CAM
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Last night when I went to the barn I noticed our kids' pony was stretched out like a park horse in the barn and as I watched she started rocking back and forth on her front and back legs. Uh oh! Not a good sign. :no: Pony is around 30 years old, 12.2h and has really starting to show her age this past year. She has been so healthy for us until now and she is just the sweetest horse. She used to do the PeeWee Rodeo: barrels and poles and has given our kids many safe trail rides. She is also the grandma pony when we wean our Half-Arab foals. She will even let them attempt to nurse off of her and will raise her leg so they can do so. They are as tall as she is!
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I have been on the phone off and on with the vet. Her temp is normal, no digital pulse, feet aren't hot, no foot pain. Her coat is not shedding out well this year either so the vet thought it might be an endocrine imbalance with a secondary founder issue. However, while I was on the phone with the vet this afternoon, pony started really bunching up in her back end and lifting her back feet up to her tummy and yawning. I told the vet is seems more like colic. She agreed. She has also been up and down with no rolling. She does have gut sounds but I have noticed no manure recently.
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She was at a point today where she wouldn't eat. Stood in the pasture while the others grazed and wouldn't take her medicine or grain. She was given banamine last night and vet said try bute today. Now that she thinks it could be a colic she suggested banamine again this evening. Please say a prayer for our sweet pony Ginger. We are suppose to leave on vacation Wednesday and will be out of cell phone range for a week starting Sunday! The vet asked that I go online and fill out there authorization form listing who is able to determine what we are willing to spend to take care of our pony and authorization to euthanize if we are unreachable.
Please keep her in your prayers.
I have been on the phone off and on with the vet. Her temp is normal, no digital pulse, feet aren't hot, no foot pain. Her coat is not shedding out well this year either so the vet thought it might be an endocrine imbalance with a secondary founder issue. However, while I was on the phone with the vet this afternoon, pony started really bunching up in her back end and lifting her back feet up to her tummy and yawning. I told the vet is seems more like colic. She agreed. She has also been up and down with no rolling. She does have gut sounds but I have noticed no manure recently.
She was at a point today where she wouldn't eat. Stood in the pasture while the others grazed and wouldn't take her medicine or grain. She was given banamine last night and vet said try bute today. Now that she thinks it could be a colic she suggested banamine again this evening. Please say a prayer for our sweet pony Ginger. We are suppose to leave on vacation Wednesday and will be out of cell phone range for a week starting Sunday! The vet asked that I go online and fill out there authorization form listing who is able to determine what we are willing to spend to take care of our pony and authorization to euthanize if we are unreachable.