Does anyone else have a self harmer in their stable?

Old livery was one of the worst.
In under six months she had....
Surgery the day arrived. Stepped off the box to find her legs had been shredded. Took 3 months to get her sorted and back in work.
Abcess which as sod's law decree's happened the day after her owners went on holiday, followed by a fissure that went from gum to nostril. Owners had let insurance laspe too:rolleyes:
Three weeks after that she slipped in the field and hurt her back quite badly.
Her owners decided horses were not for them after all that and bought daughter a moped:D
 
joeanne said:
Old livery was one of the worst.
In under six months she had....
Surgery the day arrived. Stepped off the box to find her legs had been shredded. Took 3 months to get her sorted and back in work.
Abcess which as sod's law decree's happened the day after her owners went on holiday, followed by a fissure that went from gum to nostril. Owners had let insurance laspe too:rolleyes:
Three weeks after that she slipped in the field and hurt her back quite badly.
Her owners decided horses were not for them after all that and bought daughter a moped:D
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OMG you are making me feel so much bettter lol :D

No vet visits yet :D
 
Yep, I definitely have one. Found him in his stable monday morning sweating, bed up the walls, one back leg dangling in mid air with a huge hock and unable to take a single step in any direction. Really thought it was curtains, but thankfully he's showing signs of improvement after 3 days of me nearly having a nervous breakdown!
 
Mt twonk has kicked her own back leg and the outside of her other leg - she's in season and wound up, makes no difference in field or stable - she still hurts herself. I even had her ovaries scanned in case she was in pain with her seasons, then the vet told me the price of regumate, which was a nogo.
Protective boots didn't work and caused her legs to sweat then swell requiring a course of anti inflams to get them back to normal size and further worries about complications resulting from swelling, even though I was careful about their use, vet was adamant that I hadn't used them wrongly or put them on for too long or too tightly -and calls it "chestnut mare syndrome"!

Whatever I do to help her bloody backfires! I did want to have her back shoes removed but she has wedges for her arthritis. Fed up to the back teeth of the problems.
 
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Achinghips said:
Mt twonk has kicked her own back leg and the outside of her other leg - she's in season and wound up, makes no difference in field or stable - she still hurts herself.
Protective boots didn't work and caused her legs to sweat then swell, even though I was careful about their use, vet was adamant that I hadn't used them wrongly or put them on for too long or too tightly -and calls it "chestnut mare syndrome"!

Whatever I do to help her bloody backfires! I'm fed up.
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oh mine must be "chestnut gelding syndrome" :D
 
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