Are anybody elses horses as accident prone as mine?!

[SS.89]

Got down to the yard this morning to get toby in ready for the dentist, brought him in didn't notice anything untoward about him, he was his normal fidgetty self! Was brushing him over when he had a horizontal cut on the inside of his off fore right under his knee.

Now toby is no normal horse! I seriously come down at least once a week to find a new graze, scratch, cut, puncture and i'm really surprised its never been anything more serious. Im very lucky that it hasn't *touch wood*.

Now he is only 4, and he is the most gangly TB you have ever seen. He hasnt quite grown into his 7foot legs yet !! When he does run round his field he looks like a baby giraffe so I presume he's either over reaching some what rotten or catching himself as there is physically nothing in his field he could get caught on. No barbed wire, No nails as its electric fencing, there are thistles but they wouldnt cause much damage so I am beside myself as to how he does it!

He's in over reach boots literally 24/7 as he used to pull shoes nearly every 2 weeks - luckily this has now stopped! He's now got turnout socks on overnight and when winter comes and he's in at night he will certainly have them on in the day.

Is anyone elses horse as accident prone as mine !?

SS x

 

[Honey08]

Our big ginga is like that! Drives me mad. He gets stuck in the fence at least twice a month, and yesterday managed to eat the plastic flowers decorating a XC fence in our field, despite there being lush grass everywhere and him wearing a grazing muzzle with a hole smaller than the flowers! I hope he spat them out. He also ate the straw from the bale jumps! He is 17h - you'd think he was a shetland!

 

[SS.89]

It must be the ginga ninja gene !! Ha.

SS x

 

[caitlineloise]

Feel your pain, our 'Lovely' TB mare has a new cut every week.

I'm sure she just goes out of her way to injure herself in the field. Never kicks from field mates etc. All self inflicted from hooning around like an idiot and catching herself.

 

[faith123]

Mine is just recently!

Normally just small grazes (which always bleed lots!)

A cut on her back fetlock is just healing (after a month - this must have been self inflicted!) on wednesday she came in having ripped off a shoe and taking a chunk of her sole with it!

She is also a ginge..... and a gangly TB!

 

[itsonlyme]

Unfortunately, i am also a member of the "my vet thinks i have munchausen by proxy" clique!

We owned Murphy for 8 months before he was attacked in the field, breaking a leg and receiving several servere wounds.
The leg needed surgery.
He coliced.
The leg needed skin grafts.
He then developed arthritis in the hock of that leg.
7 months of box rest, but he came right.

Then he cut his fetlock badly on barbed wire. Que mahoosive infection!

Then laminitis
Cushings disease
He didn't make it.

Molly hasn't been too bad - just a DDFT injury, which has been a constant problem for the last 3 years. Oh, and a couple of colics!

Dolly has just been diagnosed with a sacroiliac injury.
I'm also suspicious of Cushings in here.

And then there's Mo, who's just in a league of her own...

3 colics
Torn lateral digital extensor tendon
Torn Check liagment
Fractured right hind leg
Fractured left hind leg!!!!!
Cushing's disease
Insulin resistance

It's not even like we've owned her for a long time!

And then between the 3 of them, they're always coming in with various scrapes from the field. God knows what they do all day!

I shouldn't have horses - i'm cursed!

 

[Blackwijet]

Yup - the one I sort of share is a self harmer. Ethel is rather "special" She's 18hh + in stables that are converted piggeries so about 20 foot long and about 15 foot wide so mahoosive amounts of room. However, she gets cast on a regular basis. not only is she 18hh+ she's rather long and leggy and a bit stiff in the back end (shiverer) and finds getting up and getting down for a roll a bit of a palaver so when's she's down for a roll she makes the most of it and ends up stuck - doesn't panic just lays there looking at you. Constantly grazing her boney (sp?) hips even when rugged and she has to wear overreach boots upside down to protect the front of her fetlock as when she goes down for a roll she gets so far and then collapses taking most of the weight on her fetlock joints. Over a period of time she gets a nasty open sore but the upside down o'reach boots works a treat - I call them her Nora Batty's She does look a bit odd in them tho! Despite all her issues she's a fantastic horse that loves life so both of us adapt to each others wonkiness