JadeWisc
Well-Known Member
Some of you may remember me posting about Chester having a wound.
I was wondering how on earth Chester had gotten the injury under his cheek last week. I treated it and it has been healing nicely. The pasture was clear though so how it happened remained a mystery to me.
Now Tex has come up with the same situation!
In the very same spot!
I determined it was from his headcollar while he was gazing!
I never leave headcollars on while my horses are tuned out as a rule, but they had just been turned out for the year and I was only leaving them out for short periods at first so it seemed reasonable to just leave them on.
I thought it would help if they were not wanting me to catch them and bring them back as the pasture is like the garden of Eden to them
anyhow, The headcollar on coupled with the fact that they were in a grazing position for several hours rubbed them raw it seems! This has never happened to me before! It appears that they were so into the lush fresh grass that they seemd oblivious to what they were doing to themselves!
I think it may just be my one Hamilton halter (headcollar) doing it as it has a buckle in that very spot and it does feel slightly scratchy on the metals edge. Chester had that halter on when his happened and Tex was waering that halter when his did.
Anyhow, all are out now with NO halters on and I am not going to be turning them out to graze with them on again! Maybe if I get some nice padded breakaway ones perhaps
Anyone else have this happen before?
btw...Chester must have been annoyed at his and rubbed it on a tree as his even had a small indent (minor puncture) type wound with his! The indent was up higher like it had been rubbed up and the hairloss and scrape was down where the buckle would be in a normal head position when grazing
I was wondering how on earth Chester had gotten the injury under his cheek last week. I treated it and it has been healing nicely. The pasture was clear though so how it happened remained a mystery to me.
Now Tex has come up with the same situation!
In the very same spot!
I determined it was from his headcollar while he was gazing!
I never leave headcollars on while my horses are tuned out as a rule, but they had just been turned out for the year and I was only leaving them out for short periods at first so it seemed reasonable to just leave them on.
I thought it would help if they were not wanting me to catch them and bring them back as the pasture is like the garden of Eden to them
anyhow, The headcollar on coupled with the fact that they were in a grazing position for several hours rubbed them raw it seems! This has never happened to me before! It appears that they were so into the lush fresh grass that they seemd oblivious to what they were doing to themselves!
I think it may just be my one Hamilton halter (headcollar) doing it as it has a buckle in that very spot and it does feel slightly scratchy on the metals edge. Chester had that halter on when his happened and Tex was waering that halter when his did.
Anyhow, all are out now with NO halters on and I am not going to be turning them out to graze with them on again! Maybe if I get some nice padded breakaway ones perhaps
Anyone else have this happen before?
btw...Chester must have been annoyed at his and rubbed it on a tree as his even had a small indent (minor puncture) type wound with his! The indent was up higher like it had been rubbed up and the hairloss and scrape was down where the buckle would be in a normal head position when grazing
