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Do not give a tired horse oats. Let him eat hay for a half hour 

 and then give him the oats. Too much bulk ( if very indigestible 

 or too concentrated ) will cause gastric flatulence. 



Symptoms. — Suppose we have a case of gastric flatulence 

 from bolting the food. The following are the symptoms : 



1. Restlessness — the horse lies down, gets 



up soon, turns around ; the worse he 

 gets, the shorter time he lies down. 

 When tympanitis is present, he can- 

 not lie down. 



2. Mild colicky pains. 



3. Animal looks around, most often to the 



left. 



4. Trunk more or less distended. Flanks 



fuller than normal, but not very 

 tympanitic. The distension is more 

 under the ribs. In intestinal flatu- 

 lence the distension is more in the 

 flanks. 



5. Horse sweats. 



6. Eructations — positive evidence of gas- 



tric flatulence. It is accompanied by 

 more or less sound, wdiich may be so 

 slight that you cannot hear it without 

 putting the ear to the neck. These 

 eructations give the animal great re- 

 lief, but all cases do not eructate. 



7. Xausea — retching and painful vomition, 



especially in the horse. As a symp- 

 tom of the retching we get a spas- 

 modic contraction of the muscles of 

 the neck and breast the same as in 

 choke. Retching is a painful effort 

 to vomit without succeeding. 



8. Rapidly developing pervous prostration. 



9. Rapid breathing. 

 10. Expired air cold. 



