Grrr Liveries - Can a horse colic from a light being turned on?!?!?!

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Just for clarifcation of my own mind before I go insane!

Last night me and a fellow livery got to the yard about 8.30pm (due to shift work) and started mucking out etc. I went round the corner and another liveries horse was looking very uncomfortable - kicking at belly, severe scouring etc etc. Looked to be mild colic although no sweating. Rang owner and she came down, we left at that point.

Today we asked livery how the horse was. He's fine, but apparently doesn't like being 'disturbed' at night - a direct comment to us as we have to turn the lights on when we get there to muck out and whatnot and we've already had comments because we are often there later and have to turn the lights on.
Apparently he's an old man and likes his routine and to not be 'woken up'.

Really? Can turning a light on cause what seemed to be mild colic, or scouring at the very least?!

Frustrated to say the least!
 
Well if turning a light on makes her horse colic then I bet she doesnt hack it out either coz if he spooks then he might get colic

sorry what a load of *&&ER(**WER&W*(&RW(*&Q(*)&R*(W&ER*EW(&R(*WE&T


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Load of old rubbish. She should be happy you took the trouble to check her horse out and ring her because you were concerned. I would be very appreciative if someone took the time to check my horse in those circumstances, people do now when shes in the field. She had a tendon injury last/this year and if she belts around the field I always know because people look out for her and know what we have been through.
 
toffee44 said:
Well if turning a light on makes her horse colic then I bet she doesnt hack it out either coz if he spooks then he might get colic

sorry what a load of *&&ER(**WER&W*(&RW(*&Q(*)&R*(W&ER*EW(&R(*WE&T


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:D :D Glad someone else sees it that way! Don't even get me started on hacking, she takes beginner riders out on him on a leadrein, with the beginner rider wearing a borrowed hat and wellies and they've been going out when it's been dimming (about 4-4.30) on windy roads. Grrr!

toffee44 said:
And me being me would say oh ok next time I will just turn the light back off and hopefully he will then settle for the night, shes bloomin lucky you happened to go up the yard that late!
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Haha tell me about it! I don't know if it's severe coincidence but her lightbulb has been removed from the horse's stable.......if she's prepared to sink that low me and other livery are considering getting a vet report to state how horses shouldn't react like that to a light switch! x
 
My sentiments exactly!! I am the fellow livery of Cobrastyle, and I find it absolutely gobsmacking that anybody could possibly think that a horse, who is designed by nature to be alert whilst dozing anyway in the wild, could possibly colic and scour severely (it was running all over his tail and hindlegs) just because we have turned the yard lights on and mucked out at 8.30pm!

It actually amuses me greatly that people come up with these theories!! Seems to be an excuse not to get the vet out to me!

Mind you - this woman actually had to ask someone else on the yard what bit her own horse is in because she didn't know what it was...:confused:
 
I'd have been spending just about the rest of my life thanking you for noticing and helping my horse. Not everyone can get to the yard in daytime hours and I think it's a good thing as if you weren't there then who knows what could have happened.

Silly woman.
 
It sounds as though she's been pushing the vet and he's said something along the lines of "Well I suppose if something was to upset him enough it could possibly bring on colic" and she's took it as a ways and means of pinning blame on you :rolleyes:
 
Presumably this horse colics every time a light is switched on then? How ridiculous! I guesss in the winter he needs to be tucked up and undisturbed from 4pm to 8am the next day to keep him well. Total nonsense!
 
What complete and utter CLAPTRAP that stupid owner wants to thank her lucky stars you were there and rang her - ungrateful cow. What IS it with liveries about this latest passion for getting horses locked up by 2pm???? I am being critisised on my yard as I leave mine out until 5.30pm...Some of us HAVE to work, I wish the dossers and ladies who lunch would just bugger off and set up their own place...
 
moses06 said:
What complete and utter CLAPTRAP that stupid owner wants to thank her lucky stars you were there and rang her - ungrateful cow. What IS it with liveries about this latest passion for getting horses locked up by 2pm???? I am being critisised on my yard as I leave mine out until 5.30pm...Some of us HAVE to work, I wish the dossers and ladies who lunch would just bugger off and set up their own place...
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Here here!!!!!!
 
moses06 said:
What complete and utter CLAPTRAP that stupid owner wants to thank her lucky stars you were there and rang her - ungrateful cow. What IS it with liveries about this latest passion for getting horses locked up by 2pm???? I am being critisised on my yard as I leave mine out until 5.30pm...Some of us HAVE to work, I wish the dossers and ladies who lunch would just bugger off and set up their own place...
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5.30pm honestly, where is the RSPCA when you need them. Your poor horse ;)
 
maybe she should read her books and see that older horses are more prone to colic and be damn grateful that you found it before it was too late. I would be hopping mad, I would contact Royal Vet College and let them confirm to her that theyve never known of a case of lightbulb colic.

