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A hay ball might be an option maybe? I’ve never used one but someone at my yard has one and it looks interesting!

Wishing you all the best for the surgery and box rest, following with interest as also looking at a period of box rest for my big lad.

Thank you so much!xx

Aw thank you.. flippin horses eh..! it’s reassuring to have the perspectives from others who have faced similar decisions and good to know that my gut feeling about what to do next aligns with what others would do, if that makes sense.

Yes that’s her! She is fantastic, isn’t she? Such a lovely lady and so willing to share her knowledge.

Thank you so much BBP, that is so helpful. I think we are in a good place rehab-wise with the support of the chiro vet, she is really rehab focused and really proactive in keeping up to date on the latest best practice. The thought of surgery still terrifies me but I think it’s our best option...

Thanks so much Elf - that is really important and I think mentally we are there, as in we know it’s going to be a long slog to get the best result. We’re really lucky to have access to a clinician (not our primary care vet) who practiced as a vet, trained as a chiro and really specialises in...

There’s stacks of jumping/xc events, 2 phases and derbys etc but the full ODE seems to be a rarity now. Dressage Ireland have also recently introduced some fairly tricky rules around how dressage judges are police checked which is impacting on aff dressage up here too, not sure if it’s a DI...

It’s interesting to see how things are unfolding atm. I’m in no position to event this year anyway - and I’m not ever going to set the eventing world on fire. Over here, we have much fewer in the way of unaff ODEs - we often have 2 phase events, but there is maybe less conflict between...

Thanks so much BBP and muddy_grey, it’s good to hear your direct experiences of similar types of thing. I think we will probably go the surgery route- on MP’s advice I’ve asked them for a detailed estimate so we can just make sure we are in a position to proceed etc.

Thanks so much everyone for your insights and experiences, it is really valuable. I’m so gutted for our big lad, he’s the sweetest, funniest eejit and just a lovely soul, would be lost without him!

Might be lucky and have a wee spin on my friend’s little mare, aside from that no plans sadly! Bit of an update on my boy here - any insights welcomed. https://forums.horseandhound.co.uk/threads/ddft-injury.819437/

No no thank you so much for sharing that! Just as important to us as rehabbing the injury is making sure we give him the best opportunities to be the best he can be overall; it’s something we had been working on with our chiro vet as he is a big horse and quite weak behind – we’d been making...

As some of you folks know already, our lovely big horse has been having some issues of late. As a bit of a timeline, just to give full context: 6th March he pulled a shoe; with hindsight we think this might have been the start of our issues. He was sound at the time but farrier did comment that...

Ahhh @Michen you and Bog are just a joy to watch - a real partnership in action! It’s just fabulous!

I will choose to take Bog as a reference to the geographical feature and not the type that has a flush 🤣

Made it down for our appt - 8am at a clinic almost 3 hours away, so a 4am alarm… dropped him off, went to a nice tack shop, wandered round some shops, had a nap in a Tesco car park then collected him again, back at the yard for about 6pm. Should get report back on Monday or Tuesday.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend, whether competing, hacking, or somewhere in between. We are off at silly o’clock tomorrow for MRI.

Ahh I hope so… that would be ideal wouldn’t it!

So initially she felt it was around fetlock initially based on what she could see and a bit of swelling etc, but given we are now quite a few weeks in to this whole saga she thinks next logical step is MRI - reasoning behind that is that he is basically exactly the same as at the start (and that...

Ahhh I maybe didn’t update due to head frazzlement- can’t flippin remember now lol! Yeah so the lowest down block didn’t really do anything - if nothing else he was actually a wee bit worse - then second one he was tons better. Flippin horses eh.. stood in his stable now and could just cry...

Blaaaaah posting in here because I need to rant / moan. Two weeks today since the big guy last saw vet and he’s still not right - she’s booking him in for MRI and based on how he is, and how he has responded to nerve blocks etc - is concerned about the soft tissues in his feet - I’m struggling...

En route home from Millstreet now. Bit of a drive ahead 😂 Lovely morning watching some of the xc and the 4* sj. The sj was great, the course was tricky and twisty - some super riding but not many clears! Laura C was last to go and was sitting on her dressage score, she could have afforded...

It was a great day! We were very excited to see Laura C as well. We saw her both at the start and at the end, her horse was still full of beans and looked like he would happily go round again.

Ahh scats, I am sorry to hear that. Hope the cat is being more supportive now x We had a great day out at Millstreet today to watch the xc, some fantastic riding over a technical course! So exciting to see some top names in the mix.

Oh no! Hope it’s just a wee tweak and easily fixed. Fingers crossed x

Sneaking in here first since I think for a lot of us, the weekend starts tomorrow?! This week I’ve been doing a bit of this again: Monday did 15 mins walking in arena, yesterday did 20. Day one he felt a bit uppity but was totally chilled last night. Going to do a bit of road walking...

Right now I am sitting on the ground in the field, while the big lad has his first proper taste of grass in weeks. Bliss ☺️ He can have half an hour or so out, as much as we like our vet I don’t really want to add any other ailments to the mix 🤦🏻‍♀️

Heheh I was wondering too! Not that I have much to share atm 🤣 Going to have another spin on friends youngster tomorrow, that should be good fun. Took big horse to vet on Tues. Nerve blocked and seem to have pinpointed the area that’s hurting, same place as we’ve thought from the outset which...

Had a lovely ride on a friend’s horse; she’s a 5yo IDx, gorgeous little mare, very eager to please but easily distracted! She’s only about 15.2 so much smaller than the big yoke (he’s 17hh) yet somehow I look smaller on her than him 🤣