De-worming the abandoned foal ~ winter worming against encysted small redworms

So today was worming day for Eggsy a very important winter de-wormer against encysted small redworms (small strongyles, cyathostomes) a major killer in abandoned foals.

An over burden of small red worm encysted larvae can cause damage to the intestinal wall resulting in an inability to absorb nutrients, diarrhoea and debilitation, when they emerge from their cysts they can also cause colic.

In their encysted state small red worms will not show up in a worm count also they are protected from most wormers by the cyst wall so during the winter all horses should be given either a single dose of a moxiddectin wormer or a 5 day course of fenbendazole.

Eggsy is being given the moxiddectin de-wormer Equest. As you can see he is very good about standing and taking the wormer not even requiring a head collar. We think he must like the taste!

Equest is one of the more expensive equine de-wormers retailing at around £10 -£12 if you'd like to sponsor Eggsy's de-wormer a donation can be made on his GoFundMe page.

Would you like to help Eggsy? 

Eggsy has a GoFundMe campaign to help raise funds for his care, we'd be really grateful if you'd go take a look, share it far and wide via your social media and of course if you can spare some money please donate.

Help Raise Abandoned Foal Eggsy ~ GoFundMe

Thank you, Eggsy and I really appreciate it x

Help raise abandoned foal Eggsy GoFundMe 72% raised

Eggsy's GoFundMe has been rather slow moving of late then no sooner than we make our latest round of thank you's and we get another much needed donation. Enough money to keep Eggsy in hard food and forage for a week!

Thank you Dee!

Dee, a great animal lover, runs Diggory Lifestyle  she'll help you de-clutter!

Would you like to help Eggsy? 

Eggsy has a GoFundMe campaign to help raise funds for his care, we'd be really grateful if you'd go take a look, share it far and wide via your social media and of course if you can spare some money please donate.

Help Raise Abandoned Foal Eggsy ~ GoFundMe

Thank you, Eggsy and I really appreciate it x

Happy Valentine's Day & a help raise abandoned foal GoFundMe update

 Happy Valentine's Day!

Today seems like a good day to give you an update on how Eggsy's "help raise abandoned foal" GoFundMe appeal is going:

We hit the £1000 milestone back in November last year and are now up to 71% with £1,265. Thanks are due to :

Norfolk Bea  of the Holt Bird Cafe Shop

Karen from the Leicestershire and Rutland Gardens Trust

Eleonore of Marburger Pferdchen 

Dianne who owns The Urban Cottage in Stamford

Rachel Bastone photographer and tireless supporter of Welsh Horse Pony Aid 

Pat

Robin

Diane

Athena

Helen

Mazzie

and of course to those who prefer to remain anonymous.

So Eggsy kisses all round to everyone who has kindly donated and helped spread the word about Eggsy's plight. Thank you, we honestly couldn't do this without your help!

Would you like to help Eggsy? 

Eggsy has a GoFundMe campaign to help raise funds for his care, we'd be really grateful if you'd go take a look, share it far and wide via your social media and of course if you can spare some money please donate.

Help Raise Abandoned Foal Eggsy ~ GoFundMe

Thank you, Eggsy and I really appreciate it x

A gift for Eggsy

Look what came in the post for Eggsy this morning




his very own tub of Pony Curls  a  gift that will smarten our fluffy little fella up for a special occasion.

We're looking forward to trying them out on Eggsy when the weather improves.

Thank you Pony Curls 

Would you like to help Eggsy? 

Eggsy has a GoFundMe campaign to help raise funds for his care, we'd be really grateful if you'd go take a look, share it far and wide via your social media and of course if you can spare some money please donate.

Help Raise Abandoned Foal Eggsy ~ GoFundMe

Thank you, Eggsy and I really appreciate it x

Eggsy's locking stifles ~ an update

We've spoken about Eggsy's locking stiffles before  but we thought it was about time we did a little update on how he's doing.

When Eggsy was abandoned there were times when he would quite literally drag one or other of his hind legs along. It was horrible to see and in a way quite frightening, the video below although not of Eggsy shows what we're talking about here:




We found that Eggsy was always worse if he didn't move much so in an attempt to get him moving we would take the feed waggon through is paddock.

As you can see he was quite enthusiastic in his pursuit of hard feed ! And it was a fairly successful ploy because he quite quickly went from the awful dragging of his legs to this:

This video shows the action we're talking about, again it isn't a video of Eggsy but one that we found on YouTube:




Eggsy's stifles continue to lock like this when he stands still for any length of time but he is able to unlock them once he gets going.

We remain hopeful that Eggsy will eventually grow out of this condition so that he doesn't have to have surgery.

Would you like to help Eggsy? 

Eggsy has a GoFundMe campaign to help raise funds for his care, we'd be really grateful if you'd go take a look, share it far and wide via your social media and of course if you can spare some money please donate.

Help Raise Abandoned Foal Eggsy ~ GoFundMe

Thank you, Eggsy and I really appreciate it x