Re: Peter update

"J. Z. M." <clayridgefarm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 6/29/07 2:41 PM, "Hunter" wrote:

Poor Petey. The vet was due out this morning and by last night I was
all
"uh oh" - he was lethargic, slightly lame behind and his temperature was
elevated. We hosed him down for 30 min and gave him 2g of bute, and he
seemed to feel better. By 5am this morning the slight swelling on his
rh
had turned into major swelling and he was on the road to lymphangitis.
Luckily, vet showed up right on time, pumped him full of cortisone,
antibiotics and dex and $400 later we decided that Pete is a good
candidate
to start azium the minute he gets the hives.

Oh Callen,

What a bummer. Sheesh, you buy your own place and bring him home and
now this.....

I would slather him in fly spray....


Fly spray is nothing to a horse who is allergic to the bites, not all
horses who are plagued with bugs are sensitive to the saliva the bug
injects
into the horse's skin when the bug bites.

AZIUM is something that can cause laminitis and founder, I hope you are
aware of this side effect. Use it with caution. To prevent the hives you
might want to ask your vet about a daily supplement of Benadryl while the
bugs are around and limiting the turn out with a fly *** and hood.

I had a mare with bug saliva sensitivity and it was a nightmare.
Literally
and figuratively, kept her in in the high bug weather and gave her ground
up
Benadryl twice a day to keep the allergies at bay. It worked, along with a
fly ***, hood, and leg wraps. One pill per hundred pounds ground into
food
twice a day will relieve a great deal of misery for Peter, ask the vet.
Mine
suggested it and it was a Godsend for Allie.

Hi Jody,

Thank you for the suggestions. Peter and Glider are on turnout 24/7 until
we get the barn finished, so they are in flysheets and the cashel masks with
long noses. That's interesting about the saliva; it would explain why Peter
suffered so dreadfully and Glider hardly at all. Peter won't eat anything
mixed in his feed so I'd have to melt the benadryl and inject into his mouth
to get it in him; the vet felt that he would be a good candidate for azium
and stressed that they would prescribe the lowest effective dose possible.
I probably wouldn't give it to Glider who has shown a tendency to laminitis
but I feel more secure with Peter.

Do you have any fly boots you'd recommend? The latest Horse Journal picked
those made by Cashel which also makes my favorite fly masks...

Callen in VA


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