I feel like in the last few months there was a thread about a horse repetitively parking out on the way to the ring but not urinating. Does anyone else remember any details that would help with the search feature? Or even better, does anyone remember who started the thread?
Don’t remember that thread but the first thing I would do is go digging for a bean. I’ve seen this behavior twice and both times the geldings had big beans that made it difficult for them to urinate.
I’d go for the bean first, if that didn’t help, I’d get the vet out…could be anything from ulcers to a blockage.
GraceLikeRain, I wonder if you’re remembering the thread with “posture peeing” in the title- I remember not having heard the words used together in this way before. Dungrulla may have started it.
And I third a thorough sheath cleaning and enlisting the vet for other reasons if the horse is parking out but you are concerned he is not urinating.
I seem to remember it too, searched and bumped a thread for you in ‘horse care’. I don’t think it is the same one, but maybe it will help.
My gelding started doing this about a month before being diagnosed with peritonitis.
Last fall, my gelding was doing this randomly after I’d put him up in his stall after a ride. It happened on and off for a couple of weeks each episode would last a few minutes then he’d snap out of it and return to normal. Then one day he choked on his wetted-but-not-liquid mush and had an emergency vet call. We brought him in to the clinic to scope - absolutely nothing was found in his esophagus or stomach. He was totally clear and healthy - no ulcers or scar tissue in sight.
He’s now on a liquid-mush diet for life, in addition to his hay, and fresh grass. No more pellets. He’s not done the weird pee-stance thing since. I have no idea if it was related but it definitely seemed to be a pain thing mimicking colic. I know it wasn’t sheath related because he had just recently had his sheath cleaned. And, the behavior disappeared after the choke was cleared up.
One other symptom in his case: his water smelled like rotten fish/food a few days prior to the emergency call. It was gross. My barn owner was convinced it was one of his joint supplements, but his water never stunk. Once the episode was cleared up his water never smelled again. So the poor guy probably had an issue for days and we never knew until it was a full on emergency situation.
Definitely a learning experience all the way around.
http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?476060-Choke-Scope-Questions
Parking out can also be an indicator of laminitis or colic
Thanks for helping me find the thread! I read darn near every thread in horse care and remembered just enough about that one to know it had something about parking, not peeing, and then nothing else LOL.
I was at a friends farm two years ago and saw a horse in a field in the distance park out several times but not pee. I alerted the BO and it turned out he was colicing.
