yeah definitely one of the most worrisome parts of owning horses you
feel so bad for and hey I'll so here's the deal I'm well it's one o'clock in
the morning it's ten degrees I made my pajamas and I'm hanging out in
a stall in the barn with Rosie I'm gonna tell you a little bit what happened to
Rosie today so a friend of mine is here I was giving lessons excuse me I was
giving lessons today and she says Rosie's laying down in the pasture and I
saw her roll so alright no problem that you know that happens horses lay down on
the horses roll but she kept doing it you know she wouldn't just randomly go
over and lay down and try to roll and so we put hay out in the pasture and she
did come up and made some hay so when I went out to check on her after my
lessons were done she was just eating hay and acting like like her normal self
so I get a message for my husband my daughter just threw up so I go in the
house and she's throwing up four times now tonight and I just got her off to
bed I feel safely that she's not going to
throw up anymore and my gut tells me you know I'm gonna go out and check on Rosie
and so I come out and check on her and sure enough she's way out in the field
and she's just standing there but then here's the deal so when I look at the
other horses I am go back and look at Rosie and she's laying down so Rosie is
clearly not feeling herself so I ran in the house right away and I got a dose of
Banamine for her I'm gonna sit out here with her until for one tell the Banamine
you if it kicks in that's great and I want
to see her poop colic is really scary and it can and it kind of anything can
bring it on so however long it takes I'm gonna sit out here and wait until she
poops I haven't checked for gut sounds yet that's that's next nice to see that
she was interested in a little bit of the grain that was on floor but she's
wanting lay down again so she's gonna try to lay down and I'll just encourage
her to get back up and if if she starts doing this too much where she's wanting
to lay down I'll take her up to the arena and go for a walk she clearly
doesn't feel quite right so I give big kudos to my friend Nikki for for
noticing that earlier that's really great that she notice that something
just wasn't right and let me know this is one of the scariest things that horse
owners have to deal with because there's really not a lot of answers as far as
colic is concerned like what could potentially cause it if this got to the
point where I didn't feel like I could keep her comfortable I would call the
vet I am taking every step needed to make sure that she's gonna be alright
but if she were dropping on the ground and thrashing my vet would have been
called a long time ago colic is something that has the most whole gray
area of anything to do with horses I think and as a horse community we need
to sort of all come together and help each other and I'm really thankful that
I've got so much support in my area as far as you know if I have questions
about things or if I need to talk to a vet time I'm only a phone call away and
that's really good feeling but so what I want
to know though is how many of you have dealt with colic in a horse before if
you have please comment below and share your experience you know what were the
science what what happened that could have led up to it
you know help educate us and we're that's what I'm doing on here is I'm I'm
here to try and help educate others just to share my experiences because we all
learn through experiences so if I can share my experiences with others I'm
hoping maybe that will somehow help someone in some way so you can all do
the same and help out by you know by listening that in the comments below
rosie is now like frantically vacuuming up every little piece of grain that she
could find on the floor so that is very good news very very good news I'm just
gonna wait and watch her and as soon as she poops she was gonna go back outside
because that's the that's the telltale usually they're that they're doing okay
and once things get moving in their system it's when everything stops that's
scary so okay it is 2:00 a.m. and I am so
ready to go in the house a little bit we're gonna see if Rosie pooped she has
not pooped okay we have peace oh that's good
no II just need poop okay now we are having some mega gut sounds I can hear
him from standing over here and I swear this Pony just burped you know people
say ponies our horses cannot burp I swear she just burped so I decided I
want to speed this process up a little bit so I'm gonna go ahead and tie Rosie
in the tack up area in my arena because 90% of the time when horse gets tied up
in here and they poop it's just what they do so I'll see how long that takes
I can still hear her belly rumbling so I know there's a lot of gut sounds going
on so that's really good now we just need some poop getting it involved
almost 2:30 still not poop bingo we have poop ok I'm super excited rosie
