Gassy colic

[jenz87]

My mare had previously had ulcers and they have been treated and two weeks ago re scanned 8 months after treatment and given all clear.
Then on Thursday out of the blue she went down instantaneously with what I thought was bad colic. I called the vet and by time he arrived she was back to normal. He found a bit of gas on the right side.
She has been normal until this morning when the same thing happeneded. Ive walked her for a hour and so far she seems back to normal.....
Her feed is the same Nd hay looks similarm maybe it is a bit richer but not much.
Any advice. She only gets a small feed of ff and grass which she has been having for a year. But both events have occured about 20mins after feeding. Once at night and once in morning.

Help xx

 

[ladyt25]

Does she bolt her food?

My sister's horse has had this a couple of times but in the summer as he pigs out on grass. He just looks uncomfortable though, curls his lip up and stretches out like he needs a wee. The vet was there once for vaccinations and he just gave him a painkiller. he said his heart rate was normal at the time. The next time he had it we just gave him a painkiller too and he was ok again.

What did the vet say when you got them out? I would mention it to them but it could be the horse is bolting its food and causes a bit of a stomach ache.

 

[jenz87]

She doesnt seen to bolt and it is such a small amout even if she did it shouldn'tmake much ddifference.
Vet said just a bit gassy and been a bit dramatic and gave her a pain killer.
Hmmm....

 

[NorthDevonTraveller]

Have you wormed lately? Especially for red worm. I have had a horse colic with worms that came to the field surface after rain, and know of someone whose horse had re-occuring colic due to worms. And no, they don't have to be 'wormy' to get colic, it can be down to weather conditions at the time.

 

[Birker2020]

My horse has always had gassy spasmodic colic due the the fantastic grazing we have at our yard which used to be a dairy farm. He has moved fields recently, and last week was out for only two hours a day which is now raised to four hours a day to get his stomach to adapt to the new grazing (he's in a six acre field on his own) due to problems with the fact he is a pratt to keep in electric fencing, and can't go out with others. He is in horsey heaven, copious amounts of grass and his girlfriend on one side and 'the boys' on the other!!

Like the previous reply said, redworm can be a major cause of reocurring colics in horses. This was a route I never went down in the end.


Muzzling never controlled his colics as he'd pull them off and then stuff himself and get colic! Neither did limited grazing, electric fence was no good as he used to go through it, so the only thing that really did any good was allowing him to regulate his grazing whilst putting him on a good worming programme and giving copious amounts of pink powder. He's been on two scoops per day for the last three years! Now he is on four scoops a day due to the new field situaiton but seems to be coping (touch wood).

The vet said to me as he was so prone to colic to give him 3 or 4 bute, shove him on the walker and after 20 mins put him in his stable. If he was still colicky to call him out. It worked nearly every time and on the ocassions it didn't the vet was called.