Foxycadno
New User
Hi All, just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience with Strangles: Back in November my riding horse became ill with a cough, temperature and generally under the weather. The vet diagnosed aspiration pneumonia after two visits and it wasn't until a third visit, after other ponies became ill with more classic Strangles symptoms that Strangles was confirmed. Unfortunately, the delay in diagnosis meant that the original horse had had access to all my others and no bio security measures had been put in place because of the pnuemonia diagnosis. Anyway, it basically went through my whole herd of Shetlands and the last pony became symptomatic at the end of December and was symptom free by 7th January. We haven't seen any symptoms in any ponies since then. At the time we decided to cancel all sales until Easter to be safe (vet advised 6 weeks) so nothing has been on or off the yard since the initial diagnosis. One of the ponies that was heavily symptomatic from 15th December for around 7 or 8 days was a 3yo homebred gelding. He had a really snotty nose, loss of condition, slight cough and was really miserable, but no abscesses. Once he was better he has been fine ever since, but yesterday an abscess burst under his jaw - 4 months on from his initial infection! He is absolutely fine in himself, just has this abscess which was quite gooey yesterday. The vets have just advised to give Bute if needed, and re-isolate for 6 weeks, but I am curious as to why there could be a time lapse between symptoms? Anybody experienced similar?
