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Re: [RC] Old horse - impaction - Chris Paus

Oh man, Rae, I'm so sorry the owner doesn't recognize the seriousness of this and either have this old guy put down, or help him!
 
chris

At 08:16 AM 9/2/2006 Saturday, you wrote:

  One of my boarders is a 23 year old gelding.  Last weekend I noticed that he wasn?t that interested in his feed, so on Monday, I had the vet out, thinking he had bit his cheeks up again.  Turned out that he had a ?serious? impaction that was just out of reach of the vet to be able to manipulate.  She refluxed his stomach, then gave him water, electrolytes and laxative by tube.  My orders were to not feed him until he


 
Chris Paus
 


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Re: [RC] Old horse - impaction, Don Huston