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Diane Edmonds
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Username: Scooter
Post Number: 319
Registered: 9-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, Jun 21, 2006 - 6:44 am: |   |
Hi Dr.O. Flash the 26 year old mare was quidding about a month ago, so I had the vet out, who is also a dentist. He found some points which were lacerating her cheeks. He did a power float and removed points, the next day the quidding was gone. 2 days ago the quidding returned, by quidding I mean she sticks a ball of grass in her cheek (she looks like a chipmonk) it is always on her left side. She eats fine. It seems when she does this quidding she doesn't feel as well as normal. Could something other than teeth be the problem here? or could they be sharp again after being floated approx 6 weeks ago? Thanks |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 15921
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Wednesday, Jun 21, 2006 - 9:30 am: | |
No I don't think a point forming but possibly something else may have become painful to chew on or simply that the horse has returned to old habits. I am suspicious since the quidding stopped for a month, you could consider having the mouth reexamined.
DrO |
Diane Edmonds
Member
Username: Scooter
Post Number: 323
Registered: 9-2000
| | Posted on Friday, Jun 23, 2006 - 8:28 am: | |
Hi Dr.O. I talked to my vet about the quidding and he thought it could be something she was eating, an abscessed tooth, or habit. Like you he thought it was strange she took up the quidding after a month. He said he could x-ray her teeth, but in the mean time to try the cheap route, I gave her a bute and the next day she wasn't quidding, I checked their pasture and lo and behold some horse has been eating thisles, she is known to love them! I weed wacked the thisles and she has not been quidding since. Coincidence? or is it possible it was due to thisles somehow? |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
Moderator
Username: Dro
Post Number: 15947
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Saturday, Jun 24, 2006 - 7:57 pm: | |
Possible....
DrO |
