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[RC] was endurance topics now cause of colic? - Tina Hicks

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, steph teeter wrote:
All three horses had reflux on arrival to the clinic, all three had
ileus - basically the gut shut down, little or no activity in the small
intestines. Their stomachs were full of fluid, but the hind gut was dry.

At BSF I rode for a while with a lady whose horse had had two colics just
like that in the past year. Both times she was riding moderately, not
doing anything different, etc...Horse had about a 1500 miles with her so
not beginners to the sport.

The vets at Auburn told her they see this particular sort of colic 
primarily in horses fed Bermuda hay - which is the predominant hay here in 
the SE. Apparently Bermuda is harder for horses to digest than other 
leafier/stemmier hays and can become impacted more easily in the small 
intestine.


Tina
tina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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