Bloody Horses!

[JacksonBrown]

I live in NZ, and am lucky enough to keep my horses at home.

I seem to have an issue whereby I collect horses, that usually go lame with one obscure injury or illness or another. (I swear its not me!).

So love of my life horse (JacksonBrown), has a weird hind end lameness that no vet can figure out. He has been xrayed from Foot to stifle, and whilst there are a couple of small changes in the hock on one leg, its not enough to cause him the issues he has. As a result - he has been retired since 2009. GAH.

Now new boy, beautiful big TB. I had such high hopes for him in the show ring. Beautiful nature as well. He had a couple of abcesses that kept him out of work a while, and then he got badly grass affected (This is a well known thing in NZ, but as a brit in 2008 when I moved here I had no idea). He would rub his nose alot, bit spooky, and generally overreact to anything at any point with no warning! So he went onto the minerals, came off clover and rye grass, and was fed the SOS supplement to get him back to normal. Normality resumed. Began riding him, and he was a peach. Moved him to a big comp yard near me for winter so i had floodlights, and ****** me he went badly grass affected again. So yarded him, and back on the supplements. (this was my fault I didnt check to see if clover). Anyway, comes right on his SOS, but is still a dick to lunge. Squealing, bucking, kicking out, and going disunited and then "Skipping" forward one hind leg coming into trot.

(Well done if you are still reading )

So now my Question, any thoughts on what this may be? Vet is out on Wednesday, and I will get her to x ray the hock etc, as have nasty feeling I'm dealing with a bone spavin.

 

[SEL]

I have a PSSM horse - so grass is the enemy for me too. (was your first horse with the weird lameness checked for PSSM?)

My friend's horse has a problem with his sacroiliac joint and was an idiot to lunge - bucking, disunited etc. He's off ridden work at the moment and she's got a programme of exercises to work through to strengthen him up. Might be worth running that past the vet. Good luck and let us know how you get on. I've spent more time with horses out of work than in work recently I think, so you have my sympathy!

 

[Birker2020]

I live in NZ, and am lucky enough to keep my horses at home.

I seem to have an issue whereby I collect horses, that usually go lame with one obscure injury or illness or another. (I swear its not me!).

So love of my life horse (JacksonBrown), has a weird hind end lameness that no vet can figure out. He has been xrayed from Foot to stifle, and whilst there are a couple of small changes in the hock on one leg, its not enough to cause him the issues he has. As a result - he has been retired since 2009. GAH.

Now new boy, beautiful big TB. I had such high hopes for him in the show ring. Beautiful nature as well. He had a couple of abcesses that kept him out of work a while, and then he got badly grass affected (This is a well known thing in NZ, but as a brit in 2008 when I moved here I had no idea). He would rub his nose alot, bit spooky, and generally overreact to anything at any point with no warning! So he went onto the minerals, came off clover and rye grass, and was fed the SOS supplement to get him back to normal. Normality resumed. Began riding him, and he was a peach. Moved him to a big comp yard near me for winter so i had floodlights, and ****** me he went badly grass affected again. So yarded him, and back on the supplements. (this was my fault I didnt check to see if clover). Anyway, comes right on his SOS, but is still a dick to lunge. Squealing, bucking, kicking out, and going disunited and then "Skipping" forward one hind leg coming into trot.

(Well done if you are still reading )

So now my Question, any thoughts on what this may be? Vet is out on Wednesday, and I will get her to x ray the hock etc, as have nasty feeling I'm dealing with a bone spavin.

If he's going disunited in canter and has a skipping type of movement where his hind leg comes forward into trot this is the same as my mare who was diagnosed as having spavin. She has had steroid injections and is going well with these.