Of course Estrid would choose the only day of the year that I had no chance of getting her off the yard to need a vet. Let me set the scene...I was filming a nice little walk to the yard and feed the ponies in the snow vlog. I had to walk to the yard due to snow making the lane inaccessible, when it snows or is very icy I always give my horses a very sloppy warm mash to ensure they are hydrated and to replace the forage they are missing due to lack of grass. They have a small portion of this mash in their feed everyday so it's not new to them when they need extra.
This was the second time I had ventured to the yard that day as I had been up early to put out some haylage once I realised it had snowed. Estrid starts to eat her mash and then starts spitting it out....very unlike her, we actually laughed at her. Our laughter soon turned to 'is she ok', 'something isn't right' as she proceeded to wretch/cough whilst wandering around us...not to panic, I've seen choke before, they usually resolve without input, we just have to wait it out. Her neck has gone solid and she's obviously uncomfortable but she's breathing and there's nothing coming out her nose.
10minutes later she starts staggering around, pawing the ground, convulsing on her feet.....maybe it's not choke, maybe it's colic? There is too much snow to get her in the trailer and take her to the vet hospital so do I call the vet or do I wait? My logical brain says wait, I've witnessed two poops in the 10mins I thought she was choking for, and there are more signs for choke than colic, don't panic.
Then she staggers and lies down, but she get's straight back up, she's still breathing even if she doesn't look comfortable, she does the same a second time but less controlled, she then collapses like a ton of bricks head and everything to the ground, lets out a loud short breath and then doesn't breath again for about 25s, but it felt like 15mins. Ok, now I'm out of my depth, I don't know what this is and I call the vet. We get Estrid up and take her down to the yard.
The poor vet has to park up at the nearest accessible road and walk down the steep hill to the yard. I run up to meet her and help carry her stuff, while Dan takes Estrid to the stable, which we've just borrowed another liveries bedding to make a massive shavings bed incase she collapses again.
We get there and although distressed Estrid appears to be absolutely fine!!!!! Normal vitals, lots of stress poops because she doesn't like being in the stable and swallowing fine. I have never been more relieved/mildly irritated that I made a vet come out in this weather and hike to the yard for her to not even show a tiny symptom.
Because Estrid was winding herself up so much and we discussed that it was most likely choke and Estrid was just being particularly dramatic about it we decided to put her back out in the field, the vet stayed and watched her for a while and Estrid just carried on about her day. I even pointed out to the vet the 3 snow angels Estrid had made in the field when she went down, just to reassure her I wasn't nuts!
When she fell he 3rd time I genuinely thought she was going to die, and I'm not a panicky dramatic person, especially when it comes to anything medical. What we can now establish is that Estrid could be up for an Oscar for that performance!
Thanks for watching,
Beth
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