Clancy

[11davisk]

Thanks!! It very well could be a mix of the steroids and hormones. I never thought of that. She has been eating better. My brother and I rode the other night. We brought her to some grain scales. With the saddle she weighed 920lbs. or 417kg. She is a quarter horse so she was over 1000lbs. before she became ill. I'm very worried. I welcome any stories anyone has concerning their own experiences and what worked for them. (I am accepting personal messages as well!!)Thank you!!

 

[catembi]

It's good that she's eating better. Here are some of the things I tried with Cat:-

Yakult, to build up his 'good' bacteria
Gaviscon (human over the counter ulcer liquid)
Milk thistle tablets - one am & pm
Different haylages
Lots of different feeds - we had 16 at one point. Altho you are normally supposed to keep a horse's diet constant, the pattern with horses with PLE is that they'll eat a new food for a day or 2, then go off it. I used to offer him a scoop of each food every mealtime, & went with whichever he was least disinterested in.
Horselyx lick
Feed ANYTHING he'd eat - a bit of bread, a banana etc
Molasses on food. I'd put it on one half of the food & leave the other half plain so he could choose.
Hay buckets made of readigrass steamed with boiling water with a splash of molasses
Horse whisperer - I had Ann Dee on the phone to him. She said his whole digestive tract was sore ie sore throat, sore gums & when he ate, it physically hurt him, hence Gaviscon. It sounds nuts, but she was really, really good & told me all sorts of things about him & our r'ship that she couldn't possibly have known.
He would barely eat at all, so all his pills, gaviscon etc etc had to be crushed, mixed with horse cough mixture (the aniseed stuff from the tack shop) & given by a washed out worming syringe.
If your horse will eat, try stud mix as that's got the highest protein content.
Electrolytes in water - altho rem always to offer plain water too. He had extremely severe diarrhoea, which I don't think yours has?

I would ask your vet about all the above. My horse was very ill & lost weight from 690 kg to 500 kg, so I was trying absolutely every mortal thing I could think of.

I really, really hope your horse gets better.

T x