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    A WATERY situation

    Dec 09, 2021 5 minutes
    AS TOLD TO STEPHANIE BATEMAN

    VET notes

    WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

    • What faecal water syndrome is

    • How it affects horses

    • What causes it

    MEET THE EXPERT

    LEONA BRAMALL MVB CertAVP(EM) MRCVS is an equine vet at Gillivervet Ltd, Lancashire. Leona holds an advanced veterinary practitioner certificate in equine medicine and her primary areas of interest lie in dermatology and gastrointestinal disease. Visit gillivervet.co.uk

    A FREQUENT TELEPHONE advice call that we vets receive is that a patient has developed free faecal liquid. The horse in question is normally otherwise well in itself but is ‘squirting’ faecal stained liquid before passing droppings, as they pass wind or at the same time as they are passing droppings. Faecal consistency may be normal to slightly soft. Affected horses frequently have faecal staining on the backs of their hindlimbs and

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