I thought I would post this here because I want to let others know what I've just experienced....
December 29 I lost my 21yo. stallion Andrews Ameigo to what appeard to be a compaction colic. The vet treated him for this. A few hours before he died I noticed a green/yellowish puss looking stuff running down his sheath and some coming out of his bottom. It was late so I decided to wait till morning to call the vet. The next morning he was dead. So thinking it was colic I gave his food, that he hardly touched to one of the mares and then I put my little black filly in his corral. :no: I noticed that the mare that ate his leftovers was laying around alot. Within 5 days my filly came down with what looked like colic. We rushed her to the vet. He gave her some oil, laxatives, and shots for pain. Still nothing The next day I called him he had us give her another pain shot to keep her from rolling and give her some enemas. So I did. She went 6 days not eating or pooping. I felt lost.
I didn't want to give her more oil or anything else for colic because I didn't think it was. I asked for help here, and started feeling like maybe it was colic. The next morning I called another vet and she said it sounded like a stone or compaction. I called our vet to let him know, and he said bring her in again. He put more oil down her and even more laxatives and gave her a DSS enema. It only puffed her up more she looked like a fat fat toad. When we got back from the vet. I got onto the message board and was reading from the thread I posted. Whitney had written and said " we needed to try kaolin" I was ready to try anything. The closest store we could find was qiute a drive away but I really needed it. We got back late and noticed the other mare( that ate the stallions food) was really sick and rolling she hadn't eaten her food. I gave her some bute(not recomended)because It's all I had and it was late. Then I gave her some Kaolin. The next morning she was acting ok but not eating or pooping. by afternoon she started nibbling at her food then eating it and by 5 o clock she was pooping. I also gave the filly kaolin and noticed her belly had gone down a little but no poop and not eating....I had been waitng for a vet that specializes in equines (also a surgeon) to get back with me. She did and I told her the whole story. She said It sounded like strangles in the abdomen. She told me to force feed the filly and not to much. I did and about 2 in the morning I noticed that the filly had a big pile of diarrhea in her pen and then more and more until her little belly was so sunken she looked starved. She went 9 whole days not eating or pooping. She's now eating a little and looks like she's coming up........ I just felt like surgery wasn't the right thing to do.....
One thing I learned is that the more we treated it for colic the worse it became. I didn't know such a thing existed but I sure learned alot.
December 29 I lost my 21yo. stallion Andrews Ameigo to what appeard to be a compaction colic. The vet treated him for this. A few hours before he died I noticed a green/yellowish puss looking stuff running down his sheath and some coming out of his bottom. It was late so I decided to wait till morning to call the vet. The next morning he was dead. So thinking it was colic I gave his food, that he hardly touched to one of the mares and then I put my little black filly in his corral. :no: I noticed that the mare that ate his leftovers was laying around alot. Within 5 days my filly came down with what looked like colic. We rushed her to the vet. He gave her some oil, laxatives, and shots for pain. Still nothing The next day I called him he had us give her another pain shot to keep her from rolling and give her some enemas. So I did. She went 6 days not eating or pooping. I felt lost.
I didn't want to give her more oil or anything else for colic because I didn't think it was. I asked for help here, and started feeling like maybe it was colic. The next morning I called another vet and she said it sounded like a stone or compaction. I called our vet to let him know, and he said bring her in again. He put more oil down her and even more laxatives and gave her a DSS enema. It only puffed her up more she looked like a fat fat toad. When we got back from the vet. I got onto the message board and was reading from the thread I posted. Whitney had written and said " we needed to try kaolin" I was ready to try anything. The closest store we could find was qiute a drive away but I really needed it. We got back late and noticed the other mare( that ate the stallions food) was really sick and rolling she hadn't eaten her food. I gave her some bute(not recomended)because It's all I had and it was late. Then I gave her some Kaolin. The next morning she was acting ok but not eating or pooping. by afternoon she started nibbling at her food then eating it and by 5 o clock she was pooping. I also gave the filly kaolin and noticed her belly had gone down a little but no poop and not eating....I had been waitng for a vet that specializes in equines (also a surgeon) to get back with me. She did and I told her the whole story. She said It sounded like strangles in the abdomen. She told me to force feed the filly and not to much. I did and about 2 in the morning I noticed that the filly had a big pile of diarrhea in her pen and then more and more until her little belly was so sunken she looked starved. She went 9 whole days not eating or pooping. She's now eating a little and looks like she's coming up........ I just felt like surgery wasn't the right thing to do.....One thing I learned is that the more we treated it for colic the worse it became. I didn't know such a thing existed but I sure learned alot.
