Can you believe this YO???

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I took my horses to a new yard on Monday, relaised i had made a massive mistake..... but thats by the by.....

I had phoned her to say that i was going and she said

'by the way Checky has been kicked, cant stay in cos he will get stiff, brought him in, hosed it and put some tea tree gel on and put him back in the field'.

Okay - so you will be thinking.... what a nice YO!!! Considering when i got theere she was anxious for vets name, number and my mobile which id given her.

BUT...... Went down the yard expecting a little cut/graze etc.

AND I FOUND a gouge out of his knee with his knee twice the size and swelling half way up his radius bone!!!!!

Moved horses immediately back to old yard as she would have kicked off if i had gotten vet - she said a salt water clean twice a day and all would be fine in 10 days (WHATEVER).

Vet came first thing and obviously its infected, hes on box rest for 10 days, antibiotics and needs it bandaged. Hes not allowed bute because his lameness needs to be monitored (if it gets worse then something more serious has to be investigated).

Im soooooo p i s s e d off - it may not have got so bad had she rang and told me, and i could have got the vet ASAP.

What is it with these old school equestrians????
 
Considering i had bought the horse off her 2 years ago and she loves him 2 bits!!!

I havent a clue what she is hiding!!
 
When I moved my pony to a new yard a few years back, because she had front shoes on she was put out with all of the huge hunters etc. as all of the other ponies were barefoot. (she was only 13.1hh)
I arrived on the yard the next day in the rain to be told "saff has caught her shoulder but she's fine so she's in the field"
I flew down the field to find my pony drenched from head to toe in a standing with blood pouring down her leg and a 6 inch chunk of skin coming off her shoulder. 60 stitches later and an incredibly lame pony, i questioned why, when the field was checked hourly she had been left in the field to bleed. The answer, "We don't bring in other people's ponies as we're not insured to walk them down the lane"
I couldn't believe my ears. And to add insult to injury, the yard owner was not happy to have her in on the Box rest prescribed by the vet as she was "too noisy during the day" Needless to say, she was removed form the yard the next day.
But unfortunately due to the stress of three months consequent box rest, she developed chronic laminitis and we lost her 6 months later. But I still wonder if the YO had contacted me or a vet sooner the story would've been different.
 
Sounds like she either couldn't be bothered with the hassle or didn't have time if she was rushing about, either way that is no excuse and not acceptable.

I wouldn't like to think she was my YO. Decisions of how your horse should be treated at the time and post treatment should only be made by either the owner or the owners vet to avoid any possible come backs or boil up further problems like in this case.

Hope he makes a full recovery.
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Moved horses immediately back to old yard as she would have kicked off if i had gotten vet

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What's it got to do with her? Your decision and money = none of her business. Probably best that you moved back, she sounds odd or clueless or both.
 
I think she thinks cos hes retired that it 'doesnt matter'.

oooooo the more i think about it the more mad i get!!!!!!

I think it may be because she is the very old school who dont believe in vets.

After i bought him he developed kissing spine, and i seen her one day and told her - the answer was 'none of our horses have that, but we dont get the vet out for bad backs' - so they would never know!!!!!!!!!!!

At least im away from it all!!!!
 
it shocks me how people can think to put a horse out without vet say so and with such a shocking injury!! nothing suprises me anymore!!
 
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