Flicker
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Firstly, please be gentle with me or I will cry - I am serious, I'm about ready to throw in the towel!!
My chap has been mildly lame (1/10th) on OFF fore for just over a week. At first I tried just rest with turnout into his pen, but he kept doing his best impression of a horse that is not lame and I think was re-tweaking whatever he'd tweaked in the first place.
Had a word with farrier who had a look last week, said his feet were a bit long and booked himself in for a visit this week to re-shoe (came up yesterday).
Towards the end of last week, having discussed it with his previous owner who had him for 6 years, we decided to keep him in and give him structured and controlled exercise (gentle hacks and walking in hand). I had felt a tiny bit of heat in that fetlock so put it down to a sprain.
My trainer walked him out yesterday for me, gave him a tiny trot on soft ground and said he was much improved, almost sound.
The farrier then came up and from the looks of things has cut his feet down a fair bit, but not LOADS.
But, last night when I came up, I noticed that his NEAR fore has blown up around the fetlock, with warmth and swelling tracking up the leg. It is vastly improved this morning, following stable bandaging, cold hosing and a bit of walking, but there is still some warmth and puffiness. He does not appear to be lame in walk at all - I couldn't face trotting him up!
The farrier says he can't think of anything foot-wise that might have caused it.
I was just wondering if anyone else has had any similar experiences?
Of course, if it is not resolved satisfactorily tonight I will call the vet out, but I would rather avoid it if I can help it, having just had a pay cut at work!!
My chap has been mildly lame (1/10th) on OFF fore for just over a week. At first I tried just rest with turnout into his pen, but he kept doing his best impression of a horse that is not lame and I think was re-tweaking whatever he'd tweaked in the first place.
Had a word with farrier who had a look last week, said his feet were a bit long and booked himself in for a visit this week to re-shoe (came up yesterday).
Towards the end of last week, having discussed it with his previous owner who had him for 6 years, we decided to keep him in and give him structured and controlled exercise (gentle hacks and walking in hand). I had felt a tiny bit of heat in that fetlock so put it down to a sprain.
My trainer walked him out yesterday for me, gave him a tiny trot on soft ground and said he was much improved, almost sound.
The farrier then came up and from the looks of things has cut his feet down a fair bit, but not LOADS.
But, last night when I came up, I noticed that his NEAR fore has blown up around the fetlock, with warmth and swelling tracking up the leg. It is vastly improved this morning, following stable bandaging, cold hosing and a bit of walking, but there is still some warmth and puffiness. He does not appear to be lame in walk at all - I couldn't face trotting him up!
The farrier says he can't think of anything foot-wise that might have caused it.
I was just wondering if anyone else has had any similar experiences?
Of course, if it is not resolved satisfactorily tonight I will call the vet out, but I would rather avoid it if I can help it, having just had a pay cut at work!!
