LaurenBay
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Got to the yard this morning and went to the field to check them all over. 3 out the 4 were laying down (including Ruby) so I went to sit with her and she was very cuddley, but then I noticed she was breathing very heavy and faster then she usually does. I looked at the others to compare and she was deffiently taking deeper breathes then them. So I decided to get her up as it was worrying me a little. She wouldn't get up! So I ran to the gate and fetched her headcollar and ran back to her, put it on her and tried to get her up an nothing. By this point I was so worried and called my YO to ask her to come up (she lives opposite) Ruby then laid flat out and it sounded like she was snoring (may have well been) the other 2 Horses had both gotten up and one came over to her, so Ruby jumped up!! Then she had a few coughs. I watched her closely and her breathing went back to normal and she is quite happily grazing now. Is that normal? Do Horses usually find it harder to breathe when laying down? She lays down everynight in her stable (not seen, but her rug and squashed poo's tell me she had been)