Windstorm Minis
Well-Known Member
I wanted to post this for everyone's information, it may not be a "new" thing, but it was for me.
A couple weeks ago I sold a 15 year old, 30", mini mare to a lady. A week after getting her home she called me to say that she came home from work and found the mare dead with a foal part-way delivered. (she wasn't due until next year)
She had a necropsy done and the vet said she colicked, stomach ruptured - from a HAIR BALL the size of a soft ball!!
Found long white hair - he figured it had been building up for a while.
I never, ever saw this mare eat a mane or tail - only had 2 minis with white hair and their manes and tails were never eaten, so don't know if this started before I bought her or if maybe mane or tail hair was "snagged" on a fence and she ate it...just have no idea.
She never, ever showed any signs of colic with me, or discomfort - nothing. She was a super friendly mare and that never changed a single day that I had her. She was a little overweight, but other than that nothing ever wrong.
She aborted a filly.
I'm wondering if she lasted with me because I don't feed hay - short grass pasture, beet pulp, small complete pellet, alfalfa cubes - which would all be "small" when it hit the stomach and maybe pass through and then she got hay, which may have caused a blockage?
I don't know - whole thing is strange, but I wanted to give you all the info - the "hair ball" really blew me away.
Have any of you ever experienced this or even heard of this?
Sorry, I can't spell today.
A couple weeks ago I sold a 15 year old, 30", mini mare to a lady. A week after getting her home she called me to say that she came home from work and found the mare dead with a foal part-way delivered. (she wasn't due until next year)
She had a necropsy done and the vet said she colicked, stomach ruptured - from a HAIR BALL the size of a soft ball!!
Found long white hair - he figured it had been building up for a while.
I never, ever saw this mare eat a mane or tail - only had 2 minis with white hair and their manes and tails were never eaten, so don't know if this started before I bought her or if maybe mane or tail hair was "snagged" on a fence and she ate it...just have no idea.
She never, ever showed any signs of colic with me, or discomfort - nothing. She was a super friendly mare and that never changed a single day that I had her. She was a little overweight, but other than that nothing ever wrong.
She aborted a filly.
I'm wondering if she lasted with me because I don't feed hay - short grass pasture, beet pulp, small complete pellet, alfalfa cubes - which would all be "small" when it hit the stomach and maybe pass through and then she got hay, which may have caused a blockage?
I don't know - whole thing is strange, but I wanted to give you all the info - the "hair ball" really blew me away.
Have any of you ever experienced this or even heard of this?
Sorry, I can't spell today.