Wouldn't normally ask but... vibes please

Oh Law im sooooo sorry to hear about this. I really do hope its all going to be sorted. When Shadow used to get chike i have to admit it was never bad enough to need the vet- we just used to spend an hour massaging it down the thoat- i guess Darcy swallowed a bigger mouthfull poor babe! lots of hugs your way! Keep us up to date xxx
 
Thanks

Off to do a final check for the night now. Fingers crossed that he's drunk a fair bit of water and has dry nostrils
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Oh honey, I had hoped he would have cleared it.

I would agree with HorseGroupieLLT2, I had to be quite forceful when Grace had colic to have her referred to Leahurst (I actually broke down and my knees went from under me... they then saw how exhausted I was and how heart broken I was...). It was my Dad who just said to them that she was going now, so could they phone the hospital and tell them to expect us.

Vets have to be so careful with regards to referrals in my experience because they don't want to send a horse before it is necessary. I have everything crossed for you!!!
 
I don't want to get my hopes up but I've just got back from checking him... he's drunk more water than he's managed yet but he's also thrown it back out complete with grains of calm and condition so it looks like it's coming out the front instead of going through. I *think* I should be glad that it is dislodging
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He's nice and quiet from the sedative too. Not stressed and seems ok. Still a little dribble from the nose though
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Oh i am sorry to hear this Law. We had the old pony on the yard do this and it is truely awful she robbed another horses food by barging out and gulped down the Calm and condition too. It will clear and in actual fact most vets really dont like even tubing as the gullet can swell and become weak so i think the fact that your lad is doing for himself little by little is the best. i know its awful to watch but he will get better especially if he is clever enough to keep trying to drink .
Lots of hugs
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Fingers' crossed firmly for him, choke is horrible to watch and there is often no real reason why one horse will get it and another not.
His throat may be swollen from the tubing so that won't help either.
If it's coming out that's great, and with any luck as it dissolves with the water he can get rid of it the normal route.
If by this morning he is still blocked I would ask for a referral if he were mine , as this has gone on longer than any choke I've seen. and there may be another casue than plain choking.
No doubt you will be feeding him sloppy feeds from now on but I would never give this horse a dry feed again, once they've had it they get it again I've discovered.
I feed a little oil with every feed plus some speedi or alfabeet, since doing that (touch wood) we haven't had any cases.
 
Thanks all. (PeterNatt it did have oil in it).

Well, I got there this morning nice and early and was met by normal psycho Darcy!
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Not at all happy at being in with no food once the sedation had worn off. He'd drunk a whole bucket of water and there was lots of C&C granules on the rubber mats.
Took him for a long walk as instructed by vet and 40 minutes later he was still convinced he was starved and was dragging me to anything that looked edible incuding the picnic table
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Another 40 minutes of walking later and the vet finally called back to say if he was back to normal (or appeared to be) that he could go out and eat some very wet haylege. So he's gone out and seems to be coping ok. I'm going back in a bit to make sure though.
Tonight he can have the sloppiest food I can make him and he'l have to stay like that for a couple of days.

Fingers crossed that it's all passed and he should be fine
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THANK YOU so much for your best wishes and vibes
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