Booboos
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For a Christmas present this year my horses gave me one lost shoe, cue emergency farrier visit, and one case of mud fever, cue emergency vet visit - how was your horse's timing over the holidays?
Farrier and vet call outs during holiday POLL
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dozzie
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Horse lost a shoe and had some heat in her leg but I didnt think either constituted an emergency in my case. So didnt call out in emergency hours.
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Donkeymad
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Not this Christmas, but for the previous three years I have required one vet visit over each Christmas.
chestnut cob
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Not the farrier but he needed the emergency vet twice
I'm really looking forward to that vet bill, esp as the vet was on the yard scoping him til 7pm on NYE
I'm really looking forward to that vet bill, esp as the vet was on the yard scoping him til 7pm on NYE
YorksG
Over the hill and far awa
I would not have called the farrier out over the holidays unless the emergency was a lot more than a lost shoe to be honest.
Booboos
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Sorry I was a bit unclear! Farrier came out between Christmas and New Year as he was working for two days (29th and 30th) but I would consider it an emergency because he was not scheduled to come but still was kind enough to come out for a lost shoe. The horse does damage his hoof badly without shoes and especially in this hard ground he would have ruined his foot so I would have found it odd to leave him for 10 days! Vet came out on 2nd which was a normal working day for the vets, so I did not pester him either in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve!!
I was just thinking what bad luck it is to need vets and farriers in the middle of the holidays which are supposed to be relaxed times, not commenting on when it is appropriate to call them.
I was just thinking what bad luck it is to need vets and farriers in the middle of the holidays which are supposed to be relaxed times, not commenting on when it is appropriate to call them.
Penniless
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Slightly off-track with your thread, but our daft farrier turned up Christmas Eve to trim some of our horses (and hadn't even been booked) but said that now he was here, was we okay if he did a few anyway. Fine by us, and he didn't even want a mince pie when offered!
Couldn't believe it though when whilst we were chatting to him, he got a phone call from one of the racing trainers telling him to go to the yard Christmas Day and plate up some of the horses for the coming week. He politely told him "where to go".
Vet wise - unless it was life and death - there is absolutely no way we would call a vet out on a Bank Holiday - but in saying that, we went three Christmas's on the run, where we had to get vets out on Christmas Day (colic case, and stitches needed in two others).
Have had to use National Health Service though on Christmas Day - the second half of Penniless (Kerry) spent the day in A&E when she chopped her thumb off in the paddock gate! (Had got up early to turn the horses out in the snow and one of the foals had no brakes and slid into the gate as she was shutting it, and her thumb got caught up in the gate). She walked back to the house calling me, holding her thumb in her hand, and then walked back down to the field because she remembered she hadn't shut the gate!
Thankfully a brilliant German plastics surgeon was on duty and managed to attach the thumb back. It was a Chistmas Day to remember, not least because our visiting non-horsey family members said it spoilt their Christmas Day and wouldn't be coming again!
And would you believe, that our liveries still expected her to drive them in our horsebox the next morning to a show!
Anyone else spent Christmas Day in the hospital themselves?
Couldn't believe it though when whilst we were chatting to him, he got a phone call from one of the racing trainers telling him to go to the yard Christmas Day and plate up some of the horses for the coming week. He politely told him "where to go".
Vet wise - unless it was life and death - there is absolutely no way we would call a vet out on a Bank Holiday - but in saying that, we went three Christmas's on the run, where we had to get vets out on Christmas Day (colic case, and stitches needed in two others).
Have had to use National Health Service though on Christmas Day - the second half of Penniless (Kerry) spent the day in A&E when she chopped her thumb off in the paddock gate! (Had got up early to turn the horses out in the snow and one of the foals had no brakes and slid into the gate as she was shutting it, and her thumb got caught up in the gate). She walked back to the house calling me, holding her thumb in her hand, and then walked back down to the field because she remembered she hadn't shut the gate!
Thankfully a brilliant German plastics surgeon was on duty and managed to attach the thumb back. It was a Chistmas Day to remember, not least because our visiting non-horsey family members said it spoilt their Christmas Day and wouldn't be coming again!
And would you believe, that our liveries still expected her to drive them in our horsebox the next morning to a show!
Anyone else spent Christmas Day in the hospital themselves?
Paint it Lucky
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My horse tied up on christmas eve so had to get the vet out to give him some strong painkillers intravenously, and that was all she did! Just got the bill for £104! Can't believe it!
vieshot
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why would you get the vet out for mud fever?
amandaco2
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i am confident with dealing with most things myself
mine dont have shoes on so farrier call outs are very rare as non are prone to any foot issues.
my older mare had a swollen,warm leg and was a tiny bit lame with mud fever last week on xmas eve but i treated it myself as i was sure thats what it was, and shes fine now.
the things i would do an emergancy call out for is anything where the horse is severely lame/non weight bearing/down for any reason, colic that was anything other than mild and transient, any puncture wounds near joints/tendons, anything to do with eyes,breathing problems,very large wounds or anything bleeding excessively.
luckily none have come up for ages!
mine dont have shoes on so farrier call outs are very rare as non are prone to any foot issues.
my older mare had a swollen,warm leg and was a tiny bit lame with mud fever last week on xmas eve but i treated it myself as i was sure thats what it was, and shes fine now.
the things i would do an emergancy call out for is anything where the horse is severely lame/non weight bearing/down for any reason, colic that was anything other than mild and transient, any puncture wounds near joints/tendons, anything to do with eyes,breathing problems,very large wounds or anything bleeding excessively.
luckily none have come up for ages!
squirtlysmum
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New Years Eve my idiot child managed to pull a front shoe half off and bend it and just to get me losing the plot came cantering over on three legs holding said front paw out as though to say mummy it hurts!
I couldn't lead him in as he 'appeared' in so much pain so YO rushed out and did a DIY shoe removal, Wills then limped into his stable, his leg all puffy and hot, at this point I'm seeing vets bills in front of my eyes.
I hosed it for 15 mins, put stable bandages on front legs and two Danilon, he stayed in on New Years Day farrier, bless him, came out on the Friday and refitted shoe and neddy is completely sound.
I'm sure he just does this to add to my nervous breakdown. He is known on the yard as 'the self harmer' and is just the most playful accident prone nit in the history of the world!
I couldn't lead him in as he 'appeared' in so much pain so YO rushed out and did a DIY shoe removal, Wills then limped into his stable, his leg all puffy and hot, at this point I'm seeing vets bills in front of my eyes.
I hosed it for 15 mins, put stable bandages on front legs and two Danilon, he stayed in on New Years Day farrier, bless him, came out on the Friday and refitted shoe and neddy is completely sound.
I'm sure he just does this to add to my nervous breakdown. He is known on the yard as 'the self harmer' and is just the most playful accident prone nit in the history of the world!
Booboos
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Because after two weeks of managing very well by cleaning the legs and using local creams it all got infected and his leg was hugely swollen! He needed antibiotics and bute
