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| | Coarse roughage | | Coarse roughage |
| | Dehydration | | Dehydration |
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| | ==Clinical Signs== | | ==Clinical Signs== |
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| | + | Slwo onset mild colic |
| | + | Reduced defaecation |
| | + | Faeces hard, dry and mucus-covered because of delaed transit |
| | + | Heart rate mildly elevated during painful episodes but often normal |
| | + | Colic signs typically well controlled with analgesics but become increasingly more severe and refractory if impaction not resolved |
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| | ==Diagnosis== | | ==Diagnosis== |
| | ===Rectal examination=== | | ===Rectal examination=== |