I would flag your concern with vet, get them to look very carefully at both back legs and the one you are concerned about. Adding hock x-rays doesn't seem excessive.I may be disappointing you all on the Morgan guys.. I noticed him occasionally resting his left hind but I was obviously distracted with everything going on with him. Just found photos from him at the in hand show from the week before and where he’s stood up he’s resting it like this. It doesn’t look like a moment in time when he was moving around type thing, he looks relaxed in the photo and stood up.
I feel like I’ve learned over the years that if you see something suspicious it usually means there is something going on and not just paranoia! Not sure whether to proceed with the vetting and just widen the x rays from back to hocks, stifle, fetlocks. But seems almost silly to vet a horse where you are expecting to find a problem? That said the vetting isn’t mega money even with a bunch of additional x rays. But it wouldn’t rule out an SI problem or similar.
Of course it could just be a stone bruiseBog as a baby had his right hind resting like that and it was seedy toe that needed a big resection.
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You sound like you are going off of him , which is ok. How would you feel if you didn’t go ahead? Perhaps it’s too soon to think of getting another while Bog is so well … just a thought , ignore if I’m talking rubbish
joking, joking…
Glad his better today it's amazing even a few days off grass and just being mindful can make such a differenceIn better news Bogs feet are ice cold and no pulses so he got 20 mins out on grass whilst I mucked out this morning.
You’ve got to love a horse that despite that being the most turnout he’s had in a few days, still comes to call to bring in
That saddle didn't look great and any sort of soreness in his back may cause him to want to rest his legs maybe?
Oh absolutely. Everything crossed he flies through the vet and it's just a hoof issue that needs a bit of tlc
I think you are understandably keen to protect yourself after all the heartbreak. But, realistically if you look hard enough you're going to find _something_ on any horse. By all means vet the horse thoroughly, but even with the cleanest of x rays the best of flexions etc etc a horse can still go wrong just standing in a field. They're fragile.
Ultimately, spend what you can afford and set a line for treating and investigating issues and injuries as and when they occur.
It could be something as simple as habit making him a little asymmetrical and a little inclined to stand resting that foot - a bit like the way people fold their arms one way or another and never vary, or it could be something like thrush, or something which with the work you'll do will never come to anything anyway
Don't trouble trouble til trouble troubles you
Indeed - I have seen this with rushed/poorly prepared youngsters - there can be a great deal of tension which results in this exact leg 'resting' position. One of our sharper hill ponies did this whilst being started, and in fact, she always struggled to relax: she was a dominant mare that we had hoped might work for one of our children but she was always rather too sharp so she went back to the hill. OH really liked her - clever, hot and sensitive and once she was more confident she was brilliant but was never going to be a suitable pony for a 10 year old! This completely reminds me of her!
horses are covered this am so nice to have a break.
Lovely to see gorgeous PepperI’d never even heard of that being a thing! Thank you for the info. Will see what the vetting brings. And if he vets ok but then is not right I’m fully prepared to lose my money as you should always be with horses.
I hate this waiting for a vetting rubbish, it’s also proving to be a nightmare to organise getting him to the USA unless I want to wait until end of October. At the moment the best option is looking like I will drive to Texas instead of flying to a team meeting in 3 weeks time with my trailer, then drive Dallas- Kansas afterwards to pick him up from a holding stables there where he would have been left the day before. Kinda ridiculous! 12 hours Colorado to Dallas, 6 hours Dallas to Wichita, 8 hours Wichita to Colorado. There’s only two trucks that go where I am and no options until almost into November, as he will miss the next truck because the health papers to travel post vetting have to be signed by a federal vet which takes a week.
In the meantime I am pre work hiking with pepper to try and forget the whole thing
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I don't think theres a whole lot to see that route but I could be wrong! Plus, time off work right now, LOL I wish!!!
driving through Kansas is very...unexciting.
It’ll all work out if it’s meant to I really believe that
I’m not usually one for this sort of stuff, but I believe this too.It’ll all work out if it’s meant to I really believe that
That's an interesting photo Michen. This is the same stance a horse I had years ago took when stood still. I got it checked out several times because although he wasn't lame on it it just didn't look right to me. In the end he did go lame on it and it was the annular ligament which runs around the back of the fetlock joint above the sesamoid bone. He went to Rossdales but they didn't feel surgery was needed, and by that time he was just hacking anyway so after field rest and rehab he was ok to hack.I may be disappointing you all on the Morgan guys.. I noticed him occasionally resting his left hind but I was obviously distracted with everything going on with him. Just found photos from him at the in hand show from the week before and where he’s stood up he’s resting it like this. It doesn’t look like a moment in time when he was moving around type thing, he looks relaxed in the photo and stood up.
I feel like I’ve learned over the years that if you see something suspicious it usually means there is something going on and not just paranoia! Not sure whether to proceed with the vetting and just widen the x rays from back to hocks, stifle, fetlocks. But seems almost silly to vet a horse where you are expecting to find a problem? That said the vetting isn’t mega money even with a bunch of additional x rays. But it wouldn’t rule out an SI problem or similar.
Of course it could just be a stone bruise
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I agree on this and maybe share your observations. I recently viewed a horse that was resting hind in stable when we got there, was resting it again when in the tie stall being tacked up and then again when we went back to untack. It was something I noted mentally and enough to have in back of mind. The horse was still doing it when I came to vet. But she Passed everything with flying colours until the last 2 X-rays of the fetlock on that hind leg, where it was found she had a chip in the sesamoid bone. She was young, unproven and wasn’t cheap and I had to walk away. The two might not have been related but seemed too coincidental for me. I think your view of being aware of it and doing extra X-rays seems logical
Of course on HHO you’ll always get a variety of experiences, some bad and some ok, when presenting a “thing”. I also want them to run the bloods for any pain relief and then you kind of get into the thing of well if your already checking x y z because of feel/gut/intuition whatever it is- then is this really a good idea!?
Amazing dog walking sceneryI’d never even heard of that being a thing! Thank you for the info. Will see what the vetting brings. And if he vets ok but then is not right I’m fully prepared to lose my money as you should always be with horses.
I hate this waiting for a vetting rubbish, it’s also proving to be a nightmare to organise getting him to the USA unless I want to wait until end of October. At the moment the best option is looking like I will drive to Texas instead of flying to a team meeting in 3 weeks time with my trailer, then drive Dallas- Kansas afterwards to pick him up from a holding stables there where he would have been left the day before. Kinda ridiculous! 12 hours Colorado to Dallas, 6 hours Dallas to Wichita, 8 hours Wichita to Colorado. There’s only two trucks that go where I am and no options until almost into November, as he will miss the next truck because the health papers to travel post vetting have to be signed by a federal vet which takes a week.
In the meantime I am pre work hiking with pepper to try and forget the whole thing
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