Re: [IceHorses] Seeking info re health issue of Icelandic gelding
Hi Connie...I'm sorry to hear that your sweet Bo is having health
issues. I have no answers for you...sending Bo lots of Reiki. Please
keep us updated. {{{HUGS}}}
Raven
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Re: [IceHorses] Seeking info re health issue of Icelandic gelding
i wish i could help you. I too have a horse with a mystery illness and it is so upsetting and frustrating. Makes you realize some vets really dont know any more than most of us. I have a vet group. One is an old country livestock vet. I bet he can sew an eyelid up in thirty seconds just neat as a pin. I watched him do a cow caesarian, it was awesome. But he almost killed me telling me to rinse and clear out my horse's mouth several times a day when he was foaming at the mouth and it turned out to be rabies. I had many small cuts on my hands and arms from picking berries and was very exposed to saliva that way. i never trust any professional, i guess its the old hippie "question authority" in me. One of my vets is young and savvy and adventurous, likes a challenge, he is my favorite vet. One is so new I feel like half the time I am telling HER what to do. one of my horses got into the chicken feed one time and ate a 25 pound bag. its 15% protein. I ran him to the vet and she was the only one who could meet me. She kept hemming and hawwing and I said "arent you gonna pump his stomach" and she said "actually they don't suggest we do that so quckly anymore, and besides I think it is probably too late." Then she said he was definitely foundering, had a high pulse and heat in one foot. I said "do me a favor and just pump his stomach will you?" and she did and I bet she pumped out about 20 lbs of green solid feed material. I feel like I saved him, not her. I dont mean to get off on all this, my point is vets can be as helpless as we are. If I were you I would google things, contact people, etc. AT least my vet is receptive to trying my suggestions. I wonder if your horse could have strangles. I know of horses that had founder symptoms from strangles. Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
Re: [IceHorses] Seeking info re health issue of Icelandic gelding
>>Last week, I noticed that Bo, my 5-year-old Icelandic gelding (who has been an undisputedly easy keeper since I've owned him for the past 4-1/2 years), was lame in his front feet and had two swollen nodules under his jaw and his nose was swollen. Ohmigosh! I hope they can figure out what is wrong. Can you send some pictures? Judy http://iceryder.net http://clickryder.com
RE: [IceHorses] Seeking info re health issue of Icelandic gelding
>>the vet said Bo has > an infection in his muscular system. Results of the >>blood testing > showed a very high white cell count. Please note that we >>couldn't see > any bites/cuts/wounds on Bo. The vet prescribed an antibiotic >>> (Tucoprin) and bute for the pain. Connie, don't wait until you finish all the medicine to get some professional help, I live in the east and I have New Bolten above me and Leesburg west of me, and anytime I am dealing with an unknown, it is financially and supportively more important to get that horse to a center with immunologists and hemotologists available to colaborate on what is wrong and the best way to treat the horse. I have had horses that board at my place that had allergies that progressed into heaves or horse COPD and another that lost vision in an eye over the coarse of a month, that were treated at my barn my limited resources and these things might not have progressed to those levels had I insisted on going to a medical center to assess the animal with specialists, especially in one as yourg as yours. Get a team of equine vets to evaluate the horse and take all of the info you already have, blood work and xrays with you, they will speed up your delivery of care. And most importantly, good luck to you. Jeannette
