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I got down to the yard this morning, said hi to Storm then looked over Missy's door and she was laying down with her front legs outstretched in front of her like she was about to get up but she didn't. I left her for bit while I filled haynets and when I went back to look she was still in the same place so I gave her a shove to see if she could actually get up and she did after struggling and then she stood there curling up her top lip and she looked thoroughly pissed off so I rang the vet.
While waiting or the vet she layed down and went to sleep again and got up just before the vet arrived he did his thing and the poor mite had colic
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Can't think what set it off but I think she'd had it for hours before I found her because her haynet had barely been touched. She's happily tucking to a haynet now but in my 7 years of horse ownership this is the first time I've had a horse go down with colic.....I don't think thats bad going
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I work at an Equine vets- we have had loads of cases in last month or 2! Mostly first time colics like yours. My vet (not work) came to a colic on our yard this week and thinks its because so many are in so much this winter that are used to being out in the day. Makes sense to me, mine are never in more than 1 day a week but this year been in 3 or 4 so gutzing grass when they do get a day out. I guess the more sensitive get coliccy from the changing routines.

Could this explain it?
 
One of mine has just had colic while on box rest,I came to the conclusion that she wasn't drinking enough so everything had bunged up inside.
Needless to say this was on a sunday-called vet out,managed to get her to drink,vet arrived and she was fine!!
Just waiting for large bill now
 
Poor girl, I'm glad she's ok now though.

Mine got colic for the first time last week, but it was due to eating far too much rich grass (they'd just changed fields), and she sorted herself out once she was stopped from eating.
I think they like to keep us on our toes
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Has your hay supply changed recently?
 
they always get things wrong on a sunday and need the vet when its more expensive! one of mine had colic in the summer, there had been nothing different to normal routine or anything, vet couldnt explain why just one of those things!
 
One of the shetties has had colic twice in the past 4 weeks the first time he ended up going to liverpool because they had trouble scoping him because he is so small. He stayed in for a couple of days but they couldn't find a cause, there was no blockage. Then 2 weeks later he colicked again but this time buscapan worked more or less straight away, the vet that came said there had been a lot more cases and wondered if it was due to the wet conditions.
I know exactly how you feel, i lost my boy to colic 2 years ago, he was 24 but very healthy and fine when i put him to bed, no change in his routine, i came up to find him on the floor his head covered in cuts where he had thrased against the wall, the vet and ourselves tried in vain to save him but we could not even settle him enough to travel for surgery nothing worked, he gave up fighting himself and he had to be pts. That was the worst day of my live and in 15 years was the first time i had had to deal with colic. We feed fennell now when the horses have had a mild colic or when they change fields.
 
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Has your hay supply changed recently?

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No it's the same type of stuff. Her worming was late (
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) but only by a few weeks so I don't think thats a cause. I guess it's just one of those things
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