Tia
Well-Known Member
This post has nothing to do with any of my horses or my farm; I am posting this on hearing about a very strange situation.
Person goes to take care of 8 horses 3 months ago sole care, no owner around. When she turned up to take sole charge of these horses way back then, a couple of horses had just arrived from an auction about 1 month previously. 1 of these horses had snuffles but no cough.
About a month into her time there; almost all of the horses had developed snuffles, were coughing, nodes appeared to be swollen and looked to be losing weight. Vet was called and took blood tests. Findings of blood tests was that they all had ulcers. Made no comment about snuffles.
Vet pops in once in a while over the next month and notices all horses are losing even more weight, so gives them some white pill each (no idea what at this stage) and comes to give every horse Gastroguard every day for a week. Vet eventually decides to take the original horse back to clinic for further tests and to care for horse.
The following day, the owner returns for 2 days, is VERY concerned about horses, however leaves the person in charge and leaves again for a week.
On her final return, she finds the horse at vets is very ill and makes the decision to have her destroyed; 3 months after symptoms appeared.
This is as much information as I was given and I have my own ideas about what I think it may be - I also have my own opinions on the handling of this, but I would appreciate your ideas on everything that happened?
Person goes to take care of 8 horses 3 months ago sole care, no owner around. When she turned up to take sole charge of these horses way back then, a couple of horses had just arrived from an auction about 1 month previously. 1 of these horses had snuffles but no cough.
About a month into her time there; almost all of the horses had developed snuffles, were coughing, nodes appeared to be swollen and looked to be losing weight. Vet was called and took blood tests. Findings of blood tests was that they all had ulcers. Made no comment about snuffles.
Vet pops in once in a while over the next month and notices all horses are losing even more weight, so gives them some white pill each (no idea what at this stage) and comes to give every horse Gastroguard every day for a week. Vet eventually decides to take the original horse back to clinic for further tests and to care for horse.
The following day, the owner returns for 2 days, is VERY concerned about horses, however leaves the person in charge and leaves again for a week.
On her final return, she finds the horse at vets is very ill and makes the decision to have her destroyed; 3 months after symptoms appeared.
This is as much information as I was given and I have my own ideas about what I think it may be - I also have my own opinions on the handling of this, but I would appreciate your ideas on everything that happened?
