This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---Dave McWethy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This message is from: "Dave McWethy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Glad whoever wrote about tying up reminded me. I had a conversation with > some endurance folks this weekend about tying up. I realized that I have > never heard of an incident of a Fjord tying up. Has anyone had any direct > experience of tie up with a Fjord? Dave, We had an experience last spring with one of our three-year-old geldings that the vet thought was a case of tying up. So he ran the tests - urine, blood, etc. - and came up with a blank. Ditto on colic. So the vet decided the horse must have an infection of some sort and put him on penicillin. I was not impressed. The horse's symptoms came on after a rather strenuous/stressful workout at a training clinic. First he seemed shaky in the rearend, so I thought he was just tired from the stress and work, plus standing in the trailer on the way home. We put him in a bedded box stall for the night and the next morning he would not get up, eat, drink, etc. So the testing, experimenting started. I finally got fed up by the next day and mixed him some electrolites in tepid water, which he drank immediately (maybe it was the sweetness he wanted, I don't know). An hour later I gave him another bucket of the stuff, and by then he was eating. The next day he was fine, though a little "grumpy". We now suspect he has EPSM and have started him on the high fat/low carb. diet. He has put on weight, his attitude is much more relaxed, and he seems better coordinated than he was before. We'll see how he does when the real work starts this summer. So I'm not sure that our experience qualifies as "tying up". Mary, in dreary Washington == Mary Thurman Raintree Farms [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
