Argh!- anyone else got a self-harming TB?!

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My horrendously accident prone TB is getting me down. :(
I love him to pieces, but omg, pretty much every day he gets some kind of little injury!! Luckily nothing serious so far, thank god *touches wood frantically* but since this time last week, he has had: a scrape on his chest from skidding into the fence when hooning round his paddock getting overexcited, a rub from a boot (NO idea how! It has apparantly fitted up til now! :( ), a scratch on his side from a sharp stone hitting him when we were cantering on a track, a huge (but luckily not really too bad) bite on his bum from a fieldmate, and today: a chunk missing from the inside of his offside hind hoof, on the coronet band, caused by, again, racing round his paddock (this time because two people on ponies cantered past along the fenceline) and cutting into himself behind with his nearside hoof. :mad: Lots of blood, but, again, luckily not serious.
Can't see any way of avoiding these kinds of injuries, other than completely booting up whenever he steps outside his stable. :( (and maybe just wrapping him totally in cotton wool, head to toe :p )

I am at my wit's end! He is a fab boy and I wouldn't change him..just wish he didn't self harm so much :mad: :o

Oh and just remembered..he also has a little cut above his eye, from spooking whilst in the middle of rubbing his face.. :rolleyes:
 
Believe me I know how you feel! My tb is just getting over somehow skinning his hindlegs on the fencing 2 weeks ago! One of his hind fetlocks is still a bit puffy and I think he's given himself a windgall. The most recent in a long line of self harm incidents and I've only had him for just over a year! He regularly takes chunks out of his head by spooking as we are leaving his stable and throwing his head up! He can't just loose a shoe, he has to wrench half his hoof off and make himself lame for a couple of days. But in spite of it all I love him to bits and wouldn't part with him for all the tea in china lol.
 
I share and feel your pain too! :(

I wish my boy would consider picking his feet up over poles more consistancy too :/ Bless him.
 
Binky01, at least yours doesn't feel the need to give them a foot of room (makes a long line of trotting poles very interesting, my RI remarked 'gosh I've never seen a horse's legs go in so many different directions all at once' :rolleyes: she also said his pole technique is 'acrobatic' :p ). But to be fair he hasn't done much polework so should settle into it (prays).

EG:

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Actually this one is fairly sedate in comparison with the usual:

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Gotta love em though, and I agree I would not change him (well maybe give him slightly thicker skin and a slightly larger brain) :D
 
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Mollya - just laughed for ages reading about the comments from your riding instructor. The trotting pole photo is just hilarious. I've got an accident prone elderly TB. Most of his body has insurance exclusions on it now. In fact I think only one leg is actually insured.
Wouldn't change him for anything, and in fact bought another one a few weeks ago, and can you believe it, she has some weird sinus infection/abscess which has needed scope and x-rays etc, so yet another insurance claim to be submitted!
 
Seriously don't complain about over doing poles! LOL. Can you bottle a little bit of it and send it to mine? :p

Some won't watch us jump on our real 'non' SJ days as he can be that 'unique'. Bless him. He knows the poles don't bite for sure!

If he ever stopped and ran out or spooked over a jump, I'd much prefer that to just going through it if all else fails.

Though tbf, he's been doing 1'20's lately and gate jumping so he's being good :)

LOL.
 
I know EXACTLY how you feel and mine is a warmblood! She specialises in 1 major injury per year though:
3 years ago did both hind suspensories, box rest with restricted and controlled (or not) exercise
2 years ago after 2 weeks of turnout in her pen vets said turn out as usual. With acp she still charged around slipped and went through/under the fencing-15 stitches in her elbow back on box reat for 3 weeks
last year got her headcollar caught on the partition pin in my boss's lorry at an event-smashed her eye against the window smashing the glass and ending up being sedated and having her eyelid stitched back together before being allowed to travel home
tomorrow she is heading off to the vets to have a front leg scanned as they suspect she may have strained her check ligament.

All of these injuries self inflicted btw-if there was a way to wrap them in cotton wool then I'd do it!!!
 
