Box rest - horse won't cross tie

mytwofriends said:
Wow, that's interesting, would never have thought that was possible. But just about the knee, like OP's horse? I was just going on how crippled my boy was, with such a tiny fracture.
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I've never had a horse with a fracture that low but my horses fracture was not a little one at all.
The vet said my horse should have been on 3 legs but he had been out doing dressage (and scored 69%) a few days before the lameness work up. the bolting was out of character for the horse so we took him up for investigations which included the lameness work up, scoping him, checking eyes, running bloods etc. When they found nothing in that I insisted on further investigations so they bone scanned him and his pelvis lit up like a christmas tree
 
I've been googling horror stories about not cross tying them this morning :( she had lay down over night as shavings all in her tail but I did stupidly pull her bed down. I will just leave a light sprinkle of shavings down in future as she doesn't tend to lie down in the daytime with a light bed. If x-ray any worse Friday I will have to get another credit card and send her to the vets to be sedated and cross tied for the remainder.
 
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If she wont cross tie and is really hating her stable, I would put up a pen outside her stable if you can? Would she be able to see other horses then? Could you even borrow a little pony for a while to keep with/beside her? I had to box rest one of mine a few years ago who was also a hot blood and began being quite explosive when I started to do his controlled exercise, it was impossible. So I ended up making a little corral right outside his stable so I could leave the door open and he could choose to stand outside or in, the outside pen was made with the 6ft high steel mesh fencing that builders use on building sites etc. and made the same size as a stable so he couldnt move too much still. Its brilliant stuff as no escape from it yet they can see through it totally. When it was time for him to start going back out on grass, I used the fencing for a good few weeks - making his grass corral a bit bigger every week, it was the safest way as I knew he'd instantly jump out over a normal fence if Id just chucked him straight out! Mine wasn't a fracture though, he had a very large hole in the middle of his DDFT and had surgery on it, he was meant to stay very still though but obviously I had to adapt accordingly. He ended up sounder that they expected so it didnt do him any harm.
 
Oldenfelle said:
Vet came out today and confirmed definitely a fracture. Will have to see how we go with cross tying whilst keeping her sedated :(
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Well that's why you are cautious until you know exactly where you are .
Other things to try is reducing the space around her with bales of shavings you just pack them in until you get a solid lump around them I have only done this once it was with a horse who had a suspected broken thigh bone .I used three high .
It took a fair few bales but they where all I had to hand on a Saturday night .
The one who was in plaster in the winter had a purpose made barrier made by my friend whose very handy it worked really well it was made from thick ply wood on a frame attached to the wall at an angle across the stable and braced with wood to the far wall it worked brilliantly .
I have kept all the bits so we could have it back up in half an hour.
You will get through it it's horrible for the horse but in three months you will be over this and she will be alive every day is a day over .
 
mytwofriends said:
Wow, that's interesting, would never have thought that was possible. But just about the knee, like OP's horse? I was just going on how crippled my boy was, with such a tiny fracture.
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My horses fracture was above the knee and he was sound. And it didn't show on x Ray. So totally possible.
 
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