Yellow runny poop... ?

[Michael Apple]

If you're referring to my pictures, those items are from from one of peachicks that I sold a few months ago. It was raised in my house, so it didn't eat those here, lol.

-Kathy

I mean any yard with lots of junk laying around.

 

[casportpony]

FYI, I called the owner of the deceased and told him about the stuff I found and suggested that he pick up around his property, but I doubt he will.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I mean any yard with lots of junk laying around.

Stuff like that can easily kill a horse, so we're really anal about picking up trash here. You should see what a piece of baling twine can do inside a horse!

-Kathy

 

[mg15]

UPDATE: Jen didn't get much better and I became more concerned with her crop, which had been looking persistently too full since I first noticed her illness. After some help and great advice from @casportpony , I decided to take her back to the vet and an xray revealed 6-8 tiny pellets in her stomach and one in her crop. We think these may have been lead pellets that spilled from inside a sandbag used to weigh down photography light stands. Yes, lead.

Her weight was down from 4.3 to 4.2 (her normal is around 5 lbs) lbs but her [peak blood count???] was up slightly from 10% to 14% though still scarily low--they usually start transfusions at this level but Jen's activity is okay so they won't right now and hope that it continues to climb.

Treatment is for lead toxicity which the vet says makes sense in regard to all her symptoms. She'll get an injection BID for five days with a medicine (don't know what) that binds to the metal. I'm paraphrasing, and possibly poorly. She'll stay on the Metronidazol to keep intestinal inflammation down.

I'm going to keep her at the vet for the course of the medicine where she'll be hydrated, medicated and retested. It's going to cost a fortune but I don't know that we can give her the shots and it would give me so much peace of mind that she'll have good supervision.

@casportpony --I did end up giving her that pill by mouth - you would have been proud of me.

Thanks for all the help guys and if you like I'll keep you updated.

Lisa

Sure glad you got the diagnosis.

 

[Michael Apple]

Stuff like that can easily kill a horse, so we're really anal about picking up trash here. You should see what a piece of baling twine can do inside a horse!

-Kathy

I'm aware of that. Plastic bags are lethal to cattle. I removed a sock from a client's dog once. The poor dog was impacted until it was removed. The dog's behavior improved almost immediately after. Poor thing. Bits of hard plastic are particularly bad with chickens. It can block the crop and no amount of docusate sodium can dissolve it. The only way is to hopefully expel the contents out of the crop. Certain soils bought from landscaping supply yards have this problem with plastics in the soil. Best to get a good look at soils before allowing it to be loaded in your truck.

 

[casportpony]

How is she today?

-Kathy

 

[Zimparellis]

How is she today?

-Kathy

Thanks for asking. We visited her at the vet yesterday. Her comb looks slightly pinker but she isn't eating a lot and her crop won't move, although it may have felt a weeee bit smaller than the night before. The vet advised me against massaging it for fear of rupturing something--don't know what. We don't think the pellets are lead now because they are magnetic, but the blood test will hopefully reveal the problem -- I wish it would come back soon, they said it could be a couple of days!

Today we are also going to retest her (peak blood volume?) and hope we get a higher number, otherwise we are looking at transfusion, using one of her sisters to donate the blood to her.

I'll have another update by tonight.

 

[Zimparellis]

Just got a call from the vet tech:

Jen's PVC level rose again to 19% up from 14%. Behavior is same, crop is same, but if it's metal toxicity the medication she was put on would start to alleviate these symptoms in a couple of days from now.

 

[Zimparellis]

 

[casportpony]

Interesting...

-Kathy