Two weeks before Christmas, on December 9th, I received a call from my (at the time) barn owner. They had said my newly-adopted 6 year old Appendix QH mare, SoCo hadn’t eaten her dinner or breakfast and was acting funny. My mom and I jumped in the truck, Banamine in hand, and rushed to the barn. Twenty agonizing minutes later I arrived to find my mare in the pasture, [ Read More ]
Everybody has a colic story. Whether it’s a story about your own horse, a story about a friend’s horse, or a story about another horse in your barn, just about every horse person understands what it’s like to endure a colic episode. If you’ve personally experienced colic, you know how scary it is. That late night phone call to the vet, the decision to go through with surgery, the constant [ Read More ]
The Crusade Against Equine Colic is a movement empowering all horse people to learn how to reduce our horses’ risk for colic – and to share that knowledge with fellow equestrians.
