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Oct. 25th, 2018 06:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickBaby horse is alert, oriented, willing to trot away from me (I had a flashlight in my hand when I touched her is why), and chowing down on her kibble and hay with enthusiasm.
She is not dehydrated *that* badly as of this evening so we opted to not IV her again with fluids. Mouth mucous membranes wet, saliva production OK, capillary refill sufficient, gums pale pink. There is slight neck skin tenting but resolves in under 2 seconds and she’s lost weight over the last two weeks.
I made her a rehydration bucket (15 grams of regular un-iodized salt, 15 grams of potassium-only fake salt, 20 grams of sugar all dissolved in 4.5 L of warm water) to go alongside her regular bucket of plain water in case she wanted that instead of regular water. (I am a hopeless dork.) She also has a mineral block if she wants that. For eating, she has bagged alfalfa chop, second-cut hay, milk pellet kibble, and eq-8 gut health kibble. She is doing a better job at eating, cleaned up her milk pellet kibble last night, first time in two weeks, and made a hole in the alfalfa chop clean to the bottom of the tub.
She was not shivering in her blanket (with extra straps, it does stay on) and was happily eating grass in the field with her aunties when I went over to put her in at 7:30 PM. Also she tried to kick Trys when she shot her with penicillin today. That’s new.
She’s still dead. Her bloodwork numbers are not all normal yet. She’s eating better, but not as well as she should. She’s drinking better, but not perfect yet. I want a full week of normal eating and drinking and peeing and pooping PLUS ALSO good bloodwork numbers and normal temps before she can be not-dead.
She is not dehydrated *that* badly as of this evening so we opted to not IV her again with fluids. Mouth mucous membranes wet, saliva production OK, capillary refill sufficient, gums pale pink. There is slight neck skin tenting but resolves in under 2 seconds and she’s lost weight over the last two weeks.
I made her a rehydration bucket (15 grams of regular un-iodized salt, 15 grams of potassium-only fake salt, 20 grams of sugar all dissolved in 4.5 L of warm water) to go alongside her regular bucket of plain water in case she wanted that instead of regular water. (I am a hopeless dork.) She also has a mineral block if she wants that. For eating, she has bagged alfalfa chop, second-cut hay, milk pellet kibble, and eq-8 gut health kibble. She is doing a better job at eating, cleaned up her milk pellet kibble last night, first time in two weeks, and made a hole in the alfalfa chop clean to the bottom of the tub.
She was not shivering in her blanket (with extra straps, it does stay on) and was happily eating grass in the field with her aunties when I went over to put her in at 7:30 PM. Also she tried to kick Trys when she shot her with penicillin today. That’s new.
She’s still dead. Her bloodwork numbers are not all normal yet. She’s eating better, but not as well as she should. She’s drinking better, but not perfect yet. I want a full week of normal eating and drinking and peeing and pooping PLUS ALSO good bloodwork numbers and normal temps before she can be not-dead.
