Colic from netwrap

[Orangehorse]

There was a very sad tale on my local Facebook group from a vet practice.

Someone had bought a nice young horse which was progressing well, for 6 months or so when it developed colic. The vet gave the appropriate treatment but the horse continued to be in pain and so was PTS. When they did the PM there was found an impactation, the cause of which was a small piece of netwrap which food had got wrapped in to form a solid mass.

The owners didn't feed anything with netwrap, so this had been inside the horse for a considerable amount of time.

So the warning is to make sure that every piece of netwrap should be removed before feeding. Even the vet was surprised that the horse had eaten it, when considering how picky they can be. Nasty end for the unfortunate horse.

 

[ponynutz]

What a horrible tale Have definitely pulled plastic bits out of hay before now so definitely agree just check as you fill your nets.

 

[throwawayaccount]

how awful

 

[Birker2020]

Yes I've had occasions when I've gone to pull out hay from a round bale and you can hear the elastic sound of a piece of that stuff.
Its very dangerous. With all the technology in the world you would have thought the manufacturers would have come up with something by now that would be safer for wrapping around animal forage.