charlie76
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We have a just weaned foal in the yard who is very unwell, he has had the vet many times and is going in tomorrow as he has stumped the vets.
Foal rapidly lost weight and muscle a couple of weeks ago and has since seemed to have lost sight in one eye, its totally clouded over and no reaction to movement.
His coat is dull and he has scabs all over him which have suddenly appeared.
He is very weak as you can imagine and shows colic symptoms sporadically through the day. His guts are also making a lot if noise.
The vets thought he may have a serious worm burden so he was tested, wasn't that bad but wormed under vets advice anyway.
He has also tested negative for lawsonia.
He has been on baytrill for ten days in case of infection and the vet gave us gastroguard to see if that helped, none of which have.
He has been blood tested and all have come back normal. We have also had his intestines scanned to check for abnormal fluid levels but all seems fine.
Today we had bloods done to check for any liver damage but again all seems fine.
We are at a loss as to what it could be.
He eats his hard feed and picks at hay and grass.
Membranes are all a normal colour.
Tonight we gave him a small amount of bute paste so he could be happier and he seemed brighter after so he is obviously hurting some where.
Hopefully they will no more tomorrow but thought I'd see if anyone has had similar.
Thanks
Foal rapidly lost weight and muscle a couple of weeks ago and has since seemed to have lost sight in one eye, its totally clouded over and no reaction to movement.
His coat is dull and he has scabs all over him which have suddenly appeared.
He is very weak as you can imagine and shows colic symptoms sporadically through the day. His guts are also making a lot if noise.
The vets thought he may have a serious worm burden so he was tested, wasn't that bad but wormed under vets advice anyway.
He has also tested negative for lawsonia.
He has been on baytrill for ten days in case of infection and the vet gave us gastroguard to see if that helped, none of which have.
He has been blood tested and all have come back normal. We have also had his intestines scanned to check for abnormal fluid levels but all seems fine.
Today we had bloods done to check for any liver damage but again all seems fine.
We are at a loss as to what it could be.
He eats his hard feed and picks at hay and grass.
Membranes are all a normal colour.
Tonight we gave him a small amount of bute paste so he could be happier and he seemed brighter after so he is obviously hurting some where.
Hopefully they will no more tomorrow but thought I'd see if anyone has had similar.
Thanks
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