lovethelittles
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This is a long story so please bear with me. I purchased a mini stallion at an auction in August, he had been breeding so he was very thin. He kept rubbing his butt on the stall walls so I figured he needed deworming which I did. On October 19th, he was very listless and wouldn't eat, then he started rolling and I know colic when I see it. I gave him banamine and headed for the Vet. After tubing, more banamine and the vet saying that's all she could do I took him home. We got up to check him every hr during the night and gave him more banamine whenever he looked uncomfortable. After about 3 days he was out of the woods and well on his way to recooperating and I noticed a open wound on his back end under his tail, it was about the size of a quarter and looked very infected. I cleaned up the wound and put triple antibiotic ointment on it, started him on penicillian and got that cleared up after about a week. Yestday I went out to feed and there he was standing against the wall rubbing again. I put his food in and he would touch it. I felt around on his backside to see if maybe he had gotten a splinter (which is what I thought cause the first one) and felt a small soft bump. I didn't have a way to contain him so I could get a look at it, so I was waiting for my daughter to get home to help me. In the meantime he layed flat down on his side with his head out like he was dying. I got him up, gave him some banamine and started walking him. When my daughter got home we got a look at the bump, by then the banmine was taking effect so she lanced the bump and I squeezed about a tsp of yellow pastey stuff from the cut. I washed it up, put triple antibiotic on it and later gave him another dose of banimine. Today he seem just fine again. I truly think we avoided another all out stress colic attack. Has anyone ever had any experience with these bumps/boils? When the weather gets better, I'm going to get him to the vet to do a culture, but for now I was just wondering if anyone knows anything about this.