Do you call the vet the instant your horse sneezes, or wait a few days and see what develops?
One of our sec A brood mares was rather lame a week ago when I went to check on them. Her front end was incredibly perky, ears alert, inquisitive, her normal chipper self. The back end was really stiff, she was standing four square, but shifting her weight from one foot to the other. We felt her back, trimmed and cleaned her feet, felt her legs, we couldnt find anything wrong.
Given that she was very well in herself, we tried suck it and see. Put a rug on her and left her out with the others. She improved daily, and is pretty much back to normal today.
WIBU to think that if we had called the vet, he would more than likely have said laminitis, put her on box rest where she would have stiffened up more, then wanted to treat her for various different ailments, until she eventually got better, and charged me a fortune for the privilege.
Do you trust your gut, or call the vet?
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Call the vet? Or suck it and see?
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SaggyOldClothCatPuss · 23/10/2012 19:46
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