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Daily elyting vs impaction colic
Following the recent thread on daily
elyting not being advisable (and I understand the reasoning), and because we are
going into winter, I decided to stop giving daily elytes to the horses, and
instead to elyte only if they had been in hard work and sweating. I
stopped the elytes on Wednesday, and Friday night Toc colicked. Bad
impaction.
Unfortunately, I had minor surgery on
Thursday, and couldn't check on his water in the stable Thursday night or in the
paddock on Friday, but I suspect that he has drunk next to nothing. My
vet, when he did a rectal, said that he doubted he'd drunk anything at all on
Friday.
So, he had a bran mash on Saturday
morning, lunchtime and night, and Sunday morning, and is back on daily elytes,
and is once again drinking (not huge amounts, but at least he's
drinking).
PG's water consumption didn't change
at all when I stopped elyting him, so I'm keeping him off of them until he needs
them (before a show).
Tracey
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