Well im on colic watch for the night :-/ The joys!

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been down the yard this eve and grace was following me around like a lamb and very very quite, she has been out on the field for the last couple of days and has been stuffing her face, they were meant to come in for a few hours in the day but they wouldnt be caught so they stayed out, she has been fine up untill tonight. I watched her for a while and then she started showing some colic signs and got down on the floor but i couldnt get her up. rang the vet and he was 45 mins away so he came on down and by this time she was back up again. He examined her and heart rate and temp are good but he couldnt get his hand in to examine her as she was packed with gas! He said they stuff their face and with this hot weather they are like a furmenting bin which builds up alot of gas! so shes on the gravel paddock nill by mouth and im to go up every hour and check her, shes aloud some soaked hay when she has had a pooh. She had this colic last august aswell. We discussed that you can buy human buscopan over the counter and i think i am going to keep a supply at the yard so i can give her some if she shows early signs as that call out has prob cost me in excess of £200. not that money matters but i would like to go atleast a week without a bill ;-) especially an out of hours bill! Dont you just love horses. I think my love of horses will make me bankrupt ;-)
 
he said she will be farting like a trooper but i havnt heard anything yet. will be going back down in 30 mins or so to see if she has done a poo.
 
Hugs, on the human buscopan thing, the dosage would probably be a lot of tablets and if a horse needs buscopan then a vet should be present. Bit like trying to do a rectal exam on your own really IMO.
 
I know the feeling well! Spent many evenings down the yard till the early hours of the morning, even slept in my car overnight getting out every hour to check the horse!

I hope she is o.k. and manages to pass the gas without any more colic repeats. If you have a tack shop open near you tomorrow, Global Herbs do Feneel seeds which are good for helping neutralise gas. Worth asking your vet if they think it would benefit her to have some whilst her stomach is adjusting to the spring grass. Also gentle walking and a small amount of lunging in walk/medium trot normally gets my lad expelling the gas.

Fingers crossed for you.
 
just been down and no pooh and my tb next to her has done 3 poos in the same time frame! so im going to close my eyes for a couple of hours and go back down and check her, she seems bright enough and alot of gurgling going on, she is marching about which is good as its less work for me walking her round!
As for the buscopan, i was thinking more of when she starts to go abit quite and stop grazing if giving her some of the human form early enough will relax the gut enough to release the gas before the build up gets to bad.
 
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