BroadfordQueen
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*warning- slightly gory pics at end of thread*
Hello!
I haven't posted on here for ages, and lots of things have changed!
I moved from the west midlands to the north east last year and brought Gizmo with me. We are on a lovely livery yard with excellent facilities- it took Giz a long time to adjust as she was so used to living at home on a quiet yard with 2 other horses! She is now living out 24/7 which has totally changed her from a stressy horse who never settles to the most chilled out (but slightly podgy!!) horse ever!!
Having a school has really improved our flatwork, and I get weekly jumping lessons which has improved us both so much.
We have had some bad luck at events- at Warwick Hall BE we had a 30.5 dressage, clear sj and clear xc- or so I thought, until I heard the commentator say I had missed out a fence and hence got eliminated!
we then went to a PC event and got a 25 dressage, clear sj but then slipped on the flat xc (came right down onto her side) so had to retire (luckily we were both fine!). Would have won that by over 10 marks!!
we went to Belsay last weekend which went a bit better- dr not as good as she broke into canter which earnt us a 4 and brought our score down to 32.5. We then had 4 faults sj at the last fence- I saw a long one but she chipped one in! The sj course caused carnage with only 4 clears so I was still pretty happy! Then she stormed round the xc like a little pro! Now entered for the be100 at Hutton, cant wait!
Onto other news, my boyfriend bought me a lovely 4yo to play with through the summer- she is a 15.2hh appaloosa x TB, with the most laid back personality ever! She has been a total sweetheart, and I was getting on well with backing her, cantering well and she saw her first pole a few days ago which she was more interested in eating than going over!
Unfortunately everything went wrong yesterday. After 2 weeks of being turned out next to each other and getting on well, I put Gizmo in with Frankie (the newbie). I watched them for half an hour and they were happily stood grazing side by side. When I came up a few hours later I found Frankie lying flat out- not unusual, she always sleeps. As I got closer though it was soon apparent that things weren't right, and I saw her leg had been sliced open. I have no idea what happened- something must have set them off and upset them as Giz isn't a nasty horse-and wouldn't have kicked her for np reason- but she also had 2 puncture wounds high up on the inside of her leg where she must have got pierced by the fence, so god knows what happened. I instantly thought she had broken her leg.
I managed to get her up but she wouldn't weight bare at all, so I quickly ran to get my phone and called the vet. He was amazing and cancelled everything and got there in 10 minutes. The YO and another livery were amazing- I held it together well until I saw them and just burst into tears! The other livery got the stable ready for me as my YO and mum and dad (who happened to be visiting for the week!) Came back down to the field with me to wait for the vet. He gave her pain killers, supported her foot with a mould as she couldn't stretch out her tendon to put her foot down, and then bandaged it to walk slowly back to the stable.
When we finally got her in the stable the vet had a good look and could see her main tendons appeared to be intact- thank god! He then got the ultrasound scanner out which indicated that all the tendons and ligaments had escaped damage, and just picked up what could either have been debris or bone fragments from her splint bone.
He flushed it out and bandaged it up, applied something to granualise(?!) The wound to speed up healing and is coming back on Thurs for a second scan.
Best case scenario is that its just the wound, which will take approx 4 months box rest to fix. We are keeping our fingers tightly crossed.
Poor girl. She was so quiet throughout the whole episode, vet was shocked she is only 4. She has settled very well and this morning was lying down- got straight up looking bright eyed, and was putting some weight on her leg so all good news. She wont eat her food with the bute/antibs in so we are having to mix that into a paste and syringe it in- not sure how much longer she will tolerate me doing that to her!
I feel so utterly guilty. They were fine next to each other, why did I have to put them in together?! I was so shaken for the rest of the day, I genuinely thought she would have to be PTS and had phoned my OH to get his permission as she is technically his horse. She appears to have been very lucky.
Some pics of Frankie before the accident-
and pics of her wound after being cleaned up:
if anyone has any positive stories of similar injuries, please share!
