Well little un-named is getting stronger. We had a minor setback Saturday when we noticed him straining to, um, shall we say, "use the bathroom." After making several phone calls back and forth with my vet, we determined it was serious enough that he needed to be seen at the clinic in Springville. So we loaded the Mare & foal up (not too easy as he's gained in size and weight in the past 10 days) and took off for the 45 minute drive. I was scared he might lay down and the mare would step on him, or that the strain of the trip would be too much for his legs.
But we arrived safely, until we walked him into the clinic and both the mare and foal slipped on the wet concrete. seriously, I know it's been there a while and the ridges that were once there have smoothed out, but you'd think they do something about that- rubber mats maybe??? Anyway, it was a good thing we took him in- he was starting to show signs of colic- the vet gave him an enema (we had already done that at home with no success), and also gave him some mineral oil through a tube in his nose into his stomach., as well as a shot of banamine- a pain med. While we were there, and since I did not want to make another trip back in a week, we went ahead and had an xray done of the colt's knees.
We were crossing our fingers that they would be mineralized already. (The cartilage hardened) Yah! They were! so the crookedness we're dealing with is strictly weak ligaments due to the premature birth and the fact he's growing so fast.
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