Accident prone horses...are some more stupid than others?

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I have just about HAD it with Tex!


I have been pulling and pulling for this horse after his injury but I think it is just a matter of time for that gelding before major disaster strikes again!
We have him in a safe holding pen while he heals of all electric rope and safe posts. I went away one night and get a frantic call from my mother (who was staying at my house) that this horse tore down the whole pen and the side of my SOLID WOOD SHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I raced home to find the pen destroyed! He is ok and no more injuries, but this horse is a HANDFULL!!! I have never in my life had this probelm with any other horse. He is the type of horse that may only be safe in a 10 ft high round pen made of rubber and padding!

He is a notoroius jumper and has jumped out of very high fencing on many occasion! he is not fence savvy at all and if there is a way to get hurt he will find it! He has NO respect for electric and has been seen leaning over hot electric rope to eat on the other side! EVEN WHEN THERE IS AMPLE GRASS IN ACTUAL PADDOCK!

One time he even ran straight into a metal tube gate at a full gallop and bent in nearly in half! (no injury that time thank god!)

I love him and he is a very gentle, willing horse with tremendous potential but he is just not very smart when it comes to injuries.

Which leads me to my question before I go and re do an entire corral....................................................................

are some horses just accident prone more than others due to stupidity?
 
YES!!!

Harv is like that. He can find any little thing to hurt himself on, despite me combing the field for debris, broken fencing etc, etc. He too, has no real respect for electric fencing. If the grass is better on the other side, he is through it.

He's never ripped the side off a shed though!!!!
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Whoops.......sounds like he is. Yes I think some are just a bit stupid or more accident prone. Just like some of us really.

You get to the stage where you are just waiting for the next thing to happen.

Hope he grows out of it....but it could just be him !
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I'd say so. Lots of horses are incredibly stupid - they just don't think in the same way as us, or some of their peers.
 
Mickey was a nightmare when I first owned him (he came to me as a 4 yr old).

He used to jump out of EVERY paddock, even if there was a 5-bar gate in the way. One day he jumped out of a 5ft plain wire field. No one was at the yd at the time but they found him 30mins after they left - face down on the tarmac the other side, with his back legs caught in the wire. I don't think you could say he was stupid, because he waited totally still until he was cut free. Since then he's never ventured out of his paddock!!

He also was a nightmare to turn out with others, he would chase/hound them all over the place, ending up with plenty of kicks. He goes out alone now.

Apparently, before he came to me, he lived at a mill house where he used to cross the river to the pasture the other side (of his own accord).One day they got a call from the neighbours who said a coloured horse was swimming towards the weir!!

He seems to be much calmer and less adventurous as he gets older. Let's hope it stays that way
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your horse sounds exactly like one of ours, he passed a 5 stage vetting when we got him and since then he has been lame for so many different reasons.

he cut himself on day 1 and had to have an emergency tetanus injection.

he had a swollen pastern from galloping around like a loon, he needed to have rest in a small enclosure made out of electric fencing, he ran straight through it!

he god knows how managed to tear down a whole fence posts and wire about 200 ft long- the whole lot!!

he jumped a 5ft fence out of the field on xmas day and cut all of his back legs and had to have time off.

he had a splint last summer and needed the whole summer off.

he somehow managed to lose his front shoe and get it stuck on his back foot where one end was dug into the coronet band the other end stuck in his frog, he couldnt move, when we discovered him we just couldnt budge it and we had to call the fire brigade out to come and cut it off as the farrier and vet also had no idea how to remove it!!

just recently he galloped at full speed into a barbed wire fence and ripped the whole lot down, amazingly he was absolutely fine!

the list goes on, this are just a few of the many incidents.

if there is an accident to be had scout will have it!!

so its not just your horse that is accident prone!
 
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yikes about the barbed wire! How that incident came through injury free is a pure miracle!
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i saw it happen and i thought oh s***, hes probably ripped his legs to shreds and when i checked him i was amazed he was injury free!
 
That is the conclusion I have come to, my boy has a new scar everyday! Was going to get a body chart or the tack room wall but figured I didnt have the time to fill it in!
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ETS if there is a destructive spree happening he usually does that in front of my OH! Pulling gates off hinges, smashing through fences, galloping across newly laid turf etc etc!
 
definately yes! One of our neds, Millie, can be too stupid for her own good sometimes. She has literally ripped the area around her flank when ploughing past something, she didn't stop till at the other end of the field when she must of just realsied then! She has rubbed her head on a wall and cut above her eye...when there wasn't even anything to cut her eye on. She also once got upset about her friend leaving the field and ending up jumping on a trailer type thing and laming herself!
 
Definitely !! One of ours is always coming in with cuts and scratches - loads more than the others and he is white typically so they always look really bad!
 
After all the upset of another vet call out and box rest (plus a hefty bill)............I have come to the conclusion that Monty is just a total div!

My friends horse Mozart is exactly the same. Some horses just completely lack common sense. It drives me nuts!
 
Yes, some are just plain stupid which leads to injuries unfortunately!!

One of mine is a total dipstick. He's got a horrid over-reach type injury on the inside of a hind where he trod on himself..... duhh. And last night travelling back from a lesson in the trailer, after dropping off a friends horse - he went nuts in the trailer. We were only 3 minutes from home so we kept driving. Got home to find him hanging over the breast bar! He'd reared over the bloody thing and stood with his hind legs practically off the floor with stomach on the bar. Took 3 of us and about 20 mins to free him. Bloody thing! And his isnt the first time he's done this!! Although last time he managed to get his hind legs over too..... DO NOT ASK! Amazingly he hasn't got so much as a scrape from his trailer-escapades (touch wood). But I do just want to yell "WHY?!" at him when I find him looking surprised as he dangles over a bar!
 
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