Idk, she acted like she did not want to have her halter put on, which is a first. He had an enclosed work trailer on his truck so maybe she saw that n her mind went “oh hell no!”?
@Fiesta01 she must have heard us pondering, out here with her now n she is back to almost solid apples for now! 
Great news! Hope it’s continuing.
The loose stool may have just been a combo of her buddy being removed from his normal place plus the “busy” of the farrier visit. Even healthy horses can turn on the separation anxiety splats at the drop of a hat
Maybe? Except he got trimmed right outside his stall, where he always is and she can put her head over n talk to him like they always do. Idk just have to see if it happens again. The next big thing is her tooth getting pulled this friday…eeek!!
I do not think the horse really has to have a logical reason to nervous wet manure.
Yes some horses are just nervous or get nervous when something different is happening.
And they know it’s different no matter how “normal” you keep things
Well that is just illogical! I expect that mare to have an entire report on it by the time I get home, with a thesis statement!!! Lololol. Just kidding I am slap happy today and have been dealing with my daughters school… 
she has had regular manure pretty much since that last episode though.
Oh and photo update, this was her at lunch, don’t mind the poop, it was picked up before I went back to work
We don’t mind the poop, especially since it looks like a goodly amount of well-formed, healthy poop. (We are, after all, horsepeople.)
Her coat is starting to look healthier.
Thanks! She is due for another medicated bath, she still is all flaky and has some rainrot leftover that needs to heal. Her winter coat is actually coming in, thin but what has come in has a little big of curl to it! 
She looks slightly fluffier and glossier if that makes sense.
She is looking great! So much better!
It warms my heart to head off to bed after seeing her picture and the update. She is looking so much better and just knowing she KNOWS someone cares about her and is doing what they can to get her back to her old self - I take a deep sigh. There is good news in this world and you are one of those stories. 
And you just made my morning as I’m sitting out here trying to wake up while my daughter gets dressed and then takes her needed 15 minute nap before finishing getting ready for school!! I was literally just sitting here thinking to myself oh my God I have to take care of seven other mammals before myself every freaking morning and every freaking evening why do I do all this???
Yuu just reminded me because it is needed in this world, and it is nice to feel needed
I put her out for about 30 min yesterday at lunch in the field. Even with the previcox her back left, the one she cocks the stifle out on when she is standing still, she just drags the toe and her back fetlocks snap when she walks though. Not a snapping noise, but like if you were moving your wrist to make your hand go from pointing up to pointing at the ground, but in quick motion vs a normal rate fluid motion if that makes sense?
Idk how she will do thru the winter. I was thinking about either polo wrapping her or putting some sort of support boot on her while she is out of her lot to see if it helps?
Good news! So the tooth is out!!! There was barely any root and I just have to rinse it once a day. She’s actually out Grazing In The Big Field from here on out during the day!!
Now for the bad news… where she is still breathing really heavy the vet was looking at her and notice fluid build up at the base of her chest basically around her heart. Per @TBKite suggestion we tried taking the blood from the jugular and watching how it refills. It does not backfill on the left but it does on the right. Short of doing a cardiogram or something equally as expensive we just have to guess for right now. She is going to talk to the vet that she works with as well and they are going to try to brainstorm if there’s anything that we can try for her that is not going to cost me a ton of more money at this point.
So the fluid buildup combined with her back leg swelling in the joint issues that she has we decided we’re just going to let her be turned out. She can go in the big field, her lot, or her stall as she pleases during the day. At night she is going to be in her stall or her lot, whichever she pleases out of those two. Of course she will still be on her normal feeding routine and alf hay as she wants.
We are just going to let her live out her life the best she can until she tells us she is done.
There may be medication options to reduce the fluid buildup in her lungs. Otherwise you’ve given her a home that will keep her comfortable as long as it can and recognize when it can’t, and that’s the best anyone can do.
That sounds like the best plan possible.
Could that be fluid and pressure around her heart and lungs caused by the tooth infection? Can they pull the fluid off with a long needle? Or is that the arm and leg cost?
Do horses get endocarditis? It happened to a coworker once.
Not infected it was just loose due to her old age it is definitely her heart
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