AstonishedTrowel
Active Member
So my loan mare has a couple of weird symptoms.
First of all, she's been leaving a few handfuls of her hard feed every night for just over a week. This is unusual for her, so I watched her eat and saw her opening her mouth whilst eating (same movement as yawning almost). So in conjunction with not finishing her feed you'd think teeth.
However, she's eating the same amount of hay with no problem and her teeth were checked mid-October, filed briefly and given the thumbs up.
She is fed on Spillers Alfalfa-Pro fibre and Dodson & Horrell build up cubes. Breakfast and tea.
Next, Thursday morning her eye had puffed up and had crust/goop in it. I rode and put her to bed around 7pm the previous night and she was fine, but when I went up at 8:30 am her eye was like this. I've been bathing with sterile saline and giving antibiotic eye drops the past 2 days under the assumption she might have poked her eye on some straw and introduced some bacteria. It seems a little better and I can't see any damage/the eye is clear.
She seems fine in herself and is eating her hay/ drinking fine.
I don't know whether these two things are related or not. And either way, if I need to get the vet out. Tell me I'm not being paranoid?
If she's not improved I will have the vet out Monday!
Any ideas are welcome as I'm stumped! TIA
First of all, she's been leaving a few handfuls of her hard feed every night for just over a week. This is unusual for her, so I watched her eat and saw her opening her mouth whilst eating (same movement as yawning almost). So in conjunction with not finishing her feed you'd think teeth.
However, she's eating the same amount of hay with no problem and her teeth were checked mid-October, filed briefly and given the thumbs up.
She is fed on Spillers Alfalfa-Pro fibre and Dodson & Horrell build up cubes. Breakfast and tea.
Next, Thursday morning her eye had puffed up and had crust/goop in it. I rode and put her to bed around 7pm the previous night and she was fine, but when I went up at 8:30 am her eye was like this. I've been bathing with sterile saline and giving antibiotic eye drops the past 2 days under the assumption she might have poked her eye on some straw and introduced some bacteria. It seems a little better and I can't see any damage/the eye is clear.
She seems fine in herself and is eating her hay/ drinking fine.
I don't know whether these two things are related or not. And either way, if I need to get the vet out. Tell me I'm not being paranoid?
If she's not improved I will have the vet out Monday!
Any ideas are welcome as I'm stumped! TIA