Sudden diarrhoea (horse, not me!)

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Got to the yard this morning and the TB appears to have had the squits all night. This isn't normal for her. She is normally a big solid poo girl. She seems ok in herself. She's been hacked out daily for a few weeks, but did get caught in the vile wind, rain, hail, thunder and lightning (yes all on one hack!) the other day. Took her out for a hack again this morning and seemed ok, but came back and still got squits. There is a draught in her stable which I can't eliminate, but she's been ok with it in the past. No other symptoms and eating and behaving fine. No change to her routine or feed and my other pony who has the same feed and routine is fine. Could it just be a chill?
 
Speak to your vet about this today and take their advice, but take the horse's temperature first so that you can tell the vet what it is. The diarrhoea may clear up on its own, but neither you or the vet want an emergency call out to a sick horse over Christmas, if it can possibly be avoided.

Eta ask vet re advisability of using equest at the mo, or waiting til horse is better.
 
Tiddlypom said:
Speak to your vet about this today and take their advice, but take the horse's temperature first so that you can tell the vet what it is. The diarrhoea may clear up on its own, but neither you or the vet want an emergency call out to a sick horse over Christmas, if it can possibly be avoided.

Eta ask vet re advisability of using equest at the mo, or waiting til horse is better.
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Yes I am going back to the yard today at 4pm and will check her then - if still got squits, will call into vets on way home as they are open til late and speak to them. Am going to get some Equest anyway and will ask vets whether to give it now, or when diarrhoea has cleared up. Thanks
 
I'd worm the horse now before they do any more damage. Worm egg counts only show the aprox number of egg laying adult worms in your horse, they don't pick up on larvae that have burrowed into the gut wall to hibernate.
 
Sugar_and_Spice said:
I'd worm the horse now before they do any more damage. Worm egg counts only show the aprox number of egg laying adult worms in your horse, they don't pick up on larvae that have burrowed into the gut wall to hibernate.
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The diarrhoea may be not be due to any worm burden, but caused by something else. It may make matters worse to dose the horse with a fairly harsh chemical whilst it already has an upset gut from an unrelated cause.

One for the vet to call, I think. I'm sure that the OP will want to worm the horse in the near future though, to shift any encysted red worms, it's just a case of the timing.
 
I am going to the vets now. They will also be able to tell me when I last did them with Equest as it will be on my account. I will speak to one of the horse vets and if they're not in, they will phone me back. I am hoping to go back to the yard to find some nice solid poos later!
 
I have been to the vets and spoken to the best equine vet there. He is not overly concerned as horse is well in herself. He said to monitor her and if gets worse, to call them out. He said not to worm until diarrhoea has cleared up but said that he would be very surprised if it was worms causing it as he would expect other symptoms and for horse to be poorly with it. I will take their advice and monitor her.
 
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