Recurrent colic with no obvious cause

[Cates123]

Thank you all for your kind words. It is extremely heartbreaking as he had so much potential and such a wonderful personality. His last 8 weeks were spent relaxing in the field and being doted on, so I take comfort that he felt peace in that time.

 

[nikkimariet]

So sorry for your update, I’m sure you did the right thing.

 

[Flowerofthefen]

So sorry to read this. He sounds as though he was a lovely boy and very much loved. Thinking of you.

 

[Birker2020]

My horse used to get repeated colics and the only thing I found that worked was feeding a sloppy feed and ensuring that the water bucket in the field was emptied, scrubbed and refilled every third day in the Summer.

I'd done the muzzling, the reduction of hours grazing, the strip fencing, turning out in certain conditions, worming checks, etc etc and nothing ever worked.

She always had the same gassy colic which responded to two or three bute and a 20 minute walk on the walker which the vet told me to do after the upteenth call out for the same thing.

After 10 years she got left dorsal displacement (splenic entrapment) and then again another two years later which was more serious than the first, eventually coming up to her 23rd year she stopped getting the colics after they wound down dramatically over the previous four or five years, probably to one or two episodes a year. It was just a colic that resulted in her being quiet and a reluctance to eat a treat, 20 mins on the walker always sorted her out, and she'd bound off and be ravenously eating her hay net after!

We never got to the bottom of it but the vet suggested red worm at one point, another suggested ulcers but I never bothered with scoping as she wasn't insured. Vet felt the splenic entrapment was because her colon sat quite high anyway so the gas from the grass moved it easier than it would have with other horses and a lower colon.

 

[LaurenBay]

I am so sorry to read your update. It sounds like the best decision you could have made for him, you sound like a really caring owner and I think its clear to everyone on here you did all you could for him xx

 

[nagblagger]

Sorry for your loss, i was reading the thread from the start and was so hoping for a different outcome.