Bad Day with Vet and all 3 of our Horses!!!

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Had the vet out yesterday to Murphy and Spike vet ended up looking at Alee aswell and I went home in floods of tears.

Murphy 14 year old:-
Was due for his jabs thats all. He is semi retired due to sacro illiac problems. Vet gave him the once over as they do at jabbing time and his heart rate was racing (he is chilled with the vet nornally). She checked his temp and this was ok. Then she commented on how woolie he was already and how hot he felt. Next thing she is suggesting we get him tested for cushings!
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I was knocked back a tad as like I said he was only having his jabs and next thing he may have cushings. Anyway have decided to not have him tested at the mo, afterall he is semi retired and seems well in himself but we will obviously keep an eye on him!

Spike 5 year old:-
Came home from 4 weeks away being rebacked on thursday, we are chuffed to bits with him and really feel that he is going to turn into a really great horse. When he came home I trimmed up his feathers and found a really bad couple of patches of sunburn on his pasterns & coronet bands on both back legs. Having tried to clean it up we realised how sore he was so vet came sedated him and cleaned him up. He is now on Antibiotics and bute plus can only go out at night but is sound and generally in good health in every other way.

Aleeta 3 year old:-
Happened to mention to the vet that Alee had shot up behind and seemed to be struggling so had stopped her work for the time being. She asked for her to be trotted up and was concerened about her hind leg action. She is very wide in her hind legs although not wider than in front and has recently started swinging her hind legs out to the side when trotting. She also is struggling on her off side hind to step under when turning a tight circle in walk. Vet was concerned enough to ask for her to be bought into clinic for a full lameness work up and possible xrays
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. She is going on friday afternoon and I am beside myself with worry that something is seriously wrong.

So that was my day yesterday. Is it too much to ask that one day between me and OH we have 2 horses that we can ride out together on?

Please keep your fingers crossed for Alee on friday and if anyone has any experiencves of any of the above please let me know.

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1) Never had a vet do a full health check up at vaccination. lots of ours are woolley now as the weather seems to have confused them!!

2)Sounds quite drastic for sunburn!

3) A full lameness work up on a 3 year old?! Blimey!

Good luck with them all, hope it's a good news.
 
1) My thoght exactly - the vet is australian and it turns out has never had a winter in our country so hence beign suprised at the wooly coat. Murphy is over weight and unfit hence the high heart rate I suspect.

2) Sunburn has tunred into a mud fever type infection and is yellow and gunky. I needed antibiotics and vet won't prescribe without seeing horse?

3) Why are you suprised? Surely if she is lame then she needs to be sorted
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I really don't know she is my first youngster and I can only take the advice of my vet!

Unfortunalty I use 2 different vets, our local one for routine stuff anf one a bit further away fro more specialist things. This is where the 3 yaer old is going and I trust these vets far more than the local one that diagnosed her as having a problem.

Thanks for your reply
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Youngsters and growth spurts are certainly a grey area and it's aways best to errr on the side of caution. If she were mine I'd prob turn her away for a bit and monitor carefully before spending the money on intensive investigation- but you know your own horse best and if you trust the vet then go with her thinking.
 
Oh hun, sounds awful; try not to worry to much though. A lot of horses are really wooly at the mo seems to be the weather, our conne is ready for clipping, but I dont normally clip until November! The Sunburn will heal & good luck with your baby, at 3yo its prob nothing serious, they all have their problems at that age!
 
Thanks guys.
My initial thoughts were to turn her away but the vet has worried me so much that I couldn't rest without knowing for sure!!! I have decided anyway to turn her away till next year now but still get the specialist vet to check her over. I never had her vetted when I bought her last year as she was unhandled and this has always worried me. She has done quite well inhand showing this year and nothing has ever been said about her unusual gaite even at county level!
 
your day sounds horrendous just like mine a few days ago.
one horse had galloped down the field and run into an electic fence post and ripped himself open on his stomach and so had to go to the vets to have treatment. he stayed at the vets and early in the morning was taken away to a field for rehab. i went out in the morning to check other horses and one had got cast in the stable and gashed her head right across it and grazed her side and gashed her leg!!! i was horrified...so we took her to the vets and it was horrendous and the gash on her head was so deep and there was loads of blood and gunk and it was horrid...sorry for disgustingness! so she is now out of action and her leg is like a ballooon so i have had major traumas!!! can you believe it...two horses in 24 hours...at least not 3!!!
 
the 'looks like sunburn' on the 2nd horse is probably photosensidistion a couple of mine had had it this year soon as i took them back off the field they got it from they have healed up fine in a couple of weeks. it's very sore for them tho
 
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