Our colicy experiance with Blue our horse

Yesterday evening, Mom noticed that Blue our Walkaloosa was not eating his hay, which is a definate sign that something is wrong with a horse. Blue was laying down, so Mom clucked to him, trying to make him get up. He finally did, but the leg that he was laying on was stiff and sore. I immediately thought of Colic, so since I was busy with Dinner preperations, Dad walked him around the pasture. Blue did not want to walk and just wanted to paw the ground, lay down, and roll. If a horse is colicing, these things mean that it is in pain. We took turns walking him around and around the field. Blue also had bulging knots in the stomach portion near his flank and we couldn't hear anything moving or gurgling inside. He was stopped up! At ten p.m., we gave him a small amount of hay and water. When he began chewing, it began his intestines working again. We started being able to hear some gurgling. We couldn't give him much hay as that would just make the problem worse, so we gave him a small amount of hay every once in a while. This morning, he was walking around and wanting to eat more, so we spread a small leaf of hay around the pasture to keep him having to move. We are hoping and thinking that he is past the danger part. Praise God!!