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i would say that's a classic spavin symptom... did she have them im both hocks?? maybe they are changing and they are affecting her differently now. they were the first sign i noticed in my gelding that turned out to have spavins....he would change leads and pick up canter on wrong leg

he is no different company or alone.... tho not many want to hack out with me as he walks so bloody quickly i leave everyone behind and have to keep waiting for them. not exactly a relaxing sun mooch.

well that is the question i just don't know how much he can tolerate. i take him in the school every now and then and ask for a bit of long and low etc but then if you ask for an outline he doesn't feel quite right but hack him out on good ground and he feels amazing so i think the surface...

well interestingly one of the issues i have with him is he appears to be v sensitive to feed etc. wrong types of feed or chaff or hay or haylage sends him loopy so have to be careful there so currently fed on nout!!!. so maybe you make a valid point!

i suppose i kinda expected him to just mooch out like he used to.... half of me thinks this was how he was supposed to be but the spavins had been giving him low grade pain. he is just so rude sometimes

he has been back haking for about 6 months about twice a week. his saddle is spot on as i have spent sooooo much getting this right as you say he had major back problems from the spavins too. he has had new saddle and this had made the world of difference. i sometimes think pain but he doesnt...

i agree with you gee gee but i am not sure his joints are up to it. he is out 10 hours a day in winter and 24/7 summer. in a field with grass summer and winter. i moved to an expensive yard so he could get loads of turn out for his joints

have to say i don't like my horse much at the moment. we are not getting on well at all really. he is rising 9 and was bought 3 yrs ago as a competiton horse (nothing major fancy, just a nice all round fun horse) he is ish and about 15.2 so nothing massively complicated. the major reason for...

the thing is with spavins are they aren't that all easy to diagnos. some horses show typical symptoms and can be diagnosed with a simple x ray and others are more complex. thats what happened in our case. various vets looked at various x rays and all came up with different diagnosis. he...

had similar problems and after 3 vet referrals, 6000 quid of diagnostics horse was eventually diagnosed with hock spavins. he too was fine to hack at the time, sound on lunge and in field.

diet changed suddenly ish. picked up a bag of competition energy alfalfa genuinely not realising and he has been getting scoop and a half a day for about a month. he was v sharp at old yard before i left but could deal with it there as knew the hacking/yard and just put it down to high spirits...

so i moved my horse 10 days ago to a new yard much closer to home with great faciliites so i can get my butt in gear and start riding more. previously he was prob being hacked out once a week in walk and that's about it due to various reasons. done nothing really for a couple of years due to...

hmm. think something like hi fi lite would be better!!

due to the weather and me being at a yard miles front home.he is lucky if he was being ridden once a week so prob not even light work. just picking him up now and he is so usually sharp. tbh he doesn't need any feed as such so will give him a handful of basic chaff instead

lol. prob why i keep ending up on the floor then!