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i have sent you a pm my daughter bought him when he was 5 months old x

hi all good news the vet came out today and we had a trot up sound intermittently 1/10 lame. he thinks she would have been sound on an even surface which my drive isnt that, my horse is to have a larger pen increasing over the next 6 weeks to 10 by 30 meters then over the 6 week after that to...

thankyou amandap x i will post how it goes x

well week 9 and looking good i think, i have been able to put her back in her pen for 3/4 of an hour sun, mon and today with no major tantrums and the leading has been good only a slight buck today and 2 strides of trot, i know you can't tell alot with only two strides but it looked ok to me and...

hi baily , i know what you mean as in vets advice,as yours had a cast and mine didn't, i think ours our being treated differently because mine doesn't go into the joint, my vet said that on further xrays they can tell if healing is taking place, ie if the fracture is fuzzy or if the crack is...

week 8, well 9 days in stable only going from day stable to night stable. had shoe changed last friday , and she seemed a bit sore for a few strides back to the stable but sound again within a few steps today she is well up for anything and was a total cow on lead rein rearing etc, tried to...

well week 7, not such a good week due to acrobatics in a small pen {and it is amazing what they can do in a small pen} my horse is now in her stable 24/7. apart from trying to kill me getting her to her pen the horse is ok, i did think she was getting used to the stable pen routine but not so...

week 6, good signs at the mo, walking with heel down first and when turning on the fractured foot she shows no signs of lameness or pain, we have had a few rearing fits of temper when going either to her pen or spare stable but she is a horse and wants out. she is only going in her pen for 20...

well it's 5 weeks today since she saw the vet, and all is going well i think ,she turns around in either direction without limping or favoring either foot, she has only been in her pen twice this week just for a roll and stretch for about 10 mins each time, the weather has been awful, i don't...

just an update for anyone else who want to compare notes, we are into week 4 now and i must admit due to weather she has been in the stable more this last week and only been in the pen twice, she seems ok in walk , had a few lame steps on monday (today is weds) and heat in her foot on monday but...

sorry for those not understanding, punctuation spelling and grammer not my best subject , just trying to help someone who is or may become in my boat,keeping horses in pens or stabled is a right pain, to top it off i now got to take my sons horse to vets for a scan on tendon on tues. The horse...

hi all i have another thread under intermitant lameness cause that is what it was for 12 weeks so i am goint to start from the begining for people that have it happening now or god forbid have it happen to them in the future. here we go on dec 3rd 2012 my horse came in lame that lame we couldn't...

hi all i am going to start a new thread for this under pedal bone fracture as altho there is some research to be done i cant find any forams giving detailed rehab so for the sake of someone starting to go thru this process or for any one in the future i am going to start again to make it easier...

hi all just an update in case anyone is interested in pedal bone fractures,well we are in to week 3 of box rest and pen rest we have to walk 20 yards to the pen from the stable door, she has had her egg bar shoe on with clips 3 weeks today and is already walking sound to and from her pen...

hi all just an update we had more x rays today , and the vets did one at a different angle and guess what she has a pedal bone fracture, which i am told is better than soft tissue damage,at last i have found out what is wrong and i would like to thank all of you that have repied to my thread and...