Recent content by occasional_rider

Oh my goodness. I had forgotten about OCD. Yes you're right with his breeding that's very likely. And the outcome is not good? I heard that maybe there's an operation to remove chips - is it not often successful?

Hi sorry this might be a long post. I was given a 17hh oldenberg youngster with dodgy confirmation 4 years ago, with the understanding he may never come sound but that he may become a happy hacker. He has been intermittently lame for the whole time. Last Feb I had him properly checked over by...

Whew. Thanks for the advice. X ray discovered an entire horseshoe nail buried in his frog, cue emergency hospital trip but looks like the nail may well have been there for bloody ages and it hadn't quite reached the tendon so bursa is ok. Bloody hell!

Yes he's out with animalintex/vetwrap/tape or hoof boot depending on how long the hoof boot lasts! I had his front feet X rayed recently for his front abscess and the output was rather disappointing which makes me loath to pay for another one but I guess no news is good news. What's the...

I'm assuming kept in to keep clean. I did ask for X rays but they were booked out all week so I'll have to try again next week. I guess it's useful?

My young horse is having a hell of a ride with abscesses. He's had this one in his back foot, caused by a hoof split in the autumn, since early Dec. It burst out through the coronet band and I poulticed it with animalintex/hoof boot and it seemed to heal okay. Boot off. Then last week he was...

Hello I am hoping to leverage your expertise on the problems the horse I ride is facing. He had a terrible injury to his hind leg where he snapped a tendon (?) one that wasn't exactly required - possibly an extensor tendon? Anyway initial vet advice was that he'll never be sound again, second...