Rebelzmum said:
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Wouldn't change him for anything, and in fact bought another one a few weeks ago, and can you believe it, she has some weird sinus infection/abscess which has needed scope and x-rays etc, so yet another insurance claim to be submitted!
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Oh dear- you are obviously a glutton for punishment :D :p

Glad it made you laugh, he also jumps- and his attitude is similarly wayward with showjumps :p He feels that an ordinary course of jumps can be livened up hugely by taking off at a different place every time, eg:

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:D :D
 
Binky01 said:
Seriously don't complain about over doing poles! LOL. Can you bottle a little bit of it and send it to mine? :p

Some won't watch us jump on our real 'non' SJ days as he can be that 'unique'. Bless him. He knows the poles don't bite for sure!

If he ever stopped and ran out or spooked over a jump, I'd much prefer that to just going through it if all else fails.

Though tbf, he's been doing 1'20's lately and gate jumping so he's being good :)

LOL.
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Hmm I would be pretty chuffed too if me and Cashy could get over 1'20s and gates :D Having said that, he does eye up the 4ft9 fencing when he's galloping in his field...i just shut my eyes, pray he won't jump it, and swear to myself that I will get something a bit saner next time! :D

Well, feel free to bottle some of Cash's spooking, running out and refusing too..we have plenty :rolleyes:
 
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Good god, I can see why you are sitting "upright" over that fence!
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That's not me actually, it was when I went to see him for the first time..but when he does that with me there's less 'sitting upright' and more 'clinging on for dear life' :D
 
I know how you all feel. It must be something about tbs. Charlie came in from the field last week covered in barbed wire cuts to his legs. All were superfical. He was also off to a show on the same day. Every day he comes in from the field with some form of minor scrape or injury. Providing he keeps them superfical, we will be ok!
 
Yep my TB is the same, only had him a month and i think most days he has come in with a little scape, cut or something alone those lines, hoping like mad he will sort himself out as he's stable kept 24/7 for 4 out of 7yrs so fingers crossed its just all exitcement. Tried booting him up and then started to get hot in them so took them off, TB's who would have them!
 
Yeah he's worth his weight bless him :D Kids can hack him out, I take him galloping and jumping bareback, fun rides, shows, leave him tied up, won't really know he's there half the time as he's just a quiet dude really :)


Edited : Woah. Sorry for the video suggestions that come up on there! Apparantly having the tag 'Bust' and 'Bustie' doesn't bode well with the lovely depths of youtube!!!!! Sorrryyyy!
 
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Lol thanks helly86 :D

Binky01, I am hoping that by the time I'm finished with him Cash will be able to do all that too (let's face it, after a couple of years with me, he won't be able to help being idiot-proof ;) )

PMSL about the suggestions, I genuinely hadn't noticed! :D
 
The only way I have found to keep a tb safe from itself is to work them hard :) basically so they are too tired to do anything other than graze :)
 
Hmmm have tried that, but he is like the duracell bunny with suicidal tendencies :p rode for 2 and a half hours today, and i was a lot more tired than him! :D
 
no exactly how u feel lol mine came in with a puncher wound to his back leg which took months to properly heal due to it being infected and deep ... also dun a splint, chipped a bone, came in with barb wire cuts all down back legs, sliced knee open, skinned his side the other day, kicked himself and well more barb wire cuts!
 
We do! We do!

We have had him almost two years, so far we have had one colic op, sacroids, 2 cut legs, bad back, behaviour problems (just for good measure) and then on Sunday puntured foot...

Never ever again will I buy a tb, love him to bits but very expensive and stressful. Our other horse is the complete opposite!

Completely understand, many times almost reduced to tears by the constant injuries...glad I am not alone!
 
I think they all self harm! part of being a TB!

Definitely need to invest in some rolls of bubble wrap, it's the only way! :D
 
Oh I gotta get in on this one... coronet damge, barbed wire up his back leg, skinned his back hock, lower right shoulder, cheeks, top of his bum, above his left eye, play bite marks all over, ripped a shoe off getting all excited over a small jump (now has boots on the rear too now)... and that's just the last month. Doesn't stop him hoolying around at all. To top it all he's got an old skin complaint that's flared up again all over his back, flanks and part of his neck and top of his bum.

I feel your pain Mollya... and his :)
 
Mine is a WB, but yes, she is a hazard to herself.... and others around her at times, as my scars can testify. :rolleyes: Still love her to pieces though! :D
 
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