barn yesterday and found my Modern filly Nefertiti doing a "dead horse impression." She will be 2 in May - she was on her back with her legs in the air the way colicky foals will position themselves.
Got her to her feet, found no manure in stall, her dinner had been eaten, some water consumed. Minimal gut sounds...but this happens to us every so often with one of our girls so we began the colic routine.
Put her outside and we went for a walk... then gave her a Banamine shot and walked some more. 30 minutes later she was thinking about eating and the desire to lie down and or roll was gone - she wasn't so much interested in rolling as she was interested in doing the dead horse impression. Followed up with our veterinarian for her suggestions...Freedom usually does this but I have been getting the water down her. Nefertiti is on a wet diet due to her paralyzed tongue.
Weatherly and Enterprise kept her moving through the day...some manure in her stall...appetite came back... tried to give her some oil and ended up with more of it on me so I would guess she is feeling better.
Nefertiti has a shiny coat on her slurry diet... just have to play with it some more as I am thinking the soaked beet pulp may have had something to do with it - Freedom was on it but still colicked and she eventually did better on soaked alfalfa cubes with a lot of "juice" in it.
Her trot is beautiful - she has never worn anything to enhance her trot like stretchies or shoes (yet)... looking forward to showing her in 2008.
Whew!
Denise
Silversong Farm
Got her to her feet, found no manure in stall, her dinner had been eaten, some water consumed. Minimal gut sounds...but this happens to us every so often with one of our girls so we began the colic routine.
Put her outside and we went for a walk... then gave her a Banamine shot and walked some more. 30 minutes later she was thinking about eating and the desire to lie down and or roll was gone - she wasn't so much interested in rolling as she was interested in doing the dead horse impression. Followed up with our veterinarian for her suggestions...Freedom usually does this but I have been getting the water down her. Nefertiti is on a wet diet due to her paralyzed tongue.
Weatherly and Enterprise kept her moving through the day...some manure in her stall...appetite came back... tried to give her some oil and ended up with more of it on me so I would guess she is feeling better.
Nefertiti has a shiny coat on her slurry diet... just have to play with it some more as I am thinking the soaked beet pulp may have had something to do with it - Freedom was on it but still colicked and she eventually did better on soaked alfalfa cubes with a lot of "juice" in it.
Her trot is beautiful - she has never worn anything to enhance her trot like stretchies or shoes (yet)... looking forward to showing her in 2008.
Whew!
Denise
Silversong Farm