At our barn 2 nights ago a beautiful colt was born. He was having trouble pooping so they did 2 enemas… This afternoon he was taken to the clinic because he now has a bad case of diarrhea… How dangerous is it and how do they treat it?
Dehydration is always a concern but the clinic should be able to stay on top of that. Once I had a foal that presented with extreme diarrhea at 2 days old. Turned out she had an intussusception and had to have surgery to correct it at 3 days old. She had follow up surgery to stop internal bleeding from one of her internal sutures at 5 days old. She turned out to be a perfectly normal, VERY expensive horse. Mega jingles.
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Two on the farm developed diarrhea day two - three post birth - and some failure to latch on. With care, milking moms, DMSO, banamine - both thriving healthy colts! They did not have fevers and had great IGG levels so not sure a similar situation.
We are still wondering what the heck happened - but all is well!
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Your colt may still have a meconium impaction. They will usually have diarrhea to pass around the impaction. That said, I had foal born last Thursday who had yellow diarrhea, I took him to the hospital Friday. We all suspect he has Clostridia, so he is being treated for that (with Metronidazole) and with another broad spectrum anti biotic (Naxcel and Amikacin) in case it is something else (fecal culture results are not back yet). You did the right thing by taking him to the clinic. Foals are so fragile. Jingles for your little one.
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Had one th is yr. Great CBC and IgG, 4 hours later at 18 hr old, in the clinic for 8 days.
All is fine now, healthy and normal. There are some things that you can do if the foalis a bit older, like Bio-Sponge or probios, yogurt. But in a foal under a week old, the clinic is the bestplace for it.
Good luck for a speedy recovery!
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Your colt may still have a meconium impaction. [/QUOTE]
My thought too - had this happen a few years ago with a 2 day old. Good news, it can be quite easy to treat - we did it in the field with retention enemas. And he ended up just fine, a big, bold, handsome, healthy gelding!
They gave him 2 enemas the first day, I think that is why they took hi9m to the clinic… He is so adorable… Hope he makes it okay…Will let you know what we find out today…
I had a foal a couple of years ago that stumped all the vets. All the tests he had done at the farm came back ok but he was obviously not doing well. I spent $800 on diagnostics and was recommended to put him down or take him to New Bolton. We decided to give him 24 hours to see if the gastrogard or lactaid helped at all with the idea that we would put him down if he became too painful in the meantime. On his 7th day he passed meconium! The vets were shocked because he was pooping and didn’t seem anywhere painful enough for it to be an impaction. But it was.
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Just a reminder - commercial enema’s are caustic. Warm water works just as well. If you use the commercial baby enema’s only use ONE then switch to the warm water.
Clostridia is something that you have to be on top of right away. Symptons are yellow poop (not the first lighter poop after the foal has nursed), the foal may not be nursing (check the mares udder to make sure the foal is nursing). A foal can die in 48 hours from Clostridia so it’s something you can’t “wait and see” - they need the Metronidazole.
Over all the time we’ve been breeding we have seen that colts seem to more of an issue with impaction than fillies.
Up date: colt is holding his own, no fever, wbc better and he is nursing but now has a cough… So we wait. I think he is geting IV fluids so hopefully that will help too…
Thanks for all the jingles, he needs them…
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A simple wormer for mom when the foal is born or a day before will usually prevent scours.
Knock on wood , haven’t had one in several years.
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A simple wormer for mom when the foal is born or a day before will usually prevent scours.
Knock on wood , haven’t had one in several years.[/QUOTE]
I doubt if this is the type of scours that ivermectin would prevent, it happened too soon after birth in my opinion.
Praying & jingling from GA. Hope to hear good news soon.