Hello!
I haven't posted on here for ages, and lots of things have changed!
I moved from the west midlands to the north east last year and brought Gizmo with me. We are on a lovely livery yard with excellent facilities- it took Giz a long time to adjust as she was so used to living at home on a quiet yard with 2 other horses! She is now living out 24/7 which has totally changed her from a stressy horse who never settles to the most chilled out (but slightly podgy!!) horse ever!!
Having a school has really improved our flatwork, and I get weekly jumping lessons which has improved us both so much.
We have had some bad luck at events- at Warwick Hall BE we had a 30.5 dressage, clear sj and clear xc- or so I thought, until I heard the commentator say I had missed out a fence and hence got eliminated!
we then went to a PC event and got a 25 dressage, clear sj but then slipped on the flat xc (came right down onto her side) so had to retire (luckily we were both fine!). Would have won that by over 10 marks!!we went to Belsay last weekend which went a bit better- dr not as good as she broke into canter which earnt us a 4 and brought our score down to 32.5. We then had 4 faults sj at the last fence- I saw a long one but she chipped one in! The sj course caused carnage with only 4 clears so I was still pretty happy! Then she stormed round the xc like a little pro! Now entered for the be100 at Hutton, cant wait!
Onto other news, my boyfriend bought me a lovely 4yo to play with through the summer- she is a 15.2hh appaloosa x TB, with the most laid back personality ever! She has been a total sweetheart, and I was getting on well with backing her, cantering well and she saw her first pole a few days ago which she was more interested in eating than going over!
Unfortunately everything went wrong yesterday. After 2 weeks of being turned out next to each other and getting on well, I put Gizmo in with Frankie (the newbie). I watched them for half an hour and they were happily stood grazing side by side. When I came up a few hours later I found Frankie lying flat out- not unusual, she always sleeps. As I got closer though it was soon apparent that things weren't right, and I saw her leg had been sliced open. I have no idea what happened- something must have set them off and upset them as Giz isn't a nasty horse-and wouldn't have kicked her for np reason- but she also had 2 puncture wounds high up on the inside of her leg where she must have got pierced by the fence, so god knows what happened. I instantly thought she had broken her leg.
I managed to get her up but she wouldn't weight bare at all, so I quickly ran to get my phone and called the vet. He was amazing and cancelled everything and got there in 10 minutes. The YO and another livery were amazing- I held it together well until I saw them and just burst into tears! The other livery got the stable ready for me as my YO and mum and dad (who happened to be visiting for the week!) Came back down to the field with me to wait for the vet. He gave her pain killers, supported her foot with a mould as she couldn't stretch out her tendon to put her foot down, and then bandaged it to walk slowly back to the stable.
When we finally got her in the stable the vet had a good look and could see her main tendons appeared to be intact- thank god! He then got the ultrasound scanner out which indicated that all the tendons and ligaments had escaped damage, and just picked up what could either have been debris or bone fragments from her splint bone.
He flushed it out and bandaged it up, applied something to granualise(?!) The wound to speed up healing and is coming back on Thurs for a second scan.
Best case scenario is that its just the wound, which will take approx 4 months box rest to fix. We are keeping our fingers tightly crossed.
Poor girl. She was so quiet throughout the whole episode, vet was shocked she is only 4. She has settled very well and this morning was lying down- got straight up looking bright eyed, and was putting some weight on her leg so all good news. She wont eat her food with the bute/antibs in so we are having to mix that into a paste and syringe it in- not sure how much longer she will tolerate me doing that to her!
I feel so utterly guilty. They were fine next to each other, why did I have to put them in together?!
I was so shaken for the rest of the day, I genuinely thought she would have to be PTS and had phoned my OH to get his permission as she is technically his horse. She appears to have been very lucky. Some pics of Frankie before the accident-
and pics of her wound after being cleaned up:
if anyone has any positive stories of similar injuries, please share!
