grass sickness

Unfortunately unless you are very lucky the prognosis is not good. Mine stayed with us for 9 weeks and then we called it a day. We were changing her drip every 4 hours through the day and night, unfortunately her swallow reflex had gone so couldn't eat any more. It's a terrible thing to see happen to a horse. Fingers crossed for you it's not GS. If it is I am so sorry.
 
someone i know horses has possible got it, the only ones i've know to have it have not survived. however the vet has said it is probably nursable which i didn't think was possible
 
I lost my mare through Acute GS but a friend saved hers when he had choinic GS. It was long, slow and heartbreaking, but he has nade a 100% recovery. However, the prognosis is never very good.
Try the GS website, who also have a Forum Board.

http://www.grasssickness.org.uk/
 
I lost my mare with GS approx 16year ago and she had a 9 week old foal.i was told it could possibly happen when a horse goes from grazing on long grass to short or vice versa.
when the knacker man came he said he had had picked up quite a few horses withn it that year.
he also said it seemed to affect more pure bred horses than the cob types
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my mare was bred in the purple forgot to say her foal survived.my mare was very cold to touch she could not open her mouth properly either the vet thought she had tetanus at first until they done blood tests and examined her.she was fine one afternoon and dead in 24 hours
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it really put me off owning horses for a while as she was my pride and joy and i was totally devastated.
 
oh god its not sounding good.
the vet came out at lunchtime as he was on the floor and friend had to smack him to get him up, previous to that he'd only done 1 pooh since this morning.
vet put a tube down his throat and gave him a laxative, took blood, gave him anti inflamitries and put his hand up his rear to check his bowels. the vet said he's colicy.
he's shaking all over, wont let you touch him, when he yawned earlier he couldn't yawn properly, he's salivating alot, he's clammy all over, he wont drink water and licking and chewing alot. the laxative hasn't worked yet.
I feel so bad for my friend as he's her pride and joy and he's only 8, he's hannorvarian x tb.
Im keeping everything crossed for her, the vets coming out again in a bit.
 
my horse had it a year ago now and became ill on the saturday, vet out on the sunday and said to take her straight into the surgery. she was PTS on the Monday but the vet said she would have died with in 4 days any way. it was horrible she been out sj the week before and was turning into a super star! there no reason why she was the one who got it there was 10 other horses out in her field and 40 horses on the yard and she was the only one. mine was only 8 to hope your friends come throught
 
My cob had it as a yearling, it took another year for him to begin recovery and he was 4 by the time he looked normal. i didnt break him until he was 6 as he took the 2 years to develop enough muscle. He was still weak so i spent the next 2 years pottering around the woods, gradually building him up with hill work. We moved onto faster work and he finally went to his first show at 10. He has been very sucessful in SJ (3'6"), showing (inc HOYS), dressage and is a perfect hunter- there is always hope and i want to say a huge thanks to Clare Blaskey at Blue Chip
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who very kindly donated blue chip
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which was the only thing he wanted to eat and it was a miracle how it helped him put on condition. He even featured in their early campaigns!
 
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