Has your horse had to be sedated?

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Have you ever had you horse sedated?
My vet says she sedates a huge amount of horses and ponies to be clipped/shod/have their teeth rasped or their sheathes cleaned etc and this surprised me.

My horse ended up being sedated this morning to have his teeth rasped. probably my fault as he had just been shod, watched his friends go out to the field, the horse next door was being clipped and the farrier was working on another horse outside his stable. Our yards usually quite and he is usually very well behaved for the vet etc but I think it all got a bit much for him to deal with in one go and he started getting bargy so he was sedated so the vet could safely finish rasping without being squashed.
 
Filled in Poll for my lad has had sedation once since I've owned him (almost 14years) and that was for stitching up a large wound (150 stitches from mid inside knee up inside forearm - vet was amazed that he was out of it on less dope than she'd given a foal on the job before - tbh I suggested she just local it as he wouldn't have moved
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OH's mare had sedalin 2 weeks ago to clip - I think it took the edge off but nothing more (she's now sporting an inside out bib clip - bib and head on, everything else off and is staying that way in the interest of safety
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Yes, my new vet did sedate all three to rasp their teeth this time. No vet has ever needed to do that before (except for one of them who likes to stand up) and my view was that the vet was being a bit of a wimp - and at my expense. However, she was there, and to send her away and call somebody else would have cost more so i had to bite the bullet and tell her to go ahead.
 
Yes to clip, but only for his head the first time which was about 12 years ago, after that I managed, never for the farrier, yes for teeth and yes a couple of times for vet treatment.
 
My boy has to be sedated to be clipped but in his defense he suffers from sweet itch and has very sensitive skin, and I think he finds it tickles too much. The dentist can examine him and put the gag in, but just finds it easier if he is sedated for the teeth being rasped. High maintenance horse!
 
I've never had a horse sedated to be shod, clipped or have their teeth rasped, but the vet has sedated them to deal with wounds etc. He has also sedated one of them to have his sheath and ears cleaned out. The worst one was when my old horse smashed his knee open and he had to be sedated every other day for a month for have all the dressings changed. The sedatives, call-out fees and the huge amount of dressings in a robert jones bandage added up to a very large bill!
 
Have sedated to clip, personally don't have a problem with it. Used to have to get the vet out for IV sedation for my Welshy, now he just occasionally has to have a few mls of Sedalin if he gets one on him. Usually nothing now though.

Have sedated for teeth before now too but never for vet treatment or shoeing.
 
I have never had to have my mare sedated to have anything other than actual vet treatments.
she was sedated when she nearly severed her tongue so the vet could have a proper look and when i got her to have a lump removed.

But thats the only times.

Other horses i have looked after have had to have sedation for other reasons.
TBH i think a lot of vets 'over use' sedation.
I have had vets ask to sedate horses when its TOTALLY unecessary but because the horse snorted they jump for the syringe.
 
had mine sedated several times but only for vet treatment ,ie scans naso gastric tubes. i get very stressed as she was breathing very deeply . had one horse that was acutely ill had to be sedated and two drips up in stable. dont think id put me/her through it unless it was serious
 
Not had to sedate my horse for anything...thankfully and fingers crossed!
He is great to shoe, just worked hard with patience for the dentist so he is fine about that and I don't clip him so no problem there either! Luckily he has never needed it for any illness or injury either...touch loads of wood!
 
No to all. I've never had any horse which needed to be sedated to facilitate someone to perform their job.
 
Chex has been sedated once to get his legs clipped and washed when his mud fever was really bad (it was impossible to touch his legs, never mind clip them!). Once they were clipped he was able to be twitched to clean them, and eventually just stood still. Now he stands like an angel to clip and wash them
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. He's fine for everything else, the dentist was amazed by how laid back he was! He likes being clipped too.
 
when we first bought Henry he had to be sedated to clip - as a stupid well know producer had frightened him that much whilst clipping ( never found out the whole story) that he went through the stable wall, along with twitch and handler :. With patience i could eventually clip him without anything - poor lad.
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Sedated for dentist first time he had teeth done with me. He needed a lot of work that time. Usually he's fine if I tire him out first.
Sedated when he scratched his eye so the vet could examine it safely.
Sedated for x-rays.
And has had a general anesthetic!
 
My boy had a full clip when I bought him and seeing his reaction to clippers, I assume he was sedated by his previous owners for this to be done! He also has to have Sedolin to have his jabs and I give his sheath a really good clean at the same time as he's not keen on that either.

I had my mare sedated to shoe when she was a youngster as she was downright dangerous, but I don't need to do it now. She has never needed sedation for anything else.

I'd rather sedate them than have them hurt themselves or someone else.
 
My mare is sedated to have her teeth done - she just goes up, waving her feet around otherwise, but she does normally require a fair bit of work done.

She always had to be sedated to clip, but a very patient yard owner got her out of that, the last time she was clipped she was sedated - and put the yard owner in hospital for 2 weeks, and off work for a couple of months - she won't be clipped again while I own her now.

She has also been sedated for vet work, mainly x rays and scans - I wouldn't trust her to stand still and not damage the equipment, you can't blame the vet for not wanting 16.2 of cob standing on his x ray machine!!
 
Never had to had Jigsaw sedated for anything but have had to have alisha sedated for clipping and teeth rasping. Also had her sedated when they scanning to see if she was in foal. She has been properly sedated at the vets when they were doing a CT scan.
 
only to be treated by vet for his accident when changing bandages on his servered artery, he even managed to throw vet across stable whilst under!! oops! otherwise for vet hes fine-last time he ahs his booster vet did him in field!! lol!
 
My boy is sedated every 6 months for electric work on his teeth, he was sedated for scoping recently and has had an operation done with standing sedation.
 
Pickles never been sedated for anything, he has his teeth donw without and they still sometimes have to get the prop thing that holds sedated horses heads up as he almost falls asleep!
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He is also sleepy with the farrier and clippers, he just int bothered by that kind of thing, but a small piece of plastic flapping now that is SCARY!
 
only for vet treatment on a tendon injury. she had to be boxed to the vets and I