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Discussion on Attitude change recently
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Member:
Quatro
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Posted on Wednesday, Jan 4, 2006 - 9:20 pm:
Hi All, Cody, my normally mellow horse, has just yesterday seemed a bit moody. He seemed to get testy when I groomed him near his back belly. Turning his head towards me. When I put pressure on both sides of his belly he seemed irritated. He is eating all his grain, eating hay, drinking ok, seems to be normal amount of poop in the stall. He always has small dryer balls. Normal for him. Tonight the cat jumped on his stall wall, and his took a big bite at him. Could this be a sign that he is not feeling well, or am I being overly weird? They are due for worming this week. Anything else I should do in case he is having a tummy ache problem. He is not a collicky horse.
thanks
suz
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Mrose
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Posted on Thursday, Jan 5, 2006 - 8:04 pm:
Personally, I would check out his temperature and poke around a little to see if I can find anything wrong with him,and if I can't then I'd just keep an eye on him and see if he continues to act "moody." It may be that he's just having a "bad" day or two. Like people, horses can have "good" and "bad" days. If he doesn't get "normal" soon, or he seems to get worse, I'd have him checked by the vet.
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Quatro
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Posted on Thursday, Jan 5, 2006 - 8:08 pm:
Thanks Sara, you know we have not seen the sun here in Iowa for a bout a bazillion days. I think that all of us humans are crabby, maybe the horses are affected to. He seems to be eating ok, I might cut back on his alfalfa, maybe too much for not much activity. It is too icy to get out and run so maybe that is all it is. I wondered if I should run some psyllium through everybody? they have been digging in the snow and eating who knows what?
Did not know if that would be a concern in the winter or not.
suz
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Mrose
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Posted on Thursday, Jan 5, 2006 - 8:33 pm:
We've had a wonderfully mild winter so far. However, when I have to keep horses in I give them lots of grass hay to chew on so they have something to do. Our trainer gives her horses cubes on crummy days as it takes the horses a lot longer to eat them than their hay. I've never used psyllium, never felt the need for it where we live. Our horses paw and chew at the snow when we have it,too. But our soil is so hard they'd have to use a jack hammer to get enough sand or dirt to hurt them, in the winter time especially.
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DrO
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Posted on Friday, Jan 6, 2006 - 8:16 am:
Though a overall exam is called for, the most common reason we see for horses attitudes to sour during grooming is early dermatophillus infections, prior to lesions forming, see Equine Diseases » Skin Diseases » Hair and Coat Problems / Itching / Irritated Skin » Rain Rot and Rain Scald: Dermatophillus. We have many write in with similar problems who find within a week that their horses broke with dermatophillus.
DrO
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