Blizzard
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Lastnight some boys in a car came speeding into the yard holding my friends saddle, (she was out riding her mare), they said my friend needed help and a vet NOW, but they didnt know anymore.
So we raced down to find her.
Half a mile down the road she was walking alongside her mare, whose back legs kept buckling and she was falling down onto the road. On first sight it looked like a fractured leg, but it soon became apparant that the horse was trying to get down to roll, anything but walk.
We called the vet and my poor friend did brilliantly keeping the horse moving and literally having to drag her up they eventually got back to the yard, after the mare, all 16.2hh of her, managing to roll on the road a couple of times.
On arrival back at the yard the mare just collapsed again, this time in the garden, the rolled a few times, then just lay there. Her mouth was covered in blood from where she had bit into her gums when falling on the road.
After 15mins she got up. The vet came and by then she was shaking but seemed ok.
He was unsure if it was azoturia or colic at first because of the symptoms.
However we now think it was severe colic.
We have very little grass at the mo the starvation paddock is actually longer than the field, so my friend had put her mare in there yesterday for a few hours, so perhaps it was the new shoots that had caused it, with all the wet, then sun and warmth? She hadnt had hard feed etc.
My horse had been in that paddock the day before and was fine.
Now of course everyone is worrying because no one wants to put their horse in the starvation paddock to eat the grass incase their horse gets colic. The person who erectred and is supposed to be using the starvation paddock has taken their pony out because there wasnt enough grass...to let it GROW!!
So we have lost 1/3 of an acre but have the same amount of horses on the field.
Anyway I would be interested in anyone's opinions.
The vet now doesnt think it was tying up because she wasnt stiff at all, but such severe colic, it was terrifying. My friend coped brilliantly, its a good thing she is strong as she was literally having to pull the horse up.
So we raced down to find her.
Half a mile down the road she was walking alongside her mare, whose back legs kept buckling and she was falling down onto the road. On first sight it looked like a fractured leg, but it soon became apparant that the horse was trying to get down to roll, anything but walk.
We called the vet and my poor friend did brilliantly keeping the horse moving and literally having to drag her up they eventually got back to the yard, after the mare, all 16.2hh of her, managing to roll on the road a couple of times.
On arrival back at the yard the mare just collapsed again, this time in the garden, the rolled a few times, then just lay there. Her mouth was covered in blood from where she had bit into her gums when falling on the road.
After 15mins she got up. The vet came and by then she was shaking but seemed ok.
He was unsure if it was azoturia or colic at first because of the symptoms.
However we now think it was severe colic.
We have very little grass at the mo the starvation paddock is actually longer than the field, so my friend had put her mare in there yesterday for a few hours, so perhaps it was the new shoots that had caused it, with all the wet, then sun and warmth? She hadnt had hard feed etc.
My horse had been in that paddock the day before and was fine.
Now of course everyone is worrying because no one wants to put their horse in the starvation paddock to eat the grass incase their horse gets colic. The person who erectred and is supposed to be using the starvation paddock has taken their pony out because there wasnt enough grass...to let it GROW!!
Anyway I would be interested in anyone's opinions.
The vet now doesnt think it was tying up because she wasnt stiff at all, but such severe colic, it was terrifying. My friend coped brilliantly, its a good thing she is strong as she was literally having to pull the horse up.
