Tam VanderWerf
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Our family, along with Barb and Randy Naylor of Myakka, Florida, would like to express our gratitude for your kind words and prayers for our mare, Hunt House Farms Spring 4 A Buck, who crossed the Rainbow Bridge about 8:00 a.m. this morning.
My husband, Dan, is at University of Tennessee Equine Hospital with Spring's body to have a necropsy performed to hopefully reveal the cause of her death.
I found Spring Tuesday afternoon laying down in the doorway to the barn. Since then her blood was tested and we were treating her for an infection. Yesterday she did very well - she had no temperature and was enjoying some grazing time.
I started watching her just before 5 a.m. this morning because she was laying down and then would do a partial roll as if she was positioning her foal to abort it. I started calling the vet because she looked to be in discomfort. I was waiting for the vet to return my call, so I gave her a shot of Banamine to relieve her discomfort. A few minutes later Spring appeared to be getting in to more distress, plus was getting diarreha, Dan called UT while in the process of hooking the trailer. It those few minutes (5-10) Spring went down hill very fast and began staggering in her stall and laid down. Dan went right in and was checking her with his stethoscope, but then he came out about two minutes later with tears in his eyes and said she was gone.
Hopefully we will have some answers why we lost her. I can't believe this has happened. We also have other horses with loose stools, so we may have something getting ready to go through our herd. We are so shook up.
Again, thank you all for everything. You are a wonderful group. I will post the results of the necropsy when we receive them.
My husband, Dan, is at University of Tennessee Equine Hospital with Spring's body to have a necropsy performed to hopefully reveal the cause of her death.
I found Spring Tuesday afternoon laying down in the doorway to the barn. Since then her blood was tested and we were treating her for an infection. Yesterday she did very well - she had no temperature and was enjoying some grazing time.
I started watching her just before 5 a.m. this morning because she was laying down and then would do a partial roll as if she was positioning her foal to abort it. I started calling the vet because she looked to be in discomfort. I was waiting for the vet to return my call, so I gave her a shot of Banamine to relieve her discomfort. A few minutes later Spring appeared to be getting in to more distress, plus was getting diarreha, Dan called UT while in the process of hooking the trailer. It those few minutes (5-10) Spring went down hill very fast and began staggering in her stall and laid down. Dan went right in and was checking her with his stethoscope, but then he came out about two minutes later with tears in his eyes and said she was gone.
Hopefully we will have some answers why we lost her. I can't believe this has happened. We also have other horses with loose stools, so we may have something getting ready to go through our herd. We are so shook up.
Again, thank you all for everything. You are a wonderful group. I will post the results of the necropsy when we receive them.
