dagbecian
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Post by dagbecian on Dec 30, 2010 21:22:50 GMT 1
in the stable. He is a shire cross and unclipped. Should I be concerned which I am? !!
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Post by anastasia55555 on Dec 30, 2010 21:25:00 GMT 1
is it still minus numbers by you? or is a few degrees above 0 now? Jennyg had similar problem but not stabled, found that it was prob due to weather warming up again by a few degrees after very cold temps. Is everything else ok, breathing, eating, drinking, toilet? maybe take his temp?
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Post by cassiejane on Dec 30, 2010 21:41:05 GMT 1
Why dont you call the vet and have a chat, mine are always lovely and very happy to have a chat about my health worries for my horse.
Just one thought though, I have been walking on the sandstone trail today in just a tshirt, its only 8 degrees but I guess I must have got used to the cold (up to minus 18 here) we have been having and now 8 degrees seems like bikini weather so possibly the horses feel the same?
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Post by julz on Dec 30, 2010 22:04:49 GMT 1
see how it goes and if he starts showing other sypmtoms or looking distressed, call a vet. Hope it is just the weather temp increase..
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Post by kirsten on Dec 30, 2010 22:35:38 GMT 1
My TB x Welsh (unclipped) sweats in the stable in winter, even in the -19 or so we had recently. If he seems fine in himself I don't worry.
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Post by jill on Dec 31, 2010 8:50:16 GMT 1
The only experience I had of a horse sweating in the stable she turned out to have Cushings, and with it IR which caused the sweating. Is it just something that has shown itself for a day or so. or longer term?
If longer, I would get some dip strips and dip a urine sample to see what his levels of glucose are like (your vet may advise) and adjust his diet to take out sugars and starches if he does prove to have high levels. It's rather like diabetes and can often be much improved with diet.
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Post by jennyg on Jan 3, 2011 23:39:54 GMT 1
Just read this as not been on for a few days. As Anastasia said, my mare was getting sweaty when it was plus 5 degrees. I checked her breathing rate and temperature and all normal so I put it down to the increase in temperature.
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Post by Lulu on Jan 4, 2011 3:55:31 GMT 1
The only experience I had of a horse sweating in the stable she turned out to have Cushings, and with it IR which caused the sweating. Is it just something that has shown itself for a day or so. or longer term? If longer, I would get some dip strips and dip a urine sample to see what his levels of glucose are like (your vet may advise) and adjust his diet to take out sugars and starches if he does prove to have high levels. It's rather like diabetes and can often be much improved with diet. Would love to try some dip strips on a mare at work that I am sure is either IR or cushings. She sweats easily when in, and had so much trouble gaining weight (she did have foal at foot then, which has since been weaned, and her weight is now back to where it should be). I'm treating her as a IR case atm, no grains, no sugars, and just simple feed. Top Spec cool and condition cubes worked for her.. Sorry to hi-jack your thread Dagbecian, hope your shire is ok... |
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