Riding a horse after very mild colic?

[GreenEyedMonster]

My horse had very mild colic on Wednesday evening, I walked her in the school for 5 minutes because the ground was hard, got off and she got into her stable and was stretching her legs out, pawing and wanting to roll. It took a while to get hold of the vet (phones were down) so I left her with someone and when I got back about 20 minutes later she was fine, eating, drinking and seemingly at ease. She had no temperature and the vet arrived and found no impaction so just gave her bute and buscopan.

The next two days she's been fine, the vet believed it might have been either the frost or gastric ulcers.

I have given her two days off and was hoping to ride this evening, I was thinking maybe a walk and a little trot.

My question is, how soon would you introduce canter and jumping?

As I said, the colic was very mild and involved no surgery and didn't go on longer than 30 minutes so I didn't think it would be like after colic surgery where you take 6 weeks plus?

 

[be positive]

I would ride as normal if she has shown no further signs of discomfort, if there is a possibility that it was caused by her having ulcers then I would want to look into this or at least assume she may have them and be extremely careful with her management/ diet.

 

[PorkChop]

I would definitely ride as usual, yes I would scrutinise her diet and management, but otherwise I would carry on as normal.

 

[Drzoidberg2]

She'll tell you if she is not comfortable. I had a similar experience with my mare, the colic was so mild the vet wasn't even sure it was colic going by the symptoms he saw, until he did an internal exam.

I was back riding her 3 days later, walk trot and canter, she worked fine, but got tired sooner than usual so I built up from short sessions back to the usual length of a schooling session over a couple of weeks.

Just listen to your horse and if she tells you she's struggling a bit let her stop and take that as your starting point to build on.

My vet suggested it was down to the changes in the grass after a frost so I just watch her like a hawk once she comes in after turnout on frosty days now.