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I'm with Kristi...the couple of times we've had gas colics (well, it was actually my husband's horse, not us), it was due to ramping up the horse's amount of beet pulp too quickly.  He was gassy, and *very* noisy.  And not just excess "normal" sounds...the sounds were very sharp and kind of "pinging" in nature, instead of the usual rumbling and squirting noises.  He also seemed very painful.  Walking him around seemed to help...it "passed" in an hour or so, and he started "passing gas" rather loudly for another hour or so (ok, so he was farting like a bubba at an all-you-can-eat bean buffet...).  Once he started assing the gas, he was fine.

 

Dawn in East Texas

 

On 6/11/07, Kristi Schaaf <iluvdez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I may be incorrect in my understanding of gassy colic,
but here goes, and someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Hubby's horse gets gas colic if he gets too much lush
grass, and there are no quiet gut moments like your
horse had. That sounded more like an impaction (??) To
me, gassy colic means that there is so much, well, gas
that listening to the guts sounds like listening to
balloons hissing out air, and sometimes like balloons
popping while poltergeists wail in the background.
When this horse gets a strong gas colic, he will
almost literally attack anyone who attempts to touch
his flank. But, according to the vet, gassy colics are
rarely life threatening unless they trigger other
issues - the horse just THINKS he's going to die
because the gas pains are so sharp and painful.

Kristi

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