seabiscuit
Well-Known Member
OMG just got over a major heartattack. I thought Forrest was dead but seems OK now.
About 2 hours ago Mum was in the kitchen and heard major crashing, she thought it was thunder so ignored it...however it carried on so she got me to go out to the paddock (behind the house)
& Forrest's stable was completley trashed through on the front......and I could not see F ANYWHERE....all I saw was his torn up summer sheet outside the stable by the paddock fence.....(stable is in paddock)I finally found him in a very dark corner of the field, cast up against the E**** barbed wire fence.All 4's in the air.He was completly motionless, eyes in the back of head. Tried to pull him over but couldnt , eventually about 5 mins later he suddenly came to life, gave a loud groan and got up...pulling that f****ing fence with him cutting up his legs. He marched off, then collapsed again, groaning, rolling etc, then got up and walked into another fence, rolled and cast himself against it , tore that fence up, managed to get him up again, thankfully Mum then came out and called vet..
He was absolutely foaming, legs were bleeding, cuts were only superficial thank god. still four legs intact. He was passing lots of sloppy poos. Vet came, did her stuff, it looks like spasmodic colic, thinks he has long term gut damage as he has had digestive probs for a while now.
He is loads better now but I do not know what to think because he has been midly colicking all day, and with hindsight, mildly colicking all week,, sometimes he seems really down and 'low' , lying down all the time,then the next minute he will be bright and perky and careering round the field like a loony...he has always been like this but we have never had a severe colic like today. I just hope the vet can help him long term. Coligone def helps him loads.
Now going to be checking/walking him all night!
And tomorrow all that fencing is going to be ripped out and am putting post and rail in, I dont care how much it costs I cant believe that I have put up with barbed wire there for so long...stupid field owners..
About 2 hours ago Mum was in the kitchen and heard major crashing, she thought it was thunder so ignored it...however it carried on so she got me to go out to the paddock (behind the house)
& Forrest's stable was completley trashed through on the front......and I could not see F ANYWHERE....all I saw was his torn up summer sheet outside the stable by the paddock fence.....(stable is in paddock)I finally found him in a very dark corner of the field, cast up against the E**** barbed wire fence.All 4's in the air.He was completly motionless, eyes in the back of head. Tried to pull him over but couldnt , eventually about 5 mins later he suddenly came to life, gave a loud groan and got up...pulling that f****ing fence with him cutting up his legs. He marched off, then collapsed again, groaning, rolling etc, then got up and walked into another fence, rolled and cast himself against it , tore that fence up, managed to get him up again, thankfully Mum then came out and called vet..
He was absolutely foaming, legs were bleeding, cuts were only superficial thank god. still four legs intact. He was passing lots of sloppy poos. Vet came, did her stuff, it looks like spasmodic colic, thinks he has long term gut damage as he has had digestive probs for a while now.
He is loads better now but I do not know what to think because he has been midly colicking all day, and with hindsight, mildly colicking all week,, sometimes he seems really down and 'low' , lying down all the time,then the next minute he will be bright and perky and careering round the field like a loony...he has always been like this but we have never had a severe colic like today. I just hope the vet can help him long term. Coligone def helps him loads.
Now going to be checking/walking him all night!
And tomorrow all that fencing is going to be ripped out and am putting post and rail in, I dont care how much it costs I cant believe that I have put up with barbed wire there for so long...stupid field owners..
