------------------------------------------------------- --- * Origin: WNYBBS FidoNet<->InterNet E-Mail Gateway (1:2613/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F5W00000 Date: 05/16/98 From: MEG ALFONI Time: 02:17pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Sick Horse From: Meg Alfoni Subject: Re: Sick Horse Bob Kohl wrote: > Well, good to see you back!!! And to see that Kohl's advice colum is as accurate as ever!What's new? How's Tush and CJ? Meg ------------------------------------------------------- FidoNet EQUUS Conference<->InterNet EMail List To subscribe to the list, send an EMail message to: listserv@wnybbs.net With the words: SUBSCRIBE EQUUS To Unsubscribe: UNSUBSCRIBE EQUUS To post a message to the list, send E-Mail to: equus@wnybbs.net ------------------------------------------------------- --- * Origin: WNYBBS FidoNet<->InterNet E-Mail Gateway (1:2613/10) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F5W00001 Date: 05/15/98 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 06:21am \/To: DAVE BURKE (Read 1 times) Subj: Sick Horse > My horse has a cough that won't go away. His left > nostril runs, his nose > sounds stuffed up, his breathing is labored at rest. He has > no fever, eats > good, weight is a little low but good. His energy level > fluctuates. We are in > Western WA. Sounds like an allgergy to me....... I've got one here in my barn that's allergic to dust (and it's been MURDER this year with El Nino's stuff igh>). > This is Very frustrating. I have taken him to 3 Vets and > the Tacoma Equine > Hosptal. They all seem to think it might be allergy/Heaves > and have treated him > with Sulfa ,antihistimenes and Steroids. It helps a little, > but he goes right > back after treatment. I have changed his feed between grass > hay,timothy,and > alfalfa. They have low dust,no mold and we have tried > wetting it down. I have > put him in different fields, locked him in and out of the > stable,and changed > the bedding type. Whatever he's allergic to is probably air borne -- a lot of people or suffering with allergys this year and I suppose horeses are no different. It's been a bad year here too with Shamazon who seems to have allergy attacks just like I do from day to day. > If anyone has any suggestions, please write. I am > running out of ideas and money. Wish I could give you a solution. You've done everything that I've done -- low dust hay and feed .... changing bedding etc. Hopefully as the rainy season comes the situation will get better ....... good luck. Sorry I couldn't help more -- all I can do is give you some support as I know what you are going through. --- * Origin: Jean's Trick Horses (Or is that TRICKY??) (1:371/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F5W00002 Date: 05/15/98 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 06:22am \/To: MIKE MAY (Read 1 times) Subj: Moderator >-> If we talk about him do you thinnk he'll turn up > Not sure. Ok ..... here goes ...... NA NA NA NA NA NA .... Mr Moderator -- are you HERE????????? (think that'll wake him up???) --- * Origin: Home is Where the HORSES Are!!! (1:371/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F5W00003 Date: 05/15/98 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 06:23am \/To: JOHN ROOKER (Read 1 times) Subj: Sick Horse > Back on topic.. Has any of the vets taken a culture of the > nasal discharge? Or > taken a sample and examined it under a microscope? I > wonder if you horse has > an infection going on up there that he just can't kick. That could be too ..... but if the nasal discharge is clear then it's ore than likey allergys .... --- * Origin: Home is Where the HORSES Are!!! (1:371/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F5W00004 Date: 05/15/98 From: JAN MURPHY Time: 12:01am \/To: DAVE BURKE (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Sick Horse Hi, Dave -- I've been following your messages about your sick horse. Like some of the others here, I'm curious about the fact that his nose is running and whatnot only on the one side. This is just a wild guess, but I wonder if some foreign body has gotten trapped in his nostril and is obstructing/irritating his nasal passage. Or if he has some sort of abcess, maybe this would account for the discharge. I'm also wondering if you might not have two completely separate problems going here, neither of which have been diagnosed because they only usually present a subset of the symptoms your horse is showing. Also, I read an article a while ago about how some treatments for respiratory treatments like asthma (in humans) can set people up for problems with parasites, which produce asthma-like symptoms, and round and round they go. If I remember right, the long-term use of steroids mucks about with the immune system and makes a dandy enviroment for worms to take over. Could this be some sort of parasite-related thing? I'm sorry to post such a bozo-like set of speculations, but if you can rule out the ordinary causes of symptoms like this, then maybe something else is going on. Overall, the cough and one-sided discharge plus labored breathing really puts me in mind of other cases I've read about where an animal has something (usually a food particle) physically obstructing the airway. But I wouldn't expect that to go on for as long as you've said, so that would point to something else like a tumor or persistent infection or some kind of abcess. I think you said he wasn't running a fever, but if he had a chronic low-grade infection, it might not be enough to trigger the kind of defense mechanism. Whatever it is, I hope you can find out the cause and you have a good outcome. Good luck. --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: Sci-Fido II, World's Oldest SF BBS, Berkeley, CA (1:161/84.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F5W00005 Date: 05/12/98 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 05:53am \/To: MIKE MAY (Read 1 times) Subj: Results > Well if your ever going to be up in the Spring Hill area I > could make some > arrangements for you to see some I am pretty sure. Just > looked at the mapo > and Spring Hill is North of Clearwater by probably 60 - 100 > miles or so. > Quite a haul from you. Maybe we can just take a "ride" up that direction sometime and take a looky-see . > graduating from RIT later this month. >> >> I'm sure it won't be long before she has a fabulous job. Gosh Mike ... >>she's really graduating?? I remember when she was in high school and when > she >>went off to college .... makes ya' feel like you're getting a little old (bu > t >>only a LITTLE old ). > I hope so. She has a lot of bills to pay now. She is > going to take a > little time looking for the right one. She'll find the right thing ..... I wish her all the best!!!! --- * Origin: Southern DOS, Ya'll Recken (Yep/Nope) (1:371/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 243 HORSES Ref: F5W00006 Date: 05/13/98 From: JEAN PROPHET Time: 08:15pm \/To: MEG ALFONI (Read 1 times) Subj: JIM ..... I've decided that I need to change BIG JIM's name to GENTLEMAN JIM ...... he's sooooooo nice he reminds me of a true Southern Gentleman. He's o careful that he watches where he puts his feet ..... I think if one of us ver gets stepped on it'll be our fault . Speaking of GENTLEMAN JIM -- I RODE him last Sunday. He was really good!! Of course I had to "plow rein" him ..... AND, Buddy stood a 5 gallon bucket upside down for me to stand on to mount him ....... AND, when I got through riding him I KNEW I had been on a HUGE animal .... my thighs ached and I got charlie horse in my left hip ..... BUT, other than that, it was a pleasant ride down the street (first and last time I probably do it though -- mostly for the last reason I gave ). I put my big Circle Y saddle on him (the one I bought to ride Daisy and "Baby") ...... I found a Large girth that I had once used on "Baby" (at one time "Baby" topped the scales at a little over 1300 lbs) ...... And I used JIM's old harness bridle and a pair of reins that I had used on "Baby". Buddy took some pics so if they turn out I'll send you one. Like I said before -- it was "interesting" --- * Origin: A Woman's Place is ON a Horse! (1:371/33)