[quote=“walktheline, post:20, topic:798887”]
You may be getting it mixed up with Epiploic foramen entrapment.[/quote]
Epiploic foramen entrapment is a type of displacement colic, so, no, I am not confused. The post above didn’t note what type of displacement colic was involved in this specific case. A cribber with “displacement” colic can quite reasonably be assumed to be a case of epiploic foramen entrapment if additional information isn’t supplied.
Nephrosplenic entrapment, which is what you specifically referred to, is not a catch all name for all colics involving displacement. It is a specific type of colic that involves the left colon. It is not definitively linked to cribbing. But my bad for not providing enough details on my horse’s health scare that happened 6 hours ago 
Signing off for the night…
I am ASSuming that the horse did not have colic issues before you bought him. So I would go to the prior owners/trainer and get an in depth detail of all his management. Down to exactly what hay he was eating, what grain, turnout schedules, work schedules, water consumption and try to get some ideas of what has changed. Maybe it is not just one thing, maybe it is a combination of things along with a change in environment that is pushing the horse over the edge. That might give you some ideas of how to manage his health more to his liking. And you just can’t say “Oh he was eating timothy hay” because hay is not the same due to maturity, region it comes from, etc.
And I believe that sometimes an impaction can cause enough backed up gasses that can cause a displacement if it is not caught early enough. But I will concede to the vets on this.
Wow. Not at all what I said or accurate.
I’m sorry I tried to help. Silly me. Best of luck with your horse.
Hi - you might search for my very, very long thread about my boy and our continuous cycle of colic. It may have nothing to do with yours but it may give you some ideas to consider. Or, PM me.
I’m quoting your post again where you referred to just “displacement” as Nephrosplenic entrapment, and mentioned that it is highly correlated to cribbing. Hence why I replied that it is NOT actually highly correlated to cribbing and perhaps you were getting it mixed up with epiploic foramen entrapment, which IS linked to cribbing.
This doesn’t make sense because Epiploic foramen entrapment was not the type of displacement colic you originally referred to. You mentioned Nephrosplenic entrapment, which is a different type of colic.
Thanks for your reply. Already done, the only real differences we could find were turnout (he gets a bit more now than he did previously), and his workload may have gotten slightly easier. He still works the same amount of days (5x week) but he was in a very militant program and I personally don’t jump my young horses quite as much as he was. He eats a different brand of feed, but it’s very similar to what he was eating before.
Will do, thank you
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