19 Horses SICK!!!!!! (Vienna, GA) I am trying to get information on a very serious problem. We had a large group of horses. These horses were some of the best horses I have ever come across. All of a sudden they got sick and started dying. The symptoms were similar to botulism but it happened so fast that the we couldnt get lab results quick enough to save them. They all went from showing the first symptoms to being put down or dying in a period of 5-12 hours. We lost 7 the first day, 5 the second day and then 1 and 2 a day after that, this came to total number of 19. We took a horse to the diagnostic lab in Tifton and they sent samples of to PA. We received the results of Botulism in the intensive and stomach contents of the horse. The initial response of the vet and lab staff was suspected botulism so we sent two samples of the hay that the horses were consuming along with the other samples to PA. The hay samples came back Negative. After many sleepless hours and nights of staying in the field with my horses I kept thinking of what could it be that they all had access to other than the hay. The only other thing that we were feeding was sweet feed and weight builder. The sweet feed was Wrangler 10% and Wrangler 12 %. The weight builder was a Dumor product. I was just wanting to know if anyone else has had anything like this to happen. I never would have suspected botulism or anything like that had it not been for the large number of horses that were affected. If we had just had a normal amount of 1 or 2 horses we would have been very sad that they ( got sick and died ) but probably would not have had all these tests done. I am not pointing fingers or trying to cause problems I am only asking for some answers. The symptoms that we witnessed were: horses would hang their head, drooling excessively, chewed hay in their mouth but not swallowing it. Staggering, falling down as if pushed over, seizures, excessive muscle twitching in the facial muscles. After a short period of time the horses tongue would hang out of the mouth, the horse was unable to move the tongue. inability to get up and finally death or euthanasia. If you or anyone you know have had any symptoms like this or if you find anything in common with all of this please send me an email or call me at 229-406-1470. I am desperately trying to find out where this botulism could be so that I can avoid this happening again. Thank you for taking the time to read this and hopefully help solve this problem. ( All of the pictured horses are no longer with us, these were our heart and souls. The childrens pets and mine and my husbands pride and joy. Please Help !!) 65 Five Star Rd (google map) (yahoo map) •Location: Vienna, GA •its NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests Posting ID: 4199149308 Posted: about 8 hours ago email to a friend
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 01:33:07 +0000
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