I am so gland to here that he pooped, is there anymore gut sounds? When one of my horses coliced like that many years ago, my mom and I would take a large towel and put up under his belly and on the count of three, both of us would pick straight up. like we were trying to pick him up by his belly. My horse would moan and groan, but he acted like it was such a release. It would take us doing that about 4 or 5 times and he would poop or poot which ever was closer I guess. and yeah I would always rub on his belly, like you are, he loved that.