My old man just coliced this Sunday. The vet came out yesterday at 9:30 and we pumped mineral oil and water into him and got him to pass some poop. He pooped twice more yesterday but so far only once this morning. I am feeding him hay soaked in water. Grain soaked in water and a slurpy bran mash in the middle of the day to help with his liquids. As well I've been adding salt to everything to try and get him to drink. But its not working. So for you experienced horse people, any ideas on ways to get him to intake more fluids or better yet start drinking on his own????
My mare coliced a few weeks ago. First of all no grain. Get some Hay stretcher, soak it with warm water . I got a tube of electrolytes for her and syringes that into her. Only feed small handfuls of hay soaked at a time. I kept getting told no grain for a while. I just gave her a mash of the hay stretcher and bran. About a cup of each. I started off with small amounts though. I also got pwdered electrolytes to put in the mash. Hope that helps. He is getting water from the mash and stuff ant that'swhy he's not drinking as much. He really shouldn't be eating hay yet anyways. This is just my experience and my opinion I'm not a vet.
Christy
Okay, a small update on my boy. He drank twice on his own in front of me. He hasn't been to interested in grain or the bran mash all that much these past 2 days. I tried the gatorade, but he didn't seem to like it. Vet insists on feeding him. She said he won't eat if he doesn't feel good. I don't know, to me if he's impacted why add to it? I'm not to fond of this vet anyways. She's impossible to get ahold of.
He eats his soaked hay and actually last night was the first night he ate it all and the water in the bucket. He's been eating the top layer and leaveing what sits in the water. He pooped early morning yesterday, and then nothing all day. He kept up with gut sounds, and pink gums, although slightly pale. Last night around 6 he went down again. Still couldn't get ahold of the vet, been trying since 3 that afternoon. Got to the point we called another vet, but they wanted 2000 to walk in the door. Eeek, its sad to say, but we paid 800 for him and he has no papers. So our vet FINALLY called us and came out at 11:30. We put a hose through his nose into his stomache and pumped more mineral oil and water. She pulled some poop from him.
Early this morning he pooped a nice wet mushy poop. Then again a few hours later. Then again. Yah. I took him for a second walk right before supper and he is exhausted. Drank some water and I gave him some more banamine as he seems uncomfortable. Well 10 minutes later he pooped again! So yes we've been going every 4 hours about. I hope he continues this tomorrow. I might be able to sleep and go to work for the morning shift.
I'm going to try and add a little apple juice I think to his water and see if he likes that. Thanks for you help, lets just hope he makes it through.
