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I bought my new ex-racehorse on Tuesday from ascot sales.

I worked him yesterday and he coughed a few times and did quite alot of blowing (not the correct word, but i mean when they blow through their nose)

He has not coughed in the stable or when grazing but did have some thick snot (sorry if your eating) this moring coming down his nose.

I dont think its anything serious as he only came over from ireland on Monday so i think he has picked something up whilst traveling.

Does anyone know of anything good on the market i could give him to speed up his recovery?

I have also put him on wet hay and i am wetting his feed too.

many Thanks
 
Mine intermittently does this as he has slight COPD. He is on feedmarks clarity full time and then when the season changes he has recharge for a month. His hay is either soaked or steamed (made my own steamer). I also put some hay in a bucket with olibus oil and boiled water over an wave it under his nose. This helps get all the thick snot out.

As you've just go the horse I'd also just mention it to your vet
 
The likelihood is he is a bit run down from travelling about, immunity is low and he has succombed to a local bug! Unlikely to be anything serious.

Mine was exactly the same when I bought him in January. Personally I played it very safe and had a blood sample run and a short course of antibiotics. I know it's added expense but I wanted to nip it in the bud quickly and not expose the yard to anything unnecissarily.

Horse was completely recovered within a few days.
 
ihatework said:
The likelihood is he is a bit run down from travelling about, immunity is low and he has succombed to a local bug! Unlikely to be anything serious.

Mine was exactly the same when I bought him in January. Personally I played it very safe and had a blood sample run and a short course of antibiotics. I know it's added expense but I wanted to nip it in the bud quickly and not expose the yard to anything unnecissarily.

Horse was completely recovered within a few days.
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Brilliant advice.
 
ihatework said:
The likelihood is he is a bit run down from travelling about, immunity is low and he has succombed to a local bug! Unlikely to be anything serious.

Mine was exactly the same when I bought him in January. Personally I played it very safe and had a blood sample run and a short course of antibiotics. I know it's added expense but I wanted to nip it in the bud quickly and not expose the yard to anything unnecissarily.

Horse was completely recovered within a few days.
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Excellent advice for a horse that has come over from Ireland as you don't really know what environment he was in before hand.

I have however recently moved my mare to a new yard (had on her prev yard for 4 years so knew her old environment) and she developed a cough, i rang the vets for advice and they said it will probably be due to the new environment / different grazing / pollens etc, she may also have got abit stressed with the move, she had no temperature and no mucus so they suggested the following:

Wetting her hay, feeding her from the floor, as much turnout as i can, i also gave her Naf Respirator and Lincoln Cough Syrup.

Took about 2 weeks to clear, but she is fine now with no lasting effects.

Hope this helps.
 
when any of ours has a cough, on the first instance we give a syringe of benylin twice a day and it usually clears in a couple of days
 
Thanks guys, i rode him last night and he only coughed once :-)

I have put him on Kof-eze for 10 days and if that doesnt help i will get the vet to give him a course of anti-biotics to be on the safe side.

Thanks
 
Take care Kraft. Yes, could be just the stress of travelling. Could also be a virus in which case it's a waste of time giving antibx, just good diet + management and his own body will clear it eventually. If he's picked up a bacterial infection he may need a bit of help from antibx. But it may be that he's got the start (do you know for certain he didn't cough during the summer in Ireland?) of a pollen allergy. A pollen allergy leads to COPD/RAO which (of course) will kick in about June-ish and could go on until as late as October or November. If it is this, the horse will probably get worse every summer unless you can get control of the mucus production in his lungs that causes the damage. I would say that you need to be asking your vet for advice rather than the Forum being the 1st port of call. A severe pollen allergy can end up life threatening.
 
I use ventapulmin easa cough and cough tincture from equimins work every time .

also stable spray by gold label will keep stable frsh smel;ling and keep the lungs clear or if her is turned out put a nose net on so pollen cant aggrivate the cough.

I f you ride him put easa cough on the bit to help

I also use liquid airways to keep airways clear help the cough as well as airways + from gold label eucolyptus in the feed.

my pony took a while to rid cough when i bought her and it did come back briefly but i also soaked her hay or gave haylage to help make sure feed is nice and damp too anything to stop aggravate the cough rob
also get vet to re check him in case virus or any other underlining issue
 
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