Oh my poor friend, Strangles related.

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A horse on my friends yard is being tested for strangles, shes most upset that her horses may have contracted the disease, unfortunately having never had any experience of the disease i dont feel like i can offer her constructive assurances apart from stay away from said horse and dont move anything on or off the yard until the vet confirms.
To be honest after her telling me the situation i felt really angry for her, APARENTLY, owner of said horse brought a yearlng onto the yard as was considering purchasing it, yearling now been returned after days of parading it around the yard and now has a horse being tested for strangles, aparently there are no quaranteen proceedures in place on te yard and YO will not confirm, my friend was advised of the situation on her yard by a third party not a livery on this yard.
Sorry to be so vague i honestly dont know the ins, outs or facts just the gist.
What rights as an owner does she have to know about the situation and it is likely that the disease will spread throughout the yard or just to those animals in direct contact. Its a DIY yard and friends horses are seperate from the main stable block.
 
My horse is currently on a strangle's contained paddock, we're half way through our "countdown" days to having swabs takens.

Unfortunately for her, unless she had her horse swabbed, or the person with a comfirmed case on the yard tells her its strangles, she will have no right to know.

Any horse thats had contact with the horse with strangles should be put into isolation and not have no contact with any other horse. As for people seeing to them, it should be limited and they should not have contact with any other horse unless in a complete change of clothes/footwear ( vet advised us to wear overalls on top of clothes, also to wash clothes at 60degrees to kill it.) and clean hands.
Buckets, headcollars, rugs, anything thats been in contact with the infected horse should be cleaned ( there is a product that will kill stranlges, i cant remember the name, its pink and beginnings with V )

Noting should come in or out the yard until the vet gives the clear. Although i believe there is no law to back this up, its just seen as a care for others act.
 
Thankyou LottiesLuck, thats really kind and helpful of you to share that information.
I felt quite angry for her in that i would want to know if my horses ran the risk of contracting something as serious of strangles, i certainly would inform all my owners if we had any suspect cases on our yard, surely its only the right thing to do.
 
We had strangles on our yard a few years ago...most of the horses ended up with it...some really ill - ALL made a full recovery.

At that time there were no quarantine restrictions on new arrivals....now, all horses need to have blood tests or swabs and be quarantined away from others for 2 weeks......talk about shutting the door, but hey-ho.

Yes...'twas a nightmare...to this day a sachet of Virkon can trigger a flashback
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The yard was on complete shutdown for several months- all horses needed to have 3 clear swabs before the restrictions were lifted......no off-yard hacking, no shows etc ...crap summer that was.

At least the horses were all ok.......vets were fantastic though.
 
Your welcome.

I was on the side as her in a way, although my horse contracted it, it was brought on to the field by another liveries carelessness. Its not nice, and it sure hangs around for a while, ive felt very angry throughout seeing my horse suffer and then the expense of the vet..

You'd be surprised at how many people find out at a fast rate, people in the area were gossiping about our yard having strangles before it was even confirmed by a vet and test results
 
I've had a strangles infected pony - and recovering from laminitis at the same time - they can get quite ill, the running sores under the gutteral pouch are not nice and my one was left with an ittitated cough for about 18 months.

Not much you can do - use the antibiotics the vet gives you and keep the pony isolation away from any wellwishers or visitors.

We have several horses so we took rotas of doing the pony and then going home and changing our clothes, washing our hands etc. before going to the other ones.

We didn't bother with Virkon S for stables because they were all kept out - but just used Milton fluid/Tesco's version on everything else instead.

Careful not to cross contaminate buckets or feed stirrers/scoops etc.

Some horses take it very badly - soem bounce back quickly. Provide them with plenty of good nutrition - antioxidants and minerals. Herbs that might help are nettle, neem leaf, chamomile, elecampagne, liquorice , but definitely rosehip powder and nettle if you can give them (cotswoldHerbs.biz).

Our little lad also had linseed meal soaked up - the mucilage seemed to help him.
 
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