meesha
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Hope you have a good update by now x
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Hormonal Filly
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Hoping for a good update @J_sarahd 
Michen
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Thinking of you xx
Caol Ila
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Another checking thread for an update.
J_sarahd
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Not heard anything since this morning, hoping that’s a good sign but I’m also aware she probably hasn’t pooped yet
Michen
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Can you go in and visit her?
Tiddlypom
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Hoping for productive poop news shortly.
It‘s very stressful balancing two serious issues but IMHO colic trumps the lameness. Something in the rehab yard management has triggered the impaction, I’d want her away from there and back under my own care once she‘s discharged.
It‘s very stressful balancing two serious issues but IMHO colic trumps the lameness. Something in the rehab yard management has triggered the impaction, I’d want her away from there and back under my own care once she‘s discharged.
J_sarahd
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I can go and visit her but the vets are quite strict with people visiting on Sundays so I will go and visit tomorrow.
The vet said she will ring the rehab yard to see what happened in the day before she colicked
The vet said she will ring the rehab yard to see what happened in the day before she colicked
meesha
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Great news u can go tomorrow. That's good then vet is ringing the yard.
Hopefully she will be home soon.
Hopefully she will be home soon.
J_sarahd
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Just had another call from the vets and she has been out for 4.5 hours and managed to pass a few poops so she has been given a sloppy mash. Still not out of the woods but hopefully things are looking up.
The rehab yard said the only thing they can think of is that she has eaten some of her straw bed as she has her hay on the floor and drags it into her bed.
The rehab yard said the only thing they can think of is that she has eaten some of her straw bed as she has her hay on the floor and drags it into her bed.
Bradsmum
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hope she continues to improve and poo.Ceriann
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That’s great news!
meesha
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Great news, get some mash in readiness.
Could well be straw bed and poss less turnout than normal?
Could well be straw bed and poss less turnout than normal?
meleeka
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Good news. I hope it continues. Two friends of mine had impaction colic with their horses, because of straw beds, so I think it’s pretty common.
catembi
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Hope she continues to improve! One of mine once had a bad impaction colic from eating straw & avoided surgery by the skin of his teeth. Wasn't allowed near straw again, never colicked again & I think he must be 22 or 23 now. (Sold but I know his new owner.)
Michen
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That’s great news!!
J_sarahd
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Just rang my vets as I’ve not had an update today and they’re happy with her. They’ve started her back with some little bits of hay with the hope that they can slowly refeed tomorrow with an aim to discharge her on Wednesday.
Still very much in two minds about where she will be going to on Wednesday. There’s pros and cons to both.
I obviously feel anxious about taking her back to the rehab yard in case she colics again. There was something in that set up that made her colic in the first place but if it is just as simple as her eating the straw then that’s fixable. Plus they will have more time to reintroduce work as and when she is up to it and even do the other therapies that she’s been having.
If she comes home, I’ll have more control over her but I’ll definitely worry about her from the moment I leave in the evening until I get the she’s fine message in the morning and then again until I go up again. I can’t really make multiple trips.
It’s so hard. I tried to ask the vet but she was non-committal - I guess in case she says one thing and we get another colic episode
Still very much in two minds about where she will be going to on Wednesday. There’s pros and cons to both.
I obviously feel anxious about taking her back to the rehab yard in case she colics again. There was something in that set up that made her colic in the first place but if it is just as simple as her eating the straw then that’s fixable. Plus they will have more time to reintroduce work as and when she is up to it and even do the other therapies that she’s been having.
If she comes home, I’ll have more control over her but I’ll definitely worry about her from the moment I leave in the evening until I get the she’s fine message in the morning and then again until I go up again. I can’t really make multiple trips.
It’s so hard. I tried to ask the vet but she was non-committal - I guess in case she says one thing and we get another colic episode
asmp
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Can you get a Reolink camera put up? We’ve all got them up the yard I’m on and I know one lady who sets her alarm in the middle of the night to check on her elderly Shetland who had 2 colic operations a couple of years ago (although I probably wouldn’t go that far!). We run ours off a Giffgaff SIM card.
SO1
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Could you chose a different rehab yard that doesn't bed down on straw or ask rehab yard to bed her on shavings.
Is she in box rest? It is more common for colics to occur for horses who are not moving around much.
J_sarahd
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That is an option if she comes home. It’s just affording it that’s the problem.
So I think they also do shavings or I am happy to drop off some bales of Heavenly Bedding (which is what I use) but then again that’s a chopped straw and shavings mix so is that “allowed”?
No, she isn’t. She is in for rehabbing kissing spine so she’s out similar hours to at home (8-3/4ish) and she has been exercised (not ridden) 6 days a week so she is getting plenty of movement.
meleeka
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I think, for your sanity, I’d send her back to rehab yard, but only if they are willing to change her bedding. I’m not surprised she colicked if she’s not used to a straw bed and she suddenly got an all-you-can-eat buffet.
SO1
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It is strange that she ate the straw bed when she had hay available are you sure the rehab yard are giving enough hay or hay that she will eat?
How much longer does she have at rehab?
CanteringCarrot
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I don't know though. Some horses will still eat straw when perfectly fine hay is available. Most of the time it's not an issue.
Michen
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I don't think it's necessarily something in the set up. Horses sometimes just colic, no reason or change it just happens.
Annagain
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At least at the rehab yard there’s someone around most of the time to keep an eye on her.
PinkvSantaboots
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Arabi will eat all his hay and every scrap of clean straw given the chance
Hence why he never has a straw bed.
J_sarahd
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That’s my thinking too. If she comes home, I’ll be up as much as possible but it won’t be much more than 3 hours a day. Plus I don’t trust anyone at my yard to tell me if she is colicking.
PinkvSantaboots
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I think I would put her on the rehab yard and supply them with her usual bedding.
You could also request she has soaked hay it will definitely help stop an impaction.
maya2008
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One of mine moved to a friend’s yard for ease of rehab some years ago. Shavings bed. Same haylage as at home. Colic within 48 hours. Vet hospital etc. She had ulcers, and vets said it was just the stress of the injury combined with the move, she didn’t drink enough and then bam off she went. Went back there after hospital and was fine.
Sometimes it is just stress and being somewhere different.
Sometimes it is just stress and being somewhere different.
misst
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Sorry it has all been so stressful. Hoping you will be getting good news tomorrow. x