would you call the vet

Sounds like you have been very very lucky.
So sadly yesterday my Friends TB came in form the field, looking under the weather and rolled in his bed, just the once. nothing too dramatic - but the owner knew it was odd.

Vet called within 5 mins

60mins later. Dead.
 
Happy Hunter said:
Sounds like you have been very very lucky.
So sadly yesterday my Friends TB came in form the field, looking under the weather and rolled in his bed, just the once. nothing too dramatic - but the owner knew it was odd.

Vet called within 5 mins

60mins later. Dead.
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oh that is awful, poor owner!!
 
OP, glad your horse has made a full recovery. You were extremely lucky that it was not serious..
Colic is a serious and life threatening condition for horses. I am surprised that you did not call the vet when you found your horse rolling and sweating, this would indicate a fair amount of pain! Perhaps in future you should be a bit quicker to speak to your vet as you may not be so lucky...
My horse has suffered with colic twice this year. First time was an impaction needing 8 days at the vets. Second was a mild bout of gassy colic only needing one call out and an injection. Both times horse was starved until the gut had returned to normal function. So it is not always best to keep feeding a colicy horse.
 
hi guys , thanks for the advice, i will call vet next time but i thought if he started rolling in the field when put him out would have got vet right away he had same thing when snow was here last week vet said just dig him holes so he can get to grass so i did thats why i put him out this morning on vets advice he gets colic because his not eating much so now his living out 24/7 . please dont think im a bad owner i was just trying to do my best , i have just been out and checked him and his all ok . thanks again xx
 
At the end of the day, you are following your vet's advice, who is currently dealing with this horse, which has existing problems, so next time just ring the vet quicker if you're worried. As you can see, you will get a mass of contrasting advice and replies on here -most of which are valid in different circumstances, but none of which know the horse is question, or saw how bad the colic was... If you don't have faith in the vet, change, simple.

If he's getting colic BECAUSE he is not eating enough as he is living out, couldn't you bring him in at night or something? Didn't quite understand this part...

As for the lol bit - sounded like a nervous laugh from someone trying to move the thread away from the abusive posts, and back to advice...
 
Honey08 said:
As for the lol bit - sounded like a nervous laugh from someone trying to move the thread away from the abusive posts, and back to advice...
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I would hardly call the two posts abusive. Mine was merely asking why the OP had done what they did (before calling the vet). I didn't know that the horse had had similar problems before as it was not stated, and I don't make a habit of reading every post a user has made before, and so didn't know that this was at the advice of vets. It just went against the things I have been told (again, by vets) to do when dealing with horses with colic over the years. The other post was just a load of question marks. Again, doesn't strike me as being abusive in the slightest?

Anyway, sorry OP this didn't answer your question but I dislike my post being called abusive when it clearly wasn't and CERTAINLY wasn't intended to be. I think some people are a bit oversensitive- people are throwing the words "abusive" and "bullying" around rather a lot at the moment.

Good luck with your horse. Look forward to seeing some photos. Glad he's OK.

Edit: Honey08- the OP says the horse was struggling to eat HAY, it seems he can eat grass OK so bringing him in at night is what caused the problem. That's how it came across in the first post anyway.
 
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Happy Hunter said:
Sounds like you have been very very lucky.
So sadly yesterday my Friends TB came in form the field, looking under the weather and rolled in his bed, just the once. nothing too dramatic - but the owner knew it was odd.

Vet called within 5 mins

60mins later. Dead.
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Tragic. I'm so sorry.
 
Happy Hunter
Sorry to hear about your friend's horse, the only time a horse of mine has had colic it turned out the same.
Horse was just a bit tucked up & miserabe looking but I had a bad feeling so called out the emercency vet (& exagerated her symptoms over the phone as I knew it sounded ridiculus to call out an emergency vet because of a tucked up horse)
She did a poo on the way into the yard but the horse was still dead within an hour, she was put down but was barely alive.
The op sounds very very lucky to have got away with it this time.
 
Our two who crib get gassy colic from time to time and we don’t call for the vet immediately. They get some bute and then walked around in hand and they normally come round pretty quick.. but think it probably depends what kind of colic it is? We’ve never had any problems apart from with these 2 cribbers.. never had a cribber before either.. see the link?!

OP – sounds like he is over it now and it was probably brought on by not eating? Why is he not eating any hay? Is he really old or something.
 
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