**insert string of expletive's here* its bloody laminitis, I am 99.9% sure
got there at 3.30 yesterday, to a sweaty, very uncomfortable Dan, he'd been laid down but was up when I got there, trying to turn we got the classic rock back onto the heels. I gave him half a bute. Went back at 8.30 to find him little improved and laid down again, HR 56, resp 40, so gave him the other half a bute and that seemed to quickly get him comfortable.
Poor little sod, I feel so bad. But, he was bright and cheerful, when I was checking stats he was diving in my pockets looking for any treats I may have and fussing that I might feed him again, so although he's in pain, his spirits are quite high. He was much more comfortable this morning, I didn't dare give him more bute but have a call in to the vet to check how much he can safely have.
I'm racking my brains about what has changed, he's not as fat as he has been in the past, he's on the same haylage I've used for the last year or more (though we did have the blip a month ago when they sent the wrong type), no grass to speak of. I hate to say it, but I think it could possibly be the arrival of my friends chickens. They are between houses so they asked if the chickens could come to my coop temporarily, the night they dropped them off they went to empty the chicken food out of the crate in the paddock (the coop is right on the fence line, just outside) and I caught them and explained it would give Dan lami......I'm wondering if they have been spilling it by the fence when they have been coming to feed them and Dan has been hoovering it up.