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can believe it today our worse nightmare... ours sons horse fell in the trailer going to a show!!!
is has cut down his flanks hocks and bruised his hip...we had'nt got more than 2 miles from home and had to unload him and walk him home as he was just to wound up to risk travelling back....
 
some can't cope when in a partition but will travel fine if solo with the partition removed... presume your horse normally travels OK though?
 
Yes i agree with the above i have had a horse myself and have known three others just one day are un able to travel without a partition.. for no reason they all started to loose there back end and struggle to stand. I would take out the partition and put a full lenght brest bar.
 
he normally travels fine ...we had'nt got far and just could'nt find his footing today really don't understand why he is going to be off work at least two weeks if not four now to rest the hip joints and let the bruising go down....
 
Agree with above about the partition. Its a very common problem and is posted on here loads of times. It is odd how he is normally ok but this did happen to my friends horse who just started throwing himself on the floor for some unknown reason. She cured it by travelling him alone as if a horse was next to him he fell.
Id also check your tyre pressures, floor etc just incase he senses something isnt quite right.
 
funny you should say about another horse in the trailer because thats the only thing different today..he was next to my daughters pony...the only time they travel together as a rule is in the horse box..this is the first time we have taken him with another horse/pony...but why on earth would that upset him they share same yard field and travel side by side in a box....trailer is a new one and he has always been ok in it...
 
This happened to my mare, she kept stumbling and falling in the trailer. It turns out that the brake on one side was sticking and causing the trailer to jolt although I couldn't feel it whilst towing at the time.

Might be worth just getting the trailer checked out.
 
As I have posted several times on threads the same as this, this happened to our mare. She was perfectly fine travelling then started falling over especially on left bend. She was much better with the partition out but is completely cured by buying a rear facing trailer. She has the partition in, never moves, loads and travels fine, even without another horse. Vet said it is to do with balance but I don't know why it should change?
 
With my friends horse, it didnt matter who the horse was next to him, for some reason he just through himself on the floor but was fine when travelled alone. Id try him alone again when hes fit enough to travel just to see. You could also try swapping them over and travelling him on the other side too. Just a thought, have you got the head divider in when travelling 2. Just thinking that in a wagon, most have head dividers. Maybe the other pony was biting him or something and he couldnt get away from it, so scrabbled about and fell??? Long shot really
 
this is interesting to read as my pony always travelled fine then one day loaded him up and didnt even get out the yard, he was all over the place in the box. he was leaning against the partition and cantering his backlegs up the other side!!
I couldnt understand it he had travelled in this trailer loads of times and with this horse.
Now i travel him on the passenger side, and he seems to be ok.
 
thanks i think i will try travelling him alone again when he has recovered...other pony was fine.. i had jumped in trailer while traveling (i know not meant to) just to try and get him home and it was just him being the prat other pony was quite well until horse fell over and his legs were on its side that freaked him out a bit!!
 
This is known as scrambling. They lean on the centre partition and try to 'run' up the side of the trailer, sometimes resulting with them falling in the trailer. Once they learn this behaviour it can be hard to overcome or correct without changing the set up in the trailer. It can happen for a number of different reasons, depending on the horse e.g. claustraphobia etc. Some ways I've seen that have helped are to remove the centre partition and use a full breast bar, get a rear facing / herringone trailer or use a lorry.
 
Easy to call someone a 'tit' if they did something to themselves on purpose, but horses...I've never seen a horse want to cause himself harm on purpose, only in the name of self-preservation. Does a deer / rabbit / squirrel / horse invite themselves into a cave on wheels only to be lunch for a meat eater??? Mmmm, never seen it mysef but open to suggestions. x
 
No in the case of Rar he IS A TIT, standing crosslegged in a moving trailer is dim & he does it half the time (not always) he also does it in the feild & then falls asleep & over.
sadly having been around him from conseption point onwards i have had so many occations to call him that for many things.
 
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