Post by Becky on May 25, 2008 20:49:02 GMT -5
So today was round two of spring shots. (there are so many vaccines to do that our vet breaks them up into to visits so boosters can be done and so that none of the horses have too many at once.)
Dixie got one shot, strangles, and her coggins. She seemed fine, and I rode her a little bit (bareback) to make sure she got moving and so she wouldn't be so stiff, not hard enough to break a sweat, even though it was hot.
Anyway, by the time I'm ready to let her back out in her field, she's had a soft stool, but not quite soft enough to panic over, and she's on the borderline between calm and lethargic. I let her go, and she looks like she's gonna roll, but instead just lies down and stays there. She didn't get up until I put her halter back on. She went from calmer than average, but still within her normal range to not wanting to move or eat or hold her head up in the space of half an hour.
So I called the vet, and after a shot of anit-histamine, a shot of banamine, a stomped foot (because the banamine and the antihistamine made her go nuts), lots of walking, and a bag of IV fluids and more walking, Dixie is back in her stall munching on soaked hay and wanting to go back outside.
So she had an allergic reaction, coupled with not sweating enough and being horribly overweight. I knew she was fat, i didn't think it would contribute to what is Dixie's only emergency vet visit in all the time I've had her. And now I have to make her loose weight without getting over heated.
And I am very proud of myself for not panicking or getting upset.
Dixie got one shot, strangles, and her coggins. She seemed fine, and I rode her a little bit (bareback) to make sure she got moving and so she wouldn't be so stiff, not hard enough to break a sweat, even though it was hot.
Anyway, by the time I'm ready to let her back out in her field, she's had a soft stool, but not quite soft enough to panic over, and she's on the borderline between calm and lethargic. I let her go, and she looks like she's gonna roll, but instead just lies down and stays there. She didn't get up until I put her halter back on. She went from calmer than average, but still within her normal range to not wanting to move or eat or hold her head up in the space of half an hour.
So I called the vet, and after a shot of anit-histamine, a shot of banamine, a stomped foot (because the banamine and the antihistamine made her go nuts), lots of walking, and a bag of IV fluids and more walking, Dixie is back in her stall munching on soaked hay and wanting to go back outside.
So she had an allergic reaction, coupled with not sweating enough and being horribly overweight. I knew she was fat, i didn't think it would contribute to what is Dixie's only emergency vet visit in all the time I've had her. And now I have to make her loose weight without getting over heated.
And I am very proud of myself for not panicking or getting upset.
