C6 and C7

[pistolpete]

Excuse my ignorance but are these vertebrae nearer the withers? Vet will have told me but I was re-reading some notes about my horse yesterday from vet and can't remember!

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Bottom of the neck (near the withers) I think.

 

[mightymammoth]

how is peter doing at rockley pistolpete?

 

[Nicnac]

C6 and C7 are deeper in the neck. The withers are the thoracic vertebrae.

 

[sueonmull]

C6 and C7 are the last cervical vertebrae at the 'withers end' of the neck though, if you look at a diagram of the horse's skeleton, there's actually quite a distance between these vertebrae and the withers themselves which are formed by the long spinous processes of the thoracic vertebrae.

 

[pistolpete]

Hi Victoria, he is okay I think! Going to see him on Sunday. Thanks for replies folks.