Sounds like do not disturb routine is a result of owner not coming to see ned in the evening justification!
 
Sigh..... It's the owner who doesn't like her horse being disturbed NOT the horse......

There's always one........

I had a call once at 9:30pm. Ended up staying til 1 and not once did I think it was the livery who had got there so late....... Just thanked her everytime I saw her for about a month!
 
I feel your pain, apparently my mare has caused her neighbour horse to collapse from sleep deprivation, she is sometimes mareish & squeals in the stable, a bit of a food thing I think. So if he is sleep deprived, why isn't she or my other pony?? My vet said it was rubbish, but no, & also the offer of a solid partition between them rather than a grille was no good. So I have to swap my 2 over so bigger pony now in smaller stable, to be fair she is a bit more settled, but was squealing last night & today, so now the neighbour horse has "dug all his bed up because he's restless" PLEASE SHUT UP & GO AWAY.......
 
If her horse is so supersensitive it colics at a small disturbance like a light beign turned on then its really a ticking time bomb and she should have it PTS straight away...

Silly woman.. she prob did something silly like change its feed or maybe wormed the horse and felt guilty about it and sought to blame someone else rather than accept that it was something she'd caused. Personally I'd of been very very gratful that someone had the sense to call me and let me know there was a problem with my horse...
 
Well if they could I'd probably have killed our whole yard by now!

According to Desmond Morris's Horse Watching which I was browsing through last night, horses sleep for less than 3 hours a day broken up into short segments so the light wouldn't have woken her horse anyway.

Sounds like a nutter. Like most people here I'd have been grateful you'd bothered to check on my horse.
 
How on earth do competiton/race horses survive when they get 'disturbed' at 4am to be got ready?

I would like to say thank you to you for checking on that horse when you did, on behalf of it's ungrateful owner who really should know better.
 
What a silly woman the owner is! It is almost guaranteed that you arriving yesterday evening had nothing to do with her horse colicking whatsoever!!! In any case it sounds like he started before you arrived, and the owner should be thanking you, that you were there and spotted it. Had it been left unoticed then the outcome may not have been nice.
I can fully understand why you would be offended and upset by her accusation.

If the horse colics easily from unusual stressful situations, then it is far more likely yesterdays extreme weather set it off. A lot of the horses at out yard looked a bit edgy last night because the wind was making banging and clattering noises, and they'd been turned out during the daytime in that storm.
 
Thanks everyone for the support - I am pretty p!ssed at the fact that she was so ungrateful. I know my little'un had suspected colic I'd appreciate other liveries ringing me and letting me know, and I'd be right there.
Different horses for different courses I expect!

As I say, the lightbulb has since been removed from said horse's stable. If, by a major coincidence, the bulb has blown, fair enough. If I find out it's a petty gesture to somehow magically prevent colic, I'll be even more fuming!

Liveries....gotta love em!
 
As I say, the lightbulb has since been removed from said horse's stable. If, by a major coincidence, the bulb has blown, fair enough. If I find out it's a petty gesture to somehow magically prevent colic, I'll be even more fuming!
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I'd leave the YO to deal with this one.

Clearly the horse has to have a light in his stable - and the owner should be severely *******ed.
 
amymay said:
I'd leave the YO to deal with this one.

Clearly the horse has to have a light in his stable - and the owner should be severely *******ed.
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Don't worry - I'll only be grumpily fuming in the sidelines! :D
YO is tricky as he's an old guy who doesn't know much about horses, but will see how it goes. Hopefully it was just a nasty coincidence and the bulb has blown.
 
Hee Hee thats the funniest thing Ive heard in ages!!!! What a complete idiot! Did you laugh when she commented to you?? I wouldnt have been able to help myself!!! Also what an ungrateful bitch I would be very happy if someone bothered to ring me to tell me that my horse had colic
 
Well you think you've heard it all eh???!! What a loon! and poor horse!! what an ungrateful cow! Makes you wonder why you bother sometimes doesn't it!!! If her horse is that sensitive perhaps she should move to a quieter yard where he won't get disturbed? sadly that would also mean that he wouldn't be heard if he did have a belly ache in the night and would suffer as a consequence...
 
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