Arghhh flippin cows, now lame hoss

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So the neighbouring farmer put some cows in the field next to thelivery yard. My young horse, Jay is the other side of the hedge from them. I got a call at work today to say he had broken thro the elec fence and was charging around with another two horses, scared of the cows, and hopping lame on one back leg! By the time YO and YM caught him he could not put the leg to the floor! They checked him all over but could find nothing and so i decided not to have the vet until I could see him for myself this afternoon. By the time I got there he was walking on it but is lame. Felt it from top to bottom squeezing gently and nothing obvious, no flinching, no heat. I guess he has pulled something.

He is due to got to the winter field on sunday for turn away til end Feb. i don't know whether to take him on sunday and keep and eye on it and hope that the rest will heal it, or leave him at home for a week or two for it to heal, but then take him to the winter field risking him gallivanting around when I release him and he might pull it again.

Will see what he's like tomorrow. When I left the farm he was still snorting at the cows and staying the furthest away that he could!
 
Get the vet, most certainly don't turn him away without knowing what it is-if he's trashed a fence he could have done a fair bit of damage, a non wt bearing horse should have seen the vet straight away i have to say.
 
Is this for real?? Your horse "could not put the leg to the floor" and you don't think he needs the vet????? poor horse
 
Initially, when it happened he could not put his foot to the floor, i was at work and not there. When I got there he was putting his foot to the floor and walkng on it, albeit a bit tentatively. So i left hm overnight and he had the vet the next day (yesterday). Vet says he has 'pulled a muscle' and to rest him for 6 weeks in the field. He is not going to the turn away field, he is staying at the livery yard where I can keep a better eye on him and have more facilities should the need arise.

Today, he is better still and is walking almost normally, but it obviously is not right yet, the vet says time will heal.

I am not in the habit of leaving my horses without veterinary attention, but as I said the YO and YM were with him and I had to take what I was told on the phone. I did say to them to call the vet there and then if they thought it necessary, which they didn't. But i called the vet the following morning.
 
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