Whats the best way to treat your horse when it gets colic?

Question

In the later stages of colic, when its more serios. Any medicines, suggestions, magic formulas?

Answer 1

The best way to treat any colic is to take your horse to the vet. And before it gets to the later, life threatening stages

Answer 2

Banamine and walking can help in easy cases, what I think you mean by early stages. Basically it is just an upset stomach.
If it is a serious colic-"later stages"- impaction, twisted stomach, or the symptoms persist after walking for an hour, depending on when you catch it, you need to call the vet ASAP.
Some treatments: they will try to flush the system with mineral oil (as a laxative) or there is something else that starts with a D and smells like garlic. No magic formulas.

Answer 3

First, do NOT let your horse roll, keep it walking. You absolutely must call a vet in the case of colic which can easily turn fatal. If the horse rolls over, it could twist its intestines which a vet would then have to try to fix in a super-expensive ($10,000) surgery. However, my instructor did have a horse which had twisted its intestines. The vet said it could either be put down or let loose in an arena to solve on its own. Miraculously, the horse rolled, somehow untwisting its , and intestine was fine...That was probably a pure miracle though. Definitely consult a vet ASAP, there's no substitute for a vet.

Answer 4

You need a vet to determine what kind of colic it is and if the horse's intestines are blocked or impacted, twisted or just irritated and the horse has gas. You can make your horse comfortable by letting it stretch to relieve pressure and walking the horse may loosen up the gut to relieve pain. Do not let your horse bite at its gut, roll or kick at its gut as it may twist its intestines. If you have bannimine paste, give it to your horse to relieve pain and do not let your horse eat or drink until the vet says it is okay to do so. If you hear gut noises that is a good sigh but if the stomach is quiet then there is no progress and the vet has to come out. Good Luck.

Answer 5

If he is in later stages he will go into gastric torsion, the stomach flips over shutting off the escape of gas completely and the stomach will then rupture and he will hemorrhage, go into shock and die! I can't stress enough YOU NEED A VET IMMEDIATELY!. Colic is not to be ignored!!! If he is down now you have to get him up on his feet, put a twitch on his upper lip to keep him still and if you don't have a stomach tube then reach in his mouth and hold onto his tongue and pour a pint of mineral oil down his throat, that's dangerous, pneumonia is a risk, but if your out somewhere and can't get help you have to do with what you have on hand.For emergency use you should have a 1 inch tube, measure from nostrils to first rib and feed the tube through his nose very gently, go slowly, listen for stomach sounds, you don't want to be in the lung!! [This should not be done by anyone who has no experience, but sometimes your alone!] and pour the mineral oil through the funnel into the tube. Then just walk him for hours, don't let him get down and roll, that's when torsion can occur. Hopefully the oil will move the blockage out of the gut. Feed bran mash at least once a week to keep his bowels clear of sand, don't feed hay on the ground where they pick up sand and it adds up and causes colic.Good Luck! Please get a Vet!!!

Answer 6

You should call the vet asap. But for now try to keep him moving. I was once working at a stable that had a horse who had some signs of colic and I had to take him out and keep him trotting. And he cleared up later that day,

Answer 7

i've got had horses for years. at present I shield a mare it extremely is 29 and suffers colic which has boost into impactions usually. between the Vet and myself, we supply her bran mash mixed with mineral oil and heat water the different day. we are interior the Lake Sunapee are of NH. This has decreased this undertaking extremely properly. My Vet makes it possible for me to have Banamine paste obtainable and that i supply a nil.5 dose if she the minute she would not want to consume. via the way she has a unfastened feed salt block and heated water. now and lower back they do merely no longer drink sufficient. The Vet calls her my "honest climate horse". stable success.

Answer 8

call a vet, especially in later stages.
In early stages, it helps sometimes to walk the horse around, but don't take any chances with advanced colic.

Answer 9

Make sure that you keep you horse up and walking around. They often try to lay down but you can't let them. You defiantly need to call a vet. When the vet comes they usually stick a tube up their rectum and try to flush out whatever is clogging their intestines.

Answer 10

A late stage can kill a horse. Keep him walking and call a vet. don't let him go down. If you are talking about your horse that has just gotten over a bout of colic then slack off of the feed, not the hay, unless it is alfalfa. if you feed alfalfa, stop giving it to him and only feed grass hay, and very little oats.

Answer 11

CALL THE VET! You may already be too late. Impaction can occasionally be moved with oil, but this horse has probably already twisted a gut and you're looking at surgery or death. Surgery is going to cost around ten grand, but it's a lot less risky than it used to be.

Your choices aren't very good here. My condolences.