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silverstar

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Ive also put this in NL. Ive had my horse a month I had to move yards in the 2nd week. This week Ive noticed hes been breathing heavy. I had the vet out to him last week and he said his breathing was fine but its definitely not the same this week. There are about three fields surrounding the yard which have rapeseed in them. Any ideas what it could be?

Im preying its not COPD as my last horse had it and I really couldnt cope if it was this. Does COPD take time to develop?
 
Thanks I definitely think it is an allergy as he was fine before we moved and its only in the last two days Ive noticed it. What do you give your horse Catherine is he on ventipulmin and is it working? Also can you get allergy testing done at the vets to determine what it is hes allergic to? (I suspect it is the rapeseed though).
 
The vet took a blood sample and sent it for testing. It came back positive for loads of different things he reacted to, barley, different pollens, sugarbeet and so on. The vet said that allergies is difficult to control in horses, when they react to something they can react to something different because of that :(
He is now on 8 inhalations of Lomudal before hard workouts. I feel this really works.
He is also on Equistro SecretaPro and EquinaVet Immunopro, I feel this helps him a little. He eats haylage and clean oats. And he is stabled in a good ventilated stable.

I hope this helped. I just answered an other thread about allergies, you can read that as well.

Good luck
 
Thanks catherine. I think hes going to be going back. Ive only had him four weeks and hes started with this.

What I cant understand is why did he pass a 5 stage vetting with no mention of bad breathing and then two weeks later his breathing starts getting worse.
 
silverstar said:
Thanks catherine. I think hes going to be going back. Ive only had him four weeks and hes started with this.

What I cant understand is why did he pass a 5 stage vetting with no mention of bad breathing and then two weeks later his breathing starts getting worse.
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Because you've moved him to somewhere that affects him, possibly the rape ????

Its not the horses fault, by going back to you mean as in returning to seller or moving yards back to where he wasn't affected ?

I've heard of alot of horses suffering seems loads this year more than ever
 
silverstar said:
What I cant understand is why did he pass a 5 stage vetting with no mention of bad breathing and then two weeks later his breathing starts getting worse.
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Probably because there was no evidence of 'bad' breething. As you say yourself - you've only noticed it this week.
 
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