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StarRidgeAcres
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I lost another horse tonight. I just can't believe it.
I'm still just in shock.
I was feeding as usual tonight and I have one mare that has been eating by herself for a couple of months due to trying to control her diet because she showed many signs of being insulin resistant. She was only allowed special hay that I also had to soak before she ate it since I was trying to reduce the sugars she was taking in. I took her into a make-shift stall I've been using for this purpose, fed her her hay and was going about my watering when I heard a loud crash sound. I ran into the barn to find her down as if her legs had just buckled. Her front end was laying on its side but her back feet and legs were just crumpled underneath her. I pushed her backend over onto its side and started to look around on her and around her to see what was wrong. She wasn't doing anything but her eyes were open and were fluttering a little. I felt for air out of her nose and there was some shallow breathing. I called the vet; he was on the way home so that made him only a few minutes away. I couldn't really feel any heartrate so I got my stethoscope and listened but there was only a faint heartbeat. She was gone in about 5 minutes or less. The vet confirmed she was gone when he got there.
I'm just beside myself. Although I wasn't as attached to this mare like I was Puddin' or Wiz, it's just shocking and heartbreaking to lose another one so soon.
We are not going to do a necropsy (I don't know if that's the right word or not) because I had to make the decision that it wasn't financially possible right now. Both the vet and I believe she probably had a heart attack and probably had heart disease or issues due to her obesity that made this the likely cause. I do not believe I have anything poisionous or anything environmental that has caused her or Wiz. I believe they were seperate issues that had to do with each horses' health and are not related.
I'm just stunned.
Godspeed Rhythm...aka SG Fascinating Rhythm. She was only about 14.
I was feeding as usual tonight and I have one mare that has been eating by herself for a couple of months due to trying to control her diet because she showed many signs of being insulin resistant. She was only allowed special hay that I also had to soak before she ate it since I was trying to reduce the sugars she was taking in. I took her into a make-shift stall I've been using for this purpose, fed her her hay and was going about my watering when I heard a loud crash sound. I ran into the barn to find her down as if her legs had just buckled. Her front end was laying on its side but her back feet and legs were just crumpled underneath her. I pushed her backend over onto its side and started to look around on her and around her to see what was wrong. She wasn't doing anything but her eyes were open and were fluttering a little. I felt for air out of her nose and there was some shallow breathing. I called the vet; he was on the way home so that made him only a few minutes away. I couldn't really feel any heartrate so I got my stethoscope and listened but there was only a faint heartbeat. She was gone in about 5 minutes or less. The vet confirmed she was gone when he got there.
I'm just beside myself. Although I wasn't as attached to this mare like I was Puddin' or Wiz, it's just shocking and heartbreaking to lose another one so soon.
We are not going to do a necropsy (I don't know if that's the right word or not) because I had to make the decision that it wasn't financially possible right now. Both the vet and I believe she probably had a heart attack and probably had heart disease or issues due to her obesity that made this the likely cause. I do not believe I have anything poisionous or anything environmental that has caused her or Wiz. I believe they were seperate issues that had to do with each horses' health and are not related.
I'm just stunned.
Godspeed Rhythm...aka SG Fascinating Rhythm. She was only about 14.
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