Had the vet last night after hours - was he tying up?

[Stacie_and_Jed]

I’m not 100% on horses that ty up as i haven’t seen many cases of it.

I brought my boy in from the field last night around 4:30ish stood him on the yard, mucked out, groomed and put him away at 5:15ish. This is our normal routine. I then tacked him up, in his stable as always, went to walk him out to ride and he was very reluctant to walk. He staggered out looking kind of drunk not seeming to have full control of him hind quarters. I eventually got him out walked him around and he eased right off. Took his saddle of and just “hacked” in hand for 10 mins or so by which time he was completely back to normal. Thought just incase ill not ride so put him away and fed him.

I went home for some dinner and couldn’t rest so i went back to check him at 7:30pm. He was even worse!! He wouldn’t move out of his stable at all so i called the vet. Vet arrived, checked him over, prodded him around his back end and Jed tried to boot him when he was feeling around his hamstring areas. Vet asked me to walk him out. At first he was the same, wouldn’t move and didn’t look comfortable and then he walked out pretty ok. Vet asked me to circle him a few times and he was fine.

Vet administered some muscles relaxant and left (after an explanation of what he thought was wrong and what i should do now of course)

Arrived this morning and he seemed stiff; vet said this would be likely, but walked out ok and is now happily grazing.

I have reduced his feed over the last few weeks before the spring grass pops up and haven’t worked him especially hard, he's also in constant work 5 days sometimes 6 a week so i have no idea, if he was tying up, what would have caused it.

What do you guys think?

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

What did the vet say it was?

Were his major muscle groups hard, i.e. His bum, neck, shoulders?

Does he have any salt and/Vit E and/or Selenium in his feed?

Was he wearing a heavy rug on a warm day?

Any chance he'd been running hard with the herd?

 

[Stacie_and_Jed]

The vet said he thought it was tying up but he was a bit baffled as it was in the evening after he'd been grazing all day!

His bum looked a little tense the first time around but only when trotting him in hand - walking he looked ok. When i arrived back to check him later in the evening his shoulders looked stiff and he was reluctant to move his off side front leg.

He was a little warm under his medium rug with no neck, but not excessive amounts of sweating.

He is turned out with one other horse and are normally quite well behaved but, like all horses, they do have their wild moments.

The ground was slightly hard on Sunday when i was out hacking but he wasnt hammered over it, just a very sedate canter up hill on a crop field

 

[MrsMozartletoe]

It's sounding very much like what happened with Little Cob last year, about this time of year as well.

We treated him as tying up. He improved, but then went off again. Changed his diet, adding salt, Vit E and Selenium. Tried field rest, but he kept hooning around, so box rested, then brought him slowly back into work.