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What a week. YD just went down yard to fetch chicken food and found cob loose in feedroom having eaten goodness alone knows what including speedibeet. :(
Waiting for vet to phone back, dh trawling local yards looking for some bran to soak - cob has history of dodgy guts and had colic not that long ago :(
MUST have been me who didn't do his door up properly but can hardly believe it.
Off to beat self up and wish vet would call back quicker.

prayers thoughts and vibes appreciated.
 
try not to beat yourself up, these things happen. If you can't get bran from a yard, then most big supermarkets and health food stores will have it.
vibes coming your and your cobs way
 
Don't panic. D jumped out of her starvation paddock last year and spent the entire night in a field of knee deep grass that had just been sprayed with weedkiller.

I was convinced she was going to colic at the very least but she was absolutely fine.
 
you'd be suprised how resilient they are to these things. My old pony used to regularly stuff himself with dry sugarbeet, but never suffered from it!

good old fashioned paraffin drench if necessary.... tho its horrid to do!
 
Poor you but glosgirl is right these thinkgs happen.
Sending lots of ((((((((vibes))))))))) that cob is ok.
Big (((((hugs))))) to you.
 
Things happen and cobs will find food wherever they go!!
Don't worry, (((vibes))) coming for your cob I hope he's okay.
((hugs)) for you, don't beat yourself up too much :( we did the exact same with my mum's share cob who was very overweight and he ate everyone's food, including a load of haylage! Everybody's done it, it just makes us more conscious in future xx
Keep us posted
K x
 
thanks guys, vet has advised against bran, preferring epsom salts and some oil.
as she says, he has a tendency to diarrhea which i can't spell, rather than impaction, which in this case is a good thing. he also opened a bale of hay and quite possibly ate the string. honestly he's a nightmare that horse.
will keep you all updated.
 
reminds me of when I didn't shut the boy's stable properly, and he was found in the morning wedged in the corridor, wrong way round, having eaten almost the entire contents of the feedroom (altho he couldn't get in to the kwikbeet). I was terrified, but absolutely no harm done that I know of - just a very happy pony :D sm x
 
Ouch.
Everything crossed here!
I think most of us-if we are honest-have been in this situation, I know I certainly have. Luck was on my side that day and pony lived to tell tale after downing 1/4 of a sack of sugar beet pellets.
 
So far so good with the horse.
Not so good with the husband, as stress of worrying about the horse has caused me to blow a fuse about being treated like staff/another bloke/furniture.

But I guess you win some you lose some.
 
Fingers crossed for the cob:) but don't beat yourself up to much about not locking the door properly.:)

My cob kept getting out and the first couple of times i blamed myself:rolleyes: - until i discovered she was letting hereself out and can undo all the various locks/kick bolts on the stables!!:eek::rolleyes::rolleyes: She has to have a piece of angle iron with a nut and bolt device to keep her in when she is box rest:rolleyes::rolleyes::D.........she will also let the other horses out if she feels like it but that isn't gauranteed..............;):D:D
 
Hope all is well.
My old cob was such a greedy git but had guts of steel. One morning I came down yard to find her in the area fenced off beacuse of oak trees and acorns, she had scoffed loads of acorns so decidid to put her in stable with some hay. Came back down 3 hours later and she had gotten out of stable, broke into feed room and eaten half a sack of sugarbeet. Was worring all night but apart from pooing acorn shells there wasnt anything wrong with her!!!!!
 
Phew, he seems to be fine this morning, thanks for all the thoughts!
He has pooed a couple of times, both quite normal, and is as bright as a button, and I think I've located all the baler twine off the hay, much to my relief.
Gentle hacky this morning I think!
 
Phew, what a relief! Never know how some horses get away scot free with things like that, when at other times seemingly the smallest thing sets a bit of colic off. Think they must just like to do it to scare us!
At least you can breath now and relax!
 
wouldn't mind but he gets the squits when the grass changes and this spring had a touch of colic with it - as far as we can make out, having had a nibble at just about everything else he seems to have majored on BlueChip - which is what he has to sort his guts out, and it works a treat I must say, so maybe he's just given himself a big dose of therapy!
 
We had that two weeks ago. Little mare escaped and got into sugar beet bin. She lifted all the lids off the other bins until she found what she was looking for. Tried sheep feed and wasn't too keen on that.

Our biggest worry was that she has had lami in the past. A couple of doses of parafin, some frog supports and a few days on box rest and she is fine. Worrying at the time though.

Looks like yours is on the right track too I'm pleased to hear.
 
skewbald_again said:
Phew, he seems to be fine this morning, thanks for all the thoughts!
He has pooed a couple of times, both quite normal, and is as bright as a button, and I think I've located all the baler twine off the hay, much to my relief.
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I take it that's the horse, not the husband:rolleyes::eek::rolleyes:
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