has pooped this is dirt cute little cute little hoof prints on the on the floor
the second I put her back in the pasture first thing she did was rolled and I
can't help but be stressed out about that but that's literally what she does
every time she's put back in the pasture whether she's ridden or not she she
rolls a lot so but the fact that I had her in she got Banamine she started to
eat I brought up to the arena she pooped she was very alert to acting like her
normal self towards the end and when I walked her back out to pasture she tried
it all the way from the arena back to the pasture so I feel like she's feeling
much better and I'm confident going in getting some sleep and I'll check on her
right away in the morning okay so what's the next day this morning I checked on
Rosie and she was doing fine she was eating just hanging out and now I just
came out to do some lessons and she's laying down again I'm gonna keep a real
close eye on her I'm probably just gonna give her another dose of anomie and just
to make sure and but I'm gonna be out the barn now for for quite a while so
I'm gonna bring her in with me and just keep a really close cause watch on her
because I'm a little concerned she doesn't lay down this much and she's
just clearly not feeling good I'm also gonna contact my vet and just you know
give her heads-up and and see if there's anything that she wants me to do in
addition to what I've already done so I just came out to get Rosie and now she's
hanging out and eating so I'm gonna leave her alone for a little bit I'm
gonna keep a close eye on her but I'm gonna just leave her and watch her and
see how she does well it's um 6 o'clock p.m. I brought her in put her in a stall
and I've been watching her since I've been at work and now I've got her and
just hanging out in the arena she's not trying to lay down or anything like that
I did message my vet and I'm wondering if I should hurt her poops a little on
the on the squishy side so I'm wondering if I should
give her more Banamine um I mean it's been hours since she's had it but she
wants to so she acts like she wants to lay down then she doesn't I can't say
that I've had this happen before where you know usually usually they just kind
of over it pretty quick and my my experienced ones that I've had I've seen
quite a few other horses have colic situations and then not um not do so
great but see she just wants to lay there well now she's gonna roll
poor little honey so this is one of the most worrisome parts of owning horses
there now she's looking at her belly
I'm gonna give Rosie a dose of Banamine I always give it orally the safest not
her favorite thing in the world probably doesn't taste very good so I'm gonna
wait and see how she's doing tonight I'm gonna leave her in the arena for the
night so I'm gonna just keep coming back and checking on her and I heard back
from the vet and she said it might be a mild impaction so to give her
electrolytes to make sure that she drinks so I'm gonna go ahead and get her
some electrolytes so we can get her drinking water and hopefully she'll be
feeling you know she's won that's really special so it's hard there's you know
when you have a whole herd of horses you have you have a few that are a little
bit more special than the others to be honest I mean I'm not gonna lie and
she's one that's just she's really special so she's my son's pony and she's
loved by a lot of people make sure that she's gets everything she needs rosie
has pooped a couple times in the last few hours and it's looking a little bit
kind of wet and of course clover has to be involved with everything so
it's 7 p.m. and Rosie seems to be feeling a little better from her
Banamine and I have her in a stall she's all set up with hay she's had
electrolytes and I have her buddy beer in here with her so they're gonna hang
out in this stall for a little while I'm gonna run in the house and eat some
dinner and come back go and check on them it's 11:00 p.m. and bear hates
being there stall but him and Rosie are good buddies and I know that they'll do
good in a stall together even though he's not exactly thrilled about it so
it's a poopy mess in there but at least um Rosie's with a friend
she looks like she's been upright the whole time doesn't look like she's been
laying down at all well I changed my mind and I put beer back outside and I
brought Daisy in because look at this stuff this has only been a couple of
hours bear is horrendously messy and installed
it's just gross so here's Daisy and Rosie all set up in their digs for the
night these two don't get along as well as Baron Rosie but they'll do just fine
so Rosie's stomach is still making all kinds of she's got all kinds of gut
sounds going on
well this is where I'm gonna leave Rosie and dizzy for the night
I think you know Rosie did just try to she did just lay down and tried to kind
of roll a little bit but she's eating now okay
stay tuned I'll keep you posted as to what happens in the morning