Mounted search and rescue

["David leadbetter" <dleadbetter1@aapt.net.au>]

Sometimes it pays to be a bit of a detective doesnt it?

A few years ago my mare was having bouts of intermittent colic,on her second tubing..there it was, a citrus smell.Needless to say she did not ever go back in the orchard.

When our section is out ,training or ops we always have molasses on hand to add to water.I have electrolyte paste on hand but have never had to use it.

If I know a day is going to be over about 35 degrees and its training I wimp out...to b----y hot for me never mind my horse.Operations of course one must suck it up and do the job.

If it was over about 38 [100] we would probably only do half a day per team.

 

cheers

 

Linda L

perth WA [SES Mounted section]

----- Original Message -----

From: Susan J. Duke

To: msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:51 AM

Subject: [MSAR] electrolytes

I always kept the paste tube of quick electrolytes around as an emergency backup in the med kit, I also used the apple flavored granules for both horses and dogs, and all  drank the water just fine.

The time I actually used the tube was one winter we had a water tank heater develop a short in it, unbeknownst to us horse owners at the barn.  When the horse would try to get a drink, the water tank would zing them slightly.  So they stopped drinking out of the tank, and it was a day or so before I got a call that my horse acted disoriented.  I rushed out there, made a diagnosis of dehydration, yet the tank was full with clean water, upon further investigation then we tracked down the short in the heater.  While we all checked the water levels as habit, no one thought to notice whether they were drinking any, and we all came out there at different times and would think somebody else had filled the tank.  Lesson learned.  I tube pasted my horse with electrolytes and got him in own bucket of water in a stall and it all got solved shortly. We replaced the heater, and had no more problems.

But i got called out there at 9pm at night after the stores were closed, so having those electrolytes in the med kit came in handy.  I recommend having some around, you never know.

Susan J. Duke
in Central Illinois

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