Big vibes please.

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Sparkles

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We got woken up early this morning to a call saying our grey fella had bust out the field and shredded his hock open.

Taken straight to vets as it's bad and he's just going into surgery now for a joint flush at least and to see what they can do.

God knows what happened in the night to make him cause that much damage, but he's broken 3 sections of the fencing and snapped the wooden posts clean and all the wire is down.

Bless his heart, he wasn't stressing one bit and walked straight up onto the trailer [sods law the lorry didn't start after loading onto there!]. Other than moving yards, he's virtually never travelled in all 5 years of his life.
Vibes please. :'(
 
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Sometimes it nevers rains but it pours! After everything you guys have been through with losing wee Hughie, I really hope this guy pulls through and the op is a success.

Healing <<<vibes>>> & (((hugs))) to you all x
 
Thanks. Still no news yet. Boss rang them but couldn't get through to anyone down the stable team, so said he must still be in surgery.
 
Just an update....Vibes worked thankyou all!!!

Surgery went well and didn't pop one of his stitches at all. The wound was just over 6cm wide but managed to get it down to 1cm now. He's back home now, we picked him up finally today. He's dropped off all the weight we'd managed to put back on him after the virus he had earlier this year :( But he is sporting the biggest bandage ever possibly which he's very proud of! Vets said he wouldn't east anything whilst he was there which is unlike him, he's the biggest pig in the planet normally :( So he can eat to his hearts content now he's back hopefully, soppy sod.
He's on meds for the next week still and having his bandage re-done on monday, so shall see how the hock's looking then I guess :s
Fingers crossed for a full sound recovery for the horse who didn't have such a good prognosis over a week ago!
 
Great news:) Continued ((vibes)) for a quick and full recovery. They do like to worry us don't they!
 
Gosh, does make you wonder what caused such a reaction, also makes you wonder if sometimes they just know when your trying to help them.

Hope its something they can sort and nothing too nasty, sometimes injuries can look worse than they are and vice verca.

Lots Healing Vibes.
 
Tell me about it, he's in a big new grass, post and rail field with electric round it...so I don't know what on earth would have made him try and go through the fence with that much force that night [I mean, the field hadn't been grazed on at all and is literally to his knees, and he's such a piggy little horse when it comes to feed, and the other horse was fine, who is his inseperable best mate!]. When they opened him up, they found that much internal bleeding coming from every structure in the hock, that even ones from car accidents have had less!
So absolutely god knows what happened overnight.

He's back home and well. That's the main thing.

I'm never telling that horse he's being ridden again. He can be a pasture ornament his whole life if it stops him self harming!!!
 
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