Vet just textes n wanted me to bring her in to do a hb count. 51/min the first time. 57/min the second time, if I am counting correctly. Putting her back out now to get my daughter to bed. Then back out here to check on her. So far 2 poops n a pee since about 730.
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All my fingers and toes are crossed for you both.
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Thanks the vet and I are talking going to give her literally maybe 10 pellets of her senior in a bucket of warm water with Gatorade in it try to get some more liquid in her
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Lol, I like your style. Momma DESERVES a cocktail!
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Just looked at the lab email it was strongyles.
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Hoping for the best. You are a good egg for taking her on. 
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So we have another poop and a pee, she ate a handful of senior with gatorade rehydrate, lifewater and regular blue gatorade and she just finished the entire bucket, pooped and peed 2x and vet says I can sleep for the night. 
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Good news to hear! I hope you both get some good rest.
Sheās been reminding me of Ginger in Black Beauty.. I used to have a friend who wanted to write a story giving her a long and happy retirement.
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Omg ginger that mare was something else!
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Stayed up with her till 1, yes I am paranoid lol. She pooped 2 more times before 1am, peed. And this morning she had pooped 3x. Still breathing heavier. And she ate all her water, gatorade and a scant handful of senior mix last night. Does not look like she has drank any of her water though. Iām going to give her another feed and lots of water mix and fill up three different buckets and leave them out for her and see what she does by lunch.
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My thoughts (not a vet or even close to being a vet) are that she prefers to be outside and being inside is some what stressful to her. After being outside yesterday, when she came back inside, the loud rain, and just the general change in her life caused her some stress which caused her to not act quite right.
She is going thru a lot right now, both physically and mentally.
Let yourself breath a little, you are doing all the right stuff for her.
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I agree with all of that but when my daughter and I went out there last night to see her it was not raining yet and normally sheās already nickering for hay and she did not want any part of it and just seemed very blah.
It stopped raining last night around 4:00 so I would think that her heart rate would be back down but sheās still breathing heavy but she is going to the bathroom so thank God for that.
I wet her hay this morning and I only gave her half of her feed and it is covered by at least a good 5 in of warm water and a bottle of gatorade lol. The feed is completely soaked so itās basically disintegrated. She started chowing down on it and then I went inside got my daughter ready for school and then came back out with two new buckets of water for her and she still was slurping it down. Full disclosure, I added a capful of vegetable oil in it. If something is stuck hopefully it will help it move along, and maybe help keep her gut moving?
When the vet looked at her last Monday she did mention that her jugular vein was very pronounced, more like sticking out even for a skinny horse so she was wondering if she had any heart issues,which is more than half of the reason why Iām paranoid. Sheās not coughing or showing any signs of CHF, or choke, but still.
A friend of mine had a horse start running around her huge field, she ran out there to get him, and he dropped dead right there of a heart attack, that memory is in the back of my mind too.
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Preach it!
Our area was used in some of the resistance studies a few decades ago, some farms had up to a 90% resistance level to the earlier generation of wormers and thereās already documented resistance to ivermectin in some gulf areasā¦ And there is NOTHING in the pipeline for new dewormers. NOTHING. Moxidectin is it.
For those of us who remember the old days before ivermectin, trust me you donāt want to go back to an era where horses canāt get effective dewormers. Please, please, please follow the new guidelines for all our sakes!
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When my horse had EHV and we were trying to hydrate him and he wasnāt interested in much of anything, I soaked about five long cubes of alfalfa cubes in 5 gallons if warm water, making it basically a tea.
He would suck that right down.
I think it may take more oil than that, unless your cap is bigger than ones Iām familiar with.
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Vegetable oil simply digests, so at this point it is only calories. It does not provide lubricant.
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Thatās kinda what I am doing with her senior and alfalfa pellets, soak with hot water till completely broken down, then add even more water until its just soup, and the gatorade because hey, why not? She is still peeing and pooping really well though. I mean her poop has finallyā¦finallyā¦turned to regular horse apple poop and she is going about once an hour. No straining to go, itās not hard, nice n shiny n moist. (ughhh I hate that word haha)
I didnāt want to give her too much oil since my main concern was getting her to eat/slurp the āsoupā and she is having good output so far. Youāre right it was a tiny cap, she just got over having the runs so it was more of a test n see what happens without overwhelming her gut type idea. When I left for work I pulled her sheetās hood back so she doesnāt get too warm but can lay down without the cold wet ground touching her hair. She was back to her āgimme gimme gimme bucket of soup mommy nowwwā self.
Her breathing is still heavier than normal. I canāt āhearā her breathing, thereās no wheezing, no cough, no phlegmish noises. I canāt even hear her breathing hard like if a horse was working hard or snorting type deal, its a quiet deep/heavy breathing. The only two things Iām thinking is if the worm load is passing through her and it hurts, but not enough to present as a true colic episode, or itās her heart working overtime.
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Well hellā¦ I was thinking more as it went down her throat, I know it was slippery and greasy when it got on my fingers last night from the cap.
It is good calories for her so I would not call it a bad thing. If she is willing to eat it, it will help her gain weight.
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Very true, going to recheck breathing/pulse/temp at lunch here in a few hours. If she is still doing ok as far as food in, solids out, Iām going to give her another āsoupā of the second half of her morning feed that I withheld this morning.
Oh Vet just said the soonest we can get the tooth extracted is Nov 4th @11, so thatās the plan for now.
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