What is Stocking Up?

[LLStar117]

Gosh, things were going so good too. I have a vet on the way, but earliest they can come is 4:30 this evening, unless the vet can juggle some appointments. Lets hope! This is scary?

Heres the situation.

Horses Arrive Sunday at 2:30 pm

Bonnie rides in trailer 1000 miles. They made a lot of stops along the way, they stopped for 5 hours in north AL to sleep.

Horses were offered water at every stop, but did not drink that much. About 5 gal between the 2.

Soon as I unloaded Bonnie off the trailer, she went down, started to roll. lay there. We thought she was itchy, going from -6 to 65 degrees. She drank a bunch of water too.

Monday she is laying down most of the time. I tried to get a Bute in her in the morning and she kept spitting it out at me. I tried tricks but without my suringe I couldn't get it down.

I had to be at the store at 9am to open so had to leave her. Luke went back out about 1pm to get something and said she was still down. He tried to give her bute no luck.

Luke sent me back out there at 230pm. I finally got 2 pills of Bute down her throat. I got the carrot stick and made her get up and kept her moving.

She'd walk for a few min and her back legs just buckle and she'd go down. I thought COLIC. I called my mom and had her go to a vet and get me some banamine paste. While my mom was on her way with the banamine I kept the mare walking, or atleast standing. Finally she pooped, but it was half a normal pile.

Still has good gut sounds.

As I watch her more, her back legs seem to be stiff, they shake right before she calapses.

There is no heat in her feet or legs that I can tell thru her thick fur. She is not sweaty.

When I take her to the water tank she dunks her head up the eye balls and flips her head out and walks away.

She is not eating. This morning she nibbled a little bit of hay as she was laying down but Molly came over and ate her hay for her, grr.

Please pray for her, we can't lose her. She is the center of our world.

I gave her 2 bute and another dose of banamine this morning. I've never seen her this bad, and its so scary!

[bubba1990]

could it be a drawn out HYPP episode?

[amandaandtuff]

Stocking up is when the legs swell, I don't think it would cause this.

[LLStar117]

I have no idea about Hypp. Mare is grade norwegian fjord cross. I don't know enough about that to know if this is that.

Her legs do not appear swollen, but they are tight, even when she is laying down and relaxed, they are tight. I was messaging her some too when she was laying down calmly she'd let me rub them good.

[amandaandtuff]

Is it possible she's typing up? Try a google search, but it seems like it can happen for many reasons or no reason at all.

www.horsetalk.co.nz/health/tha-tyingup.shtml

www.recoveryeq.com/muscle_tension_horses.htm

[LLStar117]

that makes more sense. I was trying to think of the right term. Thats probably what is happening, stress from the trailering. I'm going to get some liniment and put on her next time I get a chance to head out there to check on her.

[amandaandtuff]

Is there a chance of getting a vet out?

[jmk]

If she is tying up you need a vet out there ASAP!!!!!!!!!Please keep us updated.Did she drink on the trip down?She may need IV fluids.
Appy Trails
Jan

[pinkhorselady]

Hopefully Bonnie will be OK until the vet comes at 4:30. Saying a prayer for her & you!

[amandaandtuff]

If she is tying up you need to not move her, read the two links I posted.

[bubba1990]

if she has QH in her and goes back to impressive it may be HYPP, which is a genetic muscule disorder, they have episodes that can be just muscule twitching to sesuires and can last minutes to hours. When a horse isn't having an episode they act as if nothing was wrong

[Lonestarchickypoo]

LL get some dark Karo suryup down her immeidately if you dont know her aqha background it wont hurt her one bit wether you give it to her or not.... about two cup fulls should work if its a hypp attack I have never seen a hypp attack with swollen legs but that doesnt mean it cant happen..
( vet is the one that told me give the horse two cup fulls during an episode bc he said it wouldnt hurt the horse giving to much)
I also had a horse that tyed up all the time... get some electrolites in her quick.... her hind quarters will be very sensative to touch she will sweat and quiver in her hind end... anything with electrolites like gateroade anything til you can get a vet out there...getting the fluids will help, the vet pulled a cbc on my horse and found he was low in selinum keeping their selinum up will help also I used to have him get shots twice a year for that and vitamin b his attacks slowed with a better diet and making sure his levels were fine.. never showed anything in the winter just in the summer...

[Lonestarchickypoo]

some tack places carry and additive thats apple flavored electrolites I used to put that in his water and it helped a whole lot made them less frequent and also took him off of grain and put him on pelleted feed, he could have grain but in smaller amounts helped a whole bunch..

[amandaandtuff]

I always feed my horses electrolites, it's in their grain and water at shows.

Hoping that this is all figured out.

[LLStar117]

Well I took a suggestion and I got some liniment and went out there about 1pm rubbed down her back legs, got the 2nd one almost done and when I started massaging her cannon and ankle, she jerked her leg away. She tried to lay down and I told her NO, so she torotted away. She got away from me and layed down.

I then just finished rubbing the leg with her down. She had it sticking straight out. I was very careful to not get my head in the way. I then did a few easy stretches with the leg, when I was done I put it back where seh had it and she held it there in the air for about 15 min before she even set it down on the ground.

As I was leaving, I drove down the road the wrong way to show my mom the property and as I passed back by she was standing up.

Vet is still coming at 4:30 central time. I will let you know what the vet says tonite if I get back to the store tonite before 6. If not then I will update tmr morning.