Anyone else having run of bad luck with their horses?

[Shez]

Nothing serious but minor things one after another!

2 horses - with filled legs couple of weeks ago - vet said a virus had course of antibiotics now fine.

1 horse - suspected ringworm - picked him up after friend had him for summer who said she had treated for ringworm but not sure if was. Vet took scrapping and said not active

1 horse - re injured check ligament after having summer off. Next door neighbour free jumped her ponies in our school next to him and he galloped round!

1 horse - suspensary injury - not lame but had him scanned because he wasn't jumping

3 horses - need farrier badly as our farrier fell over and banged his head badly so now 3 weeks overdue. don't want to do much with them until done

1 lost shoe - no farrier

1 has put her pelvis out - back lady hasn't got back to me. I rang her 2 weeks ago.

1 horse - 3 year old i'm having to send away to be backed because my OH who is perfectly capable of doing it is bl**dy useless.

Now I have got a ringworm on my hand - bloody great - luckily none of the horses have - being so careful

 

[amandathepanda]

Me too - dressage horse fractured splint bone just as we had sent out entries off to qualify him for the regionals.

Other dressage horse had a horrendous foot absess which took 6 months to sort out(!) and as a result came back into work like a thug - he is just coming right now but it is too late to get to the regionals

Having finally decided to part with one of my boys, I sent him away to my trainer (as I'm too soft and couldn't bear to sell him myself) to be sold. He has now done something to his back that doesn't want to come right, so having come to terms with selling him he is now coming back home to have his back sorted - which will mean I'll then feel guilty and not sell him.

Ex-racer now seems to have a low grade forelimb lameness so need to get him booked in for a lameness workup.

21 year old's COPD has got considerably worse despite being on haylage and is going to have to be retired.

Roll on spring when life gtes easier!!!

 

[jojoebony]

Yep - 3 PTS in last 3 years, 2 in the last 3 months - 1 old boy (but injury related not age related and one youngster with severe DJD and navicular).
New youngster severley damaged SDFT tendon just two weeks after I got him on who knows what - a puncture wound just above hock with the best fencing ever.
He then got lots of severe infections in wound.
Was gelded and got infection.
Got skin complaint on back legs.
Suspected tetanus, he is stiff and not eating.
Now refusing to eat of drink again and very stiff all over.
Went lame on other back leg last week.
Scan on Friday showing things healing well but yesterday hunt came by without informing us, little man went mental and has damaged tendon again.
Vet now coming out to blood test and do another lameness workup.
Oh and a vet's bill for the last three months of 2.5k (I'm not insured).
Forget bad luck running in 3s!!!

Jo

 

[suestowford]

Well I thought I was until I read the above posts! Now my piddly bit of bad luck seems like nothing compared to those.

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

Autumn 2006:One PTS a year ago with broken leg.
One damaged Suspensory Lig last nov- box rested til he was PTS with colic on New Years.
Last Dec- New horse-J- had to have a broken tooth investigated(Vetting missed it- dentist doing check up didnt)though nothing was done except antibiotics
Thought we were through the dramas but obviously our hunting is cursed because:
Autumn 2007 - J went 1/10th lame. after full vet investigation, xrays etc all that was found was a nasty bit of thrush in a deep frog cleft.
Then when the farrier came he found huge corns- had to shoe longer to support the foot, then he pulled off two shoes in 24 hours- luckily farrier is a saint and got it sorted same day!
Then J managed to get tangled in Barbed wire on a bridleway- got away with minor cuts
Now today- while vet was doing annual jabs i said "while your here (vets love that one-NOT!!!) J has badder breath than normal"- Vet has a feel - makes me sniff some foul feed he found stuck in the tooth - EEUUUWWW- now J has joint appointment with vet & dentist being organised - vet said something about an angled drill...

AAAaarrrggghhh

 

[ticobay831]

OH Yes
this year has been a nightmare for me, ill be glad when its over, its just been one thing after another

I wouldnt even know where to start making a list

Debs x

 

[squirtlysmum]

Blimey this makes me feel so much better that I'm not the only horse owner who is not having much fun.
I've had five years of a nightmare with my boy, I bred him from my lovely mare and when he was born he was 23 days late then very sick and had to be bottle fed, then had retained meconium, then colic, also had umbilical hernia. Mummy ned then got metritis and subsequent laminitis then cushings which gave her the inability to fight infection, then at two Wills had colic followed by major surgery, then lost mummy horse through massive infection in her head, then my boy bucked me off and broke my back and he was diagnosed with kissing spine and had surgery for that last Dec, and on Monday he went through the wire stud fencing and re arranged his entire near fore armpit with a 6" deep 8" long wound, but other than that no problems really!!!