berry
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Ok Ill start at the begining.
One of the part timers at the yard where I work brought his horse there approx 10 weeks ago, went through the usual quantine(sp) procedure etc, everything was fine been in fields with others said hello to nearly everyone on the yard all seemed well.
About 2 weeks ago hurt his leg and had to have restricted turnout so YO put pen up in between his usual field and the mares, well last Thursday he got himself in a right state over one of the mares who had just come in to season, he was trying to mount her over the fence etc getting really worked up and stressed so eventually caught him and brought him in, carried on working.
Came in to work Friday morning gave breakfast feeds out caught ponies in that were in fields turned others out, went to get him ready to go out and he had only eaten a little of his brekkie.
I thought nothing of it as I thought his owner must of put his bute in there (he never eats his food if theres any medication in there). He was really quiet in field but was grazing and calling to others and looked well in himself. Owner finished him off.
Anyway I had 3 days off, came in on Tuesday to see a note that the mentioned horse had a temp of 40.1 on Sat, had vet out who said was a virus and left some bute to bring his temp down. Temp on Sun and Mon was 39.7.
Looked in his stable and he was not a happy bunny he had'nt eated anything all night he was dehydrated, really pale gums, coughing, snot/mucas flying out of nose, done his temp back up to 39.9, rang his owner and told him he needed a vet he told me to wait till 9am and phone for him which I did.
Vet came out thinking it was just a upper respiritory(sp) infection after speaking to emergancy vet cover peson, straight away he went back and got a nasal swab told us to quaratine him and left some penicilin which needs to be injected, asked if any others are showing any signs of being ill which none are, then said he will hopefully have some results back by Friday and that hopefully it is not strangles but the bug that imitates it.
My YO is insisting that its not as he has been here to long and has'nt been anywhere to contract it but am I wrong in thinking that some horse's can carry the bug but not get it and if he was carrying it, it could be brought on by stress.
Sorry to ramble on but could someone tell me if I am right on this matter, or totally off the mark
One of the part timers at the yard where I work brought his horse there approx 10 weeks ago, went through the usual quantine(sp) procedure etc, everything was fine been in fields with others said hello to nearly everyone on the yard all seemed well.
About 2 weeks ago hurt his leg and had to have restricted turnout so YO put pen up in between his usual field and the mares, well last Thursday he got himself in a right state over one of the mares who had just come in to season, he was trying to mount her over the fence etc getting really worked up and stressed so eventually caught him and brought him in, carried on working.
Came in to work Friday morning gave breakfast feeds out caught ponies in that were in fields turned others out, went to get him ready to go out and he had only eaten a little of his brekkie.
I thought nothing of it as I thought his owner must of put his bute in there (he never eats his food if theres any medication in there). He was really quiet in field but was grazing and calling to others and looked well in himself. Owner finished him off.
Anyway I had 3 days off, came in on Tuesday to see a note that the mentioned horse had a temp of 40.1 on Sat, had vet out who said was a virus and left some bute to bring his temp down. Temp on Sun and Mon was 39.7.
Looked in his stable and he was not a happy bunny he had'nt eated anything all night he was dehydrated, really pale gums, coughing, snot/mucas flying out of nose, done his temp back up to 39.9, rang his owner and told him he needed a vet he told me to wait till 9am and phone for him which I did.
Vet came out thinking it was just a upper respiritory(sp) infection after speaking to emergancy vet cover peson, straight away he went back and got a nasal swab told us to quaratine him and left some penicilin which needs to be injected, asked if any others are showing any signs of being ill which none are, then said he will hopefully have some results back by Friday and that hopefully it is not strangles but the bug that imitates it.
My YO is insisting that its not as he has been here to long and has'nt been anywhere to contract it but am I wrong in thinking that some horse's can carry the bug but not get it and if he was carrying it, it could be brought on by stress.
Sorry to ramble on but could someone tell me if I am right on this matter, or totally off the mark
