Paint it Lucky
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What to do?!
One of the horses at my yard seems to injure himself/have colic/tie up/get urticaria/loose a shoe/whatever at any oppurtunity.
Recently he's been off work for ages due to knocking himself on the fetlock in the field. He was box rested for about a week then silly yard manager decided to lunge him to see if he was sound, he was but then tied up as hadn't had any exercise for days. So then he needed another few weeks off to recover.
Once over this I began riding him again to get him fit as by now he'd been off (and stuck in stable) for over a month. I very slowly got him back up to cantering and fit enough to do an hours lesson (he is a riding school horse). All seemed well so I turned him out in the field as I felt sorry for him having been stuck in for weeks. So he lost a shoe! Came in hopping lame (he is a very sensitive sole!), fortunately farrier was able to come out that day and put shoe back on, after which he was fine. He did his first lesson (hooray!) at the weekend and survived it, yey. So today I turned him out again hoping he would manage not to injure himself in any way this time, but no, he came in with a hole in his hoof wall just under the coronet band where he had stood on himself. AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He didn't look majorly lame but wasn't quite right either. Poulticed his hoof and hoped for the best. The poor boy seems prone to every ailment going, it is rare he goes out without scraping himself somehow, he can't cope with frosty or very sugary grass, he gets urticaria, he knocks into himself, he is prone to azoturia. Last year he managed to tear a big gash in his hindquarter muscles by rolling against a loose nail (which admittedly shouldn't have been there) in his stable. He is prone to a bad back so needs a special saddle and is weak behind so only a few people are allowed to ride him. He is sugar intolerant so has to have special feed. He won't eat any feed supplements so gets fed very little (just chaff and hay at the moment!) He suffered severe worm damage when younger so his gut still doesn't work properly. He has to wear special shoes as his conformation is bad. Yard manager is reluctant to ever turn him out, (I suppose you can see why), yet I nag her to do so as surely it is no sort of a life to be stuck in a stable 24hrs a day? I just feel really sorry for this horse, he has the most adorable character and although he is the most accident prone horse I've ever met I reckon that with different management he would do a lot better. Yard manager couldn't be bothered to reduce his feed on his days off so now just feeds him practically nothing. Anyway just wanted to share this with you, has turned into a bit of a rant I guess, pointless post really, anyone else's horse like this?
One of the horses at my yard seems to injure himself/have colic/tie up/get urticaria/loose a shoe/whatever at any oppurtunity.
Recently he's been off work for ages due to knocking himself on the fetlock in the field. He was box rested for about a week then silly yard manager decided to lunge him to see if he was sound, he was but then tied up as hadn't had any exercise for days. So then he needed another few weeks off to recover.
Once over this I began riding him again to get him fit as by now he'd been off (and stuck in stable) for over a month. I very slowly got him back up to cantering and fit enough to do an hours lesson (he is a riding school horse). All seemed well so I turned him out in the field as I felt sorry for him having been stuck in for weeks. So he lost a shoe! Came in hopping lame (he is a very sensitive sole!), fortunately farrier was able to come out that day and put shoe back on, after which he was fine. He did his first lesson (hooray!) at the weekend and survived it, yey. So today I turned him out again hoping he would manage not to injure himself in any way this time, but no, he came in with a hole in his hoof wall just under the coronet band where he had stood on himself. AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He didn't look majorly lame but wasn't quite right either. Poulticed his hoof and hoped for the best. The poor boy seems prone to every ailment going, it is rare he goes out without scraping himself somehow, he can't cope with frosty or very sugary grass, he gets urticaria, he knocks into himself, he is prone to azoturia. Last year he managed to tear a big gash in his hindquarter muscles by rolling against a loose nail (which admittedly shouldn't have been there) in his stable. He is prone to a bad back so needs a special saddle and is weak behind so only a few people are allowed to ride him. He is sugar intolerant so has to have special feed. He won't eat any feed supplements so gets fed very little (just chaff and hay at the moment!) He suffered severe worm damage when younger so his gut still doesn't work properly. He has to wear special shoes as his conformation is bad. Yard manager is reluctant to ever turn him out, (I suppose you can see why), yet I nag her to do so as surely it is no sort of a life to be stuck in a stable 24hrs a day? I just feel really sorry for this horse, he has the most adorable character and although he is the most accident prone horse I've ever met I reckon that with different management he would do a lot better. Yard manager couldn't be bothered to reduce his feed on his days off so now just feeds him practically nothing. Anyway just wanted to share this with you, has turned into a bit of a rant I guess, pointless post really, anyone else's horse like this?
