The vet suggested we take him off of sweet feed and change him to Fat and Fibre. There was no mention of putting him on medication or testing his hay. We thought we had it managed but unfortnately he had a mild attack a few months ago. We called the vet and were told not to worry that the management was working since it was just a mild attack.

Three days ago he had another sever attack and he was down again in his stall with his whole hind end paralyzed again. We started treatment right away with a different vet. After 24 hours, medication and 25 litres of fluid over a 24 hour period we were still unable to get him to his feet. The vet suggested we get him to his feet the way we did the last time and with straps, block and tackle we were able to get him up again. He did the same thing peed alot and then his muscles seem to unlock and he began to move around again and as he got stronger we were able to take the straps off.

The vet changed him to oats and we tested the hay and found out the potassium is 1.98. He is also going to be on medication to help manage the potassium.

Can anyone give me any insighted on why he is having so many severe attack as a n/h horse and is the hay to high in potassium. can anyone else give me suggestions as what else we need to do. We are all struggling to understand why he is having so many attacks

Hi there, thanx for taking the time to read this.
I’m not a vett. But someone who lost in a short notice 3 horses and probably because of this. My vett told me that this is related with hypp.

Please read this carefully, i don’t want anyone else to go true this. And sorry for my poor english.

In march 96 i bought a beatiful mare Pretty Tessa#3199242. She was imported from Kentucky to the neterlands and had all kinds of damadge because the plane had to make an emerengy brake.

Beacause of that she was very stiff (I thougt) in her hips.

After a couple of months ,i got her pretty good. When i trained her to much, she became again stif in the hips.
At that time i had a lot of contact with the breeder and she told me that the father of my mare allready died Pretty peppy burner 2676303 beacause of a car accedent.

My mare has anccestors who are nows for carring hypp. But she was resulted negative. N/N

So she got her first foal. Pretty midnight Zan 4011415. He got his 2 hind legs in the gated and freeked out. He got really stif at both hips. But he was also hypp N/N For a year i went to several horseklinics, But no one could help my little colt. I had to put him down. It was the only humane ting to do.
This was number one.

After a couple of years i bred her to golden boy 3617802. This filly was totaly different in her walk trot and lope. Im confident that this mare is good. I’ve sold her with a good feeling.

I kept the same problem with my mare, stif in her hips. But we bred her again and now with Magic Power special 3340017. Again a beatifull black stallion. I could’nt be more happy. But after a couple of months, i saw somthing very disturbing. Stiff and weird in the hips. But when i kept traing relaxed and not to heavy, i went pretty good. Beacause of the former experience i had a total scan made of his skeleton. Everything was good! I was so happy… But my disutbing feeling didn’t go away.

My mare became stiffer and stiffer.. nobody could tell wat it was.. Now she also had an other problem, long problems.. So i als had to put her down last spring. This mare was my best friend, She was the best horse trainer ever. My first child gone!

My beatiful colt beacame the most gentle staollion you have ever met. Whe could just let him eat the gras in the front yard with the children, hye would’nt look up ore misbehave.

But 10-09-2009 My worst nightmare beacame true. We woke up, my youg stud was lying in the pasture, not like hypp weak… no totaly hard. Like a toy horse who had felt over.

His back was really dirty so at this point we thougt coliek. We got him back on his feet and he was so cold!
The vett from a big horse hospital came and he was also confinced at this point that it was koliek (Tummy pain) So he got real pain killers and parafinne right in his stomage for this. This was 8.00 am. It should be beter at 2.00 pm.
Well.. Not.. after an houre and a half.. the pain was back. My husband had allready left for work, my kids were at school. So i started walking with him again. A friend close by cam and she also had a weird feeling with this case. We were taliking it over and he dropped himself again. We tried to get him up again. But with the 2 of us we could’nt do a thing. The vett told us to come to the horse hospital as soon as possible. With 5 man we got him in the trailer. Butat least on his feet. One stayed in the trailer. We got him to the hospital.
I told the vett to look furter becouse i didnt think it was coliek. That i was thinking more like HYPP. He was more reacting like mondaysicknes. they took al kinds off tests, and it wasnt HYPP. But wat is it. He got al kinds off drip. But in a couple of hours he got worse and worse. He was totally tieing up. He beacame solid as a rock. After 6 hours het ried to get up and pee.. It was like red wine. and then blood.. I lost him….

The believe that it is EPSM.

Now ive been thinking. Is it possible that hypp mutateds into this so that we can’t tested it. But every body needs to know about this.

I also think that it is more dangerous for stallions then mares.
Becouse of pretty peppy Burner ( i don’t belaeve anymore that it was a car accident), pretty Midnight Zan, magicly pretty and my very best friend Pretty tessa.

The stallions was very clear. But the mare. Lungs are also muscels, And her weird stiffness.

I’ve you want to do something with this,
I kept some hair with roots from him (Magicly Pretty).
Ive you want this to do dna testing on it. you can have it. But ive you’re not. Then i keep his hair.

But really.. do something with this information…I’m hoping i can be off anny help. I do not want anyone els to go true this….
It’s every horse lovers worst nightmare.

When im feeling a little better. The papers of my mare and stud will follow. But can i please have ther papers back? I want it with there foto’s on the wall.

Diana