** Pony Is Colicing ** Final UPDATE #64

[buck-wild-chick]

Im hand feeding her hay every hour.She is confused and wants to know why im starving her.LOL Shes up and acting normal .Im going to keep a eye on her tonight as well.

 

[BlackBart]

Maybe soak the hay, wouldn't hurt to rehydrate her.
Did you figure out what kind of colic?

 

[buck-wild-chick]

She has issues with chewing wood.So im thinking she might have got blocked up.

 

[19hhbelgian]

Glad to hear your girl is doing well! I lost a percheron over the winter to sand colic. Turns out he was eating dirt! We did everything and then some to try and save him, but it was his time. I'm so glad your pony came out of it, especially without having to get the vet out!

The people who said you shouldn't force the horse to walk if it doesn't want to, and it isn't trying to roll, let the horse rest, are correct. There's nothing wrong with letting them rest. We need to rest when we don't feel good, and so do animals

Psyllium is not bad to give horses. Same thing as metamucil. Just follow the directions if you do feed it.

Once again, glad to hear about your girl!

 

[Pine Acres Peeps]

I have a show horse that is bad about colic I have to keep him on Strategy because he never colics on that. Also, you can safely put a horse on metamucil everyday in their feed and it will keep them from colicing. I also wet mines food down with water when they are having problems and it helps alot also. Since I started the metamucil I have not had to deal with colic in almost 3 years.

 

[crazy huhn]

I was told by an Olympic Veterinarian that Psyllium only does its job if you feed approxm. 10 full tablespoons per day to a Warmblood horse, so that is about 5 times more than the label will tell you. You can do that for a week combined with wheat bran and 1/3 to 1/2 gallon of mineral oil to get sand out of the intestines.
No longer than a week, because this treatment will have impact on the absorption of important vitamins and minerals of the horses body. Do the manure/water bucket test as mentioned in another post to find out if sand has really caused the colic and not a totally different reason like worms or gas colic etc.

In my 30 + years of experience with horses on the highest Olympic levels it has always been helpful to have Banamine handy orally or IM. If ithe horse responds positiv to it, you can feed the above mentioned mineral oil/bran mixture. Add psyllium if you suspect a sand colic, it will not do any harm if used like mentioned above, however be Sherlock Holmes and find out the real reason why the horse is colicy.

Seems this sweet pony is on the right way and hopefully it will stay like this. Good luck to everyone dealing with a problem like this.

 

[buck-wild-chick]

She has pooped 4 or 5 times since 8:00pm and its now 1:48 ,so i know her bowls are moving ! yay

I gave her a flake of hay earlier.

 

[unionwirewoman]

So happy to hear that !!!!!

 

[farrier!]

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Bummer.....

So glad she is doing better and seems over her colic!
It sounds like a cribbing collar would be a wise investment.

 

[allison finch]

Cribbing and chewing wood are not the same vice. Some horses chew wood and do not crib (suck air). A collar would do nothing. You can paint the wood with a distastful coating. That may deter a wood chewer. If she is tearing up the wood because of cribbing, a collar or tooth ring will help. The tooth ring has had mixed results, in my experience.