Spike the spare is sick!

Alf is not enormously impressed at being incarcerated again! he is ignoring Spike and sullenly eating hay. Ungrateful git - he has the most enormous straw bed, a new supersize water bucket, and he had half a packet of rich tea biscuits to make up for being dragged in!
 
Morag4 said:
Brilliant to hear the wee guy is home!

I'm sure Alf wil get over his snit soon.
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He will. He looked a bit sore when i brought him in, after a "power sliding into field shelter - and every nearly out the other side through the wall" incident yesterday, so I think a night in his stable will be good for him. Spike was SO pleased to see him (until the hay arrived obv!)
 
Just been down to feed them and check he's still standing! He's produced some normal looking droppings (Alf, not to be outdone, had done 4!) Spikey is very full of himself - bucking in the stable when I appeared with his feed bucket!!!! He wasn't particularly bothered by food before, but a week of starvation has created a monster!
 
I think he'll be fine to go out with his buddies tomorrow. I was expecting him to be a bit more pulled down by this, and need a bit of peace and quiet, but he really is jumping out of his skin. Hand graze n the morning I think, and will then think about popping him out with the others for a couple of hours. They're all pretty good as long as they don't have hay/feed to argue about!
 
Great news he is home and feeling so well. Does he have a dodgy clip on the side you didn't take a picture of? :p The first of my mares that got the lower intestine scan had a neat square, but when my other one needed it, they did a horrendous tear shape on both sides, it was the least flattering thing I've ever seen!
 
now_loves_mares said:
Great news he is home and feeling so well. Does he have a dodgy clip on the side you didn't take a picture of? :p The first of my mares that got the lower intestine scan had a neat square, but when my other one needed it, they did a horrendous tear shape on both sides, it was the least flattering thing I've ever seen!
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Err - no. I started clipping him just before he got ill, and realised within about three strokes that my blades were blunt. Quite lucky under the circumstances!
 
Auslander said:
Err - no. I started clipping him just before he got ill, and realised within about three strokes that my blades were blunt. Quite lucky under the circumstances!
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And I just realised that you weren't talking about his neck stripe anyway! He has a large clipped patch on his stomach where they did the peritoneal tap, but its quite neat!
 
Auslander said:
Err - no. I started clipping him just before he got ill, and realised within about three strokes that my blades were blunt. Quite lucky under the circumstances!
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Oh sorry no I meant when he had the scan. They normally have to clip to get a decent picture of their gut. I was sure I read that he'd had a scan to check for hind gut ulcers. My mistake. But glad he is warm under his fluff!
 
Cross post! Haha I didn't even see his neck, I had the same thing! When my first poorly mare got hers, the vet got a nice neat shape, but was embarrassed that everyone thought the awful neck stripe was her work. In my defence, the horse hated being clipped, I was going for practicality, and the vet had sedation on her side!
 
He's that hungry that he's just tried to eat the dog!

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