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| Date: | 5/21/2013 11:29:10 PM |
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Hey, sorry I havent been on in a while. Last night was my worst nightmare. For the last couple of days a couple of people including me had noticed some of the horses werent eating. 2 horses colicked a couple days ago but now theyre fine, but then yesterday we got a call saying that none of the horses were eating at all, nothing. They thought that it may be fatal so they canceled all lessons. We got down there immediately & we completely disinfected the barn, scrubbed the waterers, completely dug out the stalls, sprayed & scrubbed. Ive never seen the barn so clean :) Then we cleaned out the hay & feed buckets. We found these little things called Blister Beetles. They have this toxin in them that when they are crushed its released & only 70 of these little bugs can kill a 1,000 pound horse & they live in smwarms of up to 3,000. The toxins cause sores wherever it touches & it can also cause diarreha, colic, red eyes, sores, extremely pale gums, etc. They also take away horses calcium, so we had a vet come down & every single horse except for 2 of them had signs of ingesting blister beetles. They all got IV's with calicium & then we waited. Several of the horses didnt respond well, & they had to get more IV's over & over again. Then they did Moose, & he started to sweat & sway & breathe heavy. I watched him & the vet said he was probably going to colic soon. I asked if I should walk him & he said that that was just an old wives tale & there would be too many people running back & forth to walk him up & down the aisles. Well, after 30 minutes of almost colicking, he just stopped. We thought he was fine so I groomed him, did some T-touch & then went to sweep out all the dust & dirt & stuff from the barn because everyone was stressed, so I kept myself busy & everyone felt better after they didnt have to step around horse manure when running to refill an IV, or sneeze because of all the dust. My mom took me away for a while & we went & got ice cream for everybody. Then when we got back, we had 2 vet trucks out there with several vet techs (nurses) there preparing more IVs. One of the techs was even sent to get more fluids from a store up in Forth Worth, which is really really far away. For a while everything was fine, we asked questions & watched the vets, they said that we wouldnt know if the horses were out of the woods for a few days & those that colicked couldnt be ridden or worked hard for a couple of months. Then Moose started freaking out because they were putting another IV drip on him so I had to go over there & calm him down. I called out his name & he whinnied for me! (he also did that when I first walked into the barn too!) then with eveybody watching, I started doing T-touch on him. Several of the girls watched in awe & asked me how in less than 5 minutes I got a horse that had broken the vets thumb (he wheeled & the vet didnt move so his arm hit the stall window & it shattered, or so he says, I think he just hurt it, but he wrapped it up & |
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