Had to get the emergency vet to Grace

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I got up to the yard tonight, picked out her feet and set off for our first 10 minutes walk after 4 weeks of box rest... apart from one very silly moment when she bucked of the spot for a few seconds, she was pretty good seeing as it was dark and this was the first time
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Anyway, tied her up outside her stable with a net and started mucking out to find she had not touched the haylage in her haybar
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She was figgeting about outside her stable when usually she stands quietly munching on her net and when I put her in she was really restless.

I mucked out Hannah, made their teas and she seemed to be eating it so started clearing up ready to leave. Just before leaving I turned her light back on and popped my head in to find she was pawing. She never paws, and she was kicking her stomach
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I went in, and she was really dull in her eyes, almost having a sedated look. I do not mess around with colic as I have seen how quickly it can turn several times, so phoned the vet immediately, explained she couldn't be walked out as on box rest and he said he would come over as soon as he could.

She kept kicking at her belly and generally not looking a happy girl... she did a poo while we were waiting, but continued being restless and scratching her nose on anything she could find
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The vet turned up and took her temperature which was 101.something
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So, colic was ruled out because she had gut noises, had passed two poos in less than an hour and she had a temperature. The vet thinks it is some sort of virus or infection
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He said she probably felt fluey and achey... poor baby!

He has given her an antibiotic jab and something else (I am sure he said anti-inflammatory) and is coming back at 8am to give her another antibiotic jab because while she is not eating I cannot put them in her feed.

I have to pop up and check on her at 10am but I left her munching on the haylage in her haybar with a little more enthusiasm than before, although still not herself at all
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The dreaded S word (strangles) keeps coming into my head because a yard about 15 mins away has had a case this week, but I have not been in contact with anyone from that yard, nor have I hacked near it and no one from that yard has been on ours!
 
I have just read a few websites on strangles and can start to breath a sigh of relief... the symptoms she has are classical ones of an infection. She does not have any discharge whatsoever from her nose (nor has she over the past few days) and she is not swollen in the neck area
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If there had not been a case on a yard in the area I would never have even considered it... thankkfully, I can stop worrying as the vet never even mentioned it and he has been up treating said horse
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In fact, I don't even know why I was worrying in the first place
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Fingers crossed she is feeling better soon, seems to be one thing after the other with her
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It does at the moment...

Last year she had mud fever, this year she had an abscess on one foot, a shoe rubbing on another foot, and then a suspensory ligament injury
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Do you think fate is trying to tell me something...
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I have been wondering this lately.
 
I would not worry about strangles that much - I have been to yards which have had it, and in all honesty none of it seemed that bad. I heard you do get it worse in England, and foals suffer more, however most adults horses have some immunity to it, therefore it does not hit them hard.
 
Sorry to mention this, but you cant rule out colic if there are gut noises.... my TB always has spasmodic colic with gut sounds, although admittedly a little over active gut sounds but they are definately still there!
 
I think that is why the vet wanted me to check her at 10pm just to be 100% certain... but he was pretty sure that all things together suggested it was not colic.
 
Just nipped back up now and she had eaten most of the haylage I had left her so have put a bit more in and given her a small tea which she had a bit of (she is not really interested in feeds at the moment as she is no longer on the mix she loves). She had done two poos since I had left and did not look to have been pawing or restless since as he bed was more or less as I left it.

So, let's just hope she gets a nice nights sleep and starts getting better now
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I also saw a shooting star when I was walking to her stable... I could certainly do with some luck!
 
Hope she's feeling better when you look in on her. Box rest is enought of a stress without a poorly horse but hopefully she'll be on the mend soon.
 
Glad to hear things have settled (do hope there was no change overnight?) will be interested to hear if she starts eating mix again as we have a couple of horses on the yard that have stopped eating their hard feed and they are on different types of feed.....
let us know how she gets on!
 
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