b'A look at 14 kinds of equine colic and their prognosesWhat TypeCOLIC Is It?of F lank-watching or -biting, pawing, trying to roll, an elevated heart rate, a lack of gut sounds or bowel movements. While these signs and others are pretty clear, common indicators your horse is colicking, what they dont tell you is the type of abdominal pain hes experiencing. Within that cav-ernous abdomen are a number of organs, with which a variety of things can go wrong. A piece of intestine can twist, a foreign object or lump of ingested mate-rial can cause a blockage, and infectious organisms can inflame the gut. Depending on a colics cause, treatment steps and prognoses can vary widely. So in this article well break these cases down by type nonstrangulating, strangulating, and inflammatory. We hope you wont be faced with this potentially life-threatening condition, but if you are youll have a better under-standing of what your veterinarian is describing and the road that lies ahead.10January 2020The Horse|TheHorse.comColic USE.indd 10 12/4/19 3:27 PM'