rachi0
Well-Known Member
Thought I'd share a story with you as I'm not sure how common it is:
Clydesdale mare showing signs of mild colic- vet called rectalled mare and called for a second opinion! Verdict of both vets was uterine torsion. This mare is 30 days off her due date! Scanned mare and foetus is still alive although mare had a fair bit of free fluid in her abdomen and possible gut involvement.
The mare wasn't going to be sent for surgery but we were allowed to try and correct it on farm. So after lots of scanning and rectalling it's decided we will knock the mare out and give it a go to correct!
Mare had previously broken her pelvis about 6 years ago.
Knock the mare out she didnt go down with too much of a crash but as she went down there was a bit crack and all our hearts sank!! She was laying on her right side - a plank of wood was placed on her belly just infront of her point of hip ropes were put on all 4 legs and we had a heavy bloke put a fair bit of pressure on the plank as we slowly rolled her from her right side to her left side. We repeated twice and torsion was corrected!
Then was the wait to see if she could get back up! After she came round she managed to although she was extremely sore!!! Torsion still corrected and foetus still alive!! She improved movement wise the day after and foetus was still good and torsion hadn't reoccured!!!
Unfortunately yesterday the mare went down for a sleep and couldn't get back up so was put to sleep!!!! Devastated about the mare as she was such a stoic lady just the most beautiful mare to deal with!! But very interesting to see how we fixed the torsion!
Clydesdale mare showing signs of mild colic- vet called rectalled mare and called for a second opinion! Verdict of both vets was uterine torsion. This mare is 30 days off her due date! Scanned mare and foetus is still alive although mare had a fair bit of free fluid in her abdomen and possible gut involvement.
The mare wasn't going to be sent for surgery but we were allowed to try and correct it on farm. So after lots of scanning and rectalling it's decided we will knock the mare out and give it a go to correct!
Mare had previously broken her pelvis about 6 years ago.
Knock the mare out she didnt go down with too much of a crash but as she went down there was a bit crack and all our hearts sank!! She was laying on her right side - a plank of wood was placed on her belly just infront of her point of hip ropes were put on all 4 legs and we had a heavy bloke put a fair bit of pressure on the plank as we slowly rolled her from her right side to her left side. We repeated twice and torsion was corrected!
Then was the wait to see if she could get back up! After she came round she managed to although she was extremely sore!!! Torsion still corrected and foetus still alive!! She improved movement wise the day after and foetus was still good and torsion hadn't reoccured!!!
Unfortunately yesterday the mare went down for a sleep and couldn't get back up so was put to sleep!!!! Devastated about the mare as she was such a stoic lady just the most beautiful mare to deal with!! But very interesting to see how we fixed the torsion!
