My 2 horses are on 24/7 live out livery at a local yard. They have feed, hayledge and basic needs monitored by yard owner and me and my daughter go up most days to groom ride etc.
on Thursday last week I went up as usual to help do jobs on the yard and ride, i was told that the farmer found one of my horses had tried to get through the electric fence which wasn’t on, he’d tied the fencing back but it wasn’t electrified. The yard owner was told at 9.30 at night but didn’t go down to rectify it. The girls went to put hayledge in field and I get a call saying both my horses were out in the corn field and had been eating the pheasant feed..
we stood them in all day, they both ate, drank, pooped and seemed fine. next morning I got a call saying one of them wasn’t right, called vet and he’d colic’d… he had treatment in the yard and after 24 hours of hell he seemed to pick up over night and was eating drinking pooing and looked brighter. Things went from bad to worse on the Saturday am when we found he had developed acute laminitis to all four feet!!!!
all emotions ran through my head, he looked so poorly and struggling. He had some bute and the farrier arrived and applied frog supports. He said that he felt confident we can help him and doing everything we can at the moment. Obv the 72 hours is critical and will need a long rehab process.
its just a nightmare