Posts Tagged ‘colic’
PSA: Don’t feed the Horses
May 1, 2018
Savanna Simmons
Clippings, that is. Don’t feed the horses lawn clippings. In all seriousness, I stumbled across this post by Red Rock Equine Veterinary Inc. PS and Dr. Rothschild, and, with her permission, I am sharing the information with you. It may be redundant or you may have heard this and forgotten it, but it’s so tempting […]
Winter Weather Increases Risk of Colic in Horses: Part 2–Water
January 12, 2017
By Kristin Danley-Greiner for The Fence Post
Read part 1 of this series about winter colic in horses here. Dehydration is probably the biggest factor in winter colic. “We’ll see horses with an obstruction or impaction in their colon due to the colic. They have about 100 to 120 feet of intestine from one end to the other, so if they aren’t […]
Winter Weather Boosts Risk of Colic in Horses: Part 1
January 11, 2017
By Kristin Danley-Greiner for The Fence Post
Horses don’t need much—food, water, a little protection from the elements. Wild horses can get by on old grass and snow all winter, without any help from automatic waterers or heated barns. But there’s a difference between surviving and thriving, and when you’ve invested heavily–both financially and emotionally–in an animal, surviving just isn’t good enough. […]