My April 2010 colt, Cody, has been hospitalized with pneumonia. The vets are baffled because he’s gone downhill so fast (normal bloods friday night, disaster yesterdat morning). One lung has abcesses, the other is full of fluid, and there is fluid around his lungs as well.
They’ve never seen pleuropneumonia in a foal his age (6 weeks). We are waiting on cultures (probably tomorrow night od Wed morning) to see what bacteria it is, but for now he is on large spectrum antibiotics. They don’t feel that is it rhodococcus by what they’ve seen so far.
They cannot give me a prognosis, because they have no idea what is going on. Would love to hear any experiences. He is still nursing, eating hay, sampling mom’s grain.
Thanks!