Does my head look big in this????

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Bless him, I hope your vet can get to the bottom of it, I know horses that show jump at a good level with only one eye so their depth perception must be very different to ours (which needs two eyes to compare depth)
In such a young horse laser surgery would be worth investigating if it is something fixable.
Best to keep him safe in the mean time !
 
Tnavas said:
Bless him, many years ago we had a horse with a damaged tri-geminal nerve and his head would twitch violently. We covered his head collar with foam too.
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Ah. that's interesting. He has a trigeminal nerve injury from the eye socket fracture, and a partially numb nose.There is a possibility that this second serious injury has actually been caused by the first. But that still doesn't explain why he has spent three years not knowing where his head is!!!
 
Ha ha, now he will think he is invincible and take even less care. As a random qu, did he have the head bashing problem before his kissing spine surgery or did it only start afterwards?
 
Fun Times said:
Ha ha, now he will think he is invincible and take even less care. As a random qu, did he have the head bashing problem before his kissing spine surgery or did it only start afterwards?
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It is a risk that he can see even less now, but he's being pretty cautious right now, and hopefullly by the time he is used to it the riot shield will be here.

He has always done it for the three years I've owned him, but the frequency and severity has risen sharply since the ligament resection for kissing spines. I have alerted my vet to that, and we are having a case conference about him in a week's time.
 
Spot_the_Risk said:
I'm impressed he let you put that amazing contraption on him! Hoping for a speedy recovery and that he quits the self harm!
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He's really very, very sweet, unless he's in pain, when he has a buck I would defy anyone to stay on!!! Considering that his left cheekbone is probably broken and obviously very, very sore, I'm amazed I can get it on him too. It took me ages to make it!
 
Bless, he looks proud of his crash helmet!!!

just a thought but have you put up cameras in his stable to see what he does? Might be able to see if he is acting a little odd before he bashes himself.
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Slightlyconfused said:
Bless, he looks proud of his crash helmet!!!

just a thought but have you put up cameras in his stable to see what he does? Might be able to see if he is acting a little odd before he bashes himself.
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Weve seen him do it once in a barn by himself. He was having a little canter in joy at being home from hospital (!!!) and didn't turn in time for the wall and took a piece out of his forehead. I've seen him turn and hit his head without causing injury in a stable. He's been doing this for three years, but in the last 3 months he's done it four times and two of those really, really serious. He's injured himself in a stable, in a 90 foot long barn, and now in a 12 acre field with nothing but a field shelter and the back corner of his own stable block that he could have done it on. He is simply completely unaware how far away hard things are from his eyes.
 
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