Anyone seen a belly like this on a gelding?

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This little horse belongs to a neighbor. They say he got sick last fall.
He doesn't look real good yet and I'm just wondering why he has such a belly. He's at our place and I will worm him and get him on some good feed to lay his hair down. He's a four year old and I do like him.
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Here's a close up. I've just not seen this before. Could it just be a hay belly and worms?


He really wants to travel out. I like the way he moves.

[gcreekrch]

He looks exactly like 90% of the Rez horses up here. Worms and poorer quality feed will give a horse quite a belly. Has he been rustling on his own for the winter?

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[quote="Faster horses"]This little horse belongs to a neighbor. They say he got sick last fall.
He doesn't look real good yet and I'm just wondering why he has such a belly. He's at our place NOW and I will worm him and get him on some good feed to lay his hair down. He's a four year old and I do like him.
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Here's a close up. I've just not seen this before. Could it just be a hay belly and worms?
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He really wants to travel out. I like the way he moves.

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[HAY MAKER]

Shore ive seen geldins with belly's like that ,look at the picture of big dummie and grnck,both those ole geldins have big belly's
good luck

PS I agree with you girls,worm him and get some minerals in him exercise,then post his picture.

[Chickshunt2]

I'm thinking the same thing..poor feed and worms. Get him home, get him on some good feed, get him wormed a few times more than normal and groom him up a bit and I bet you'll have a totally different looking horse on your hands. From what I can see in the pics, I like the way he is built! And that pic of him stepping out just makes me think he is going to be a dream to ride. He shows a nice long forearm and a long stride to go with it. I think if you get him working good and get his hind end under him your going to have one very smooth power house of a horse. Even with the belly and the ungroomed coat, I think he is a very pretty horse, I love the sliverish-grey-blue color of his coat. Even his mane has the same colors, unlike many horses of his coloring that just have a much darker mane and tail. Hes a looker thats for sure!

Is he a paint? The 2nd pic of him really show off a cool lighter/whitish marking on his belly. He also looks to have a bit of white on his face?

[gcreekrch]

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Yes, Chickshut he is a paint. He is sired by a nice paint stud with running horse blood right down the road a bit and out of a grey AQHA mare.

The neighbor called this morning and the mare came in for her grain.
Only nibbled at it, though. He said when he went back out to check on her she had died right there on the spot. She was a real nice mare and in foal. That's too bad. I wonder what happened to her.

We lost a nice 7 year old gelding several years ago that we had bought a week or so before. Mr. FH rode him 3 times and liked him better every time he rode him. He was a real 'happy' horse, everything was fine with him. Mr. FH gave him some grain and turned him out one evening.
When he went to gather the horses the next morning, this horse was lying dead on the road. We had no idea what it could have been so we had the
vet out to post him. It was caused by salmonella. That's were stress or something causes the salmonella to overgrow in the stomach. This horse didn't act stressed at all. We were shocked. Had never even heard of horses dying of salmonella prior to that. It is contagious, so we buried him.

Like everyone that has horses knows, it only happens to the good ones!!

BTW, thanks for your nice remarks about the 'Skunk' horse as Mr. FH calls him. He belongs to the neighbor, but I hope to keep him here and we'll get him on some Progressive Nutriton, Vigortone mineral and worm him. Oh ya, green grass too!! I'll post a picture of him in a month.
I'm afraid to worm him with anything but Safeguard as I'm afraid he
has a big worm load.

[Chickshunt2]

I would hit him twice with the safeguard(21 days apart) then switch to iver. or quest plus. That should kill off a good deal of what he might have before hitting him with the "hard" stuff. Since he does look to have a pretty good load I would also make sure to keep him away from the other horses while getting this worm thing under control. Every time he poops he's helping to spread the eggs into your horses living environment. Even with using the safeguard I would still watch him with the 1st dose, maybe give it to him and wait about a half hour- hour and then take him for a walk? This way if they do start to die off fast you'll be helping to keep things moving through him.

[Faster horses]

Thanks for your input. Safeguard is called that, because it is really safe.
I talked to the owner tonight and he said he wormed him with Ivomec "not too long ago"...whatever that means. Other than bots,
I don't see any reason to use an avermectin wormer.

I might do the power pack thing on him. I wonder why he got sick last fall? They said something about him getting pushed away from the bale feeder. That sounds like he didn't get enough to eat, rather than being sick. Well, I'll do the before and after pictures. Thanks for caring, chickshut. I appreciate it.