Jade Raleigh
Active Member
I’m going to start from the beginning :
I own a 6 year old cob ( never any previous medical issues ).
At the start of January we moved to our own new yard ( it was a big change for him ). The pony we have as a companion really dislikes him so we are on the hunt for another.
About 4 weeks ago we put him on soaked hay after the frost ( he stopped drinking his normal amount of water and he was trying to urinate a bit more than normal ). Then a week later he became very gassy ( he was left out in the nice weather for an extra couple of hours ). Then we rang the vet and he told us to starve him but as a result of him not drinking water he got an impaction. Impaction cleared when we got the vet out 3 times over the 2 days.
Then a week ago he was gassy again but this time I didn’t cut out the sloppy feed and he returned back to normal. Bear in mind he is still not drinking but he is getting four watery feeds and soaked hay a day. We took a full blood count yesterday and everything came back clear apart from the red blood cell count ( RBC 6.04, PCV 29.5 AND hb 10.5 ). Our vet thinks it’s gastric ulcers due to stress so my boy started gastroguard and iron today. And he said he is probably bleeding internally from the ulcers and there is extra protein from the bleeding in the gut so that is why he is gassy. His faeces is slightly darker and smaller balls than normal. We are waiting on the feacal test.
BUT the vet can’t explain the extra peeing over the last few days and I’m so worried ?, our boy is fine in every other way, heart rate, temp. Ect. Is normal but he is a tiny bit lethargic especially when he coliced. I’m not experienced with this sort of thing and I just want my boy to be okay, any thoughts ?
I own a 6 year old cob ( never any previous medical issues ).
At the start of January we moved to our own new yard ( it was a big change for him ). The pony we have as a companion really dislikes him so we are on the hunt for another.
About 4 weeks ago we put him on soaked hay after the frost ( he stopped drinking his normal amount of water and he was trying to urinate a bit more than normal ). Then a week later he became very gassy ( he was left out in the nice weather for an extra couple of hours ). Then we rang the vet and he told us to starve him but as a result of him not drinking water he got an impaction. Impaction cleared when we got the vet out 3 times over the 2 days.
Then a week ago he was gassy again but this time I didn’t cut out the sloppy feed and he returned back to normal. Bear in mind he is still not drinking but he is getting four watery feeds and soaked hay a day. We took a full blood count yesterday and everything came back clear apart from the red blood cell count ( RBC 6.04, PCV 29.5 AND hb 10.5 ). Our vet thinks it’s gastric ulcers due to stress so my boy started gastroguard and iron today. And he said he is probably bleeding internally from the ulcers and there is extra protein from the bleeding in the gut so that is why he is gassy. His faeces is slightly darker and smaller balls than normal. We are waiting on the feacal test.
BUT the vet can’t explain the extra peeing over the last few days and I’m so worried ?, our boy is fine in every other way, heart rate, temp. Ect. Is normal but he is a tiny bit lethargic especially when he coliced. I’m not experienced with this sort of thing and I just want my boy to be okay, any thoughts ?
