That works well for the lighter colics. Our vet came out at 8pm, gave her a shot of bantamine, tubed the horse (a tube up the nose down into the stomach) then pumped a gallon of mineral oil into her. This worked fine a few years ago. By 3am she was rolling around again, the oil did not work. We were then off to the large animal clinic for surgery, but the damage to the colon was too great (twisted causing the colon to start to die), and she only lasted 10 hours after the surgery. Reading the vet info on google, there are about 100 ways a horse can colic. This one was a real bad one not often survived. Was a side effect of having a foal. I am not bitter, now that I understand what happened. There are risks in every aspect of horse owning/breeding. This was one of them. You just have to move on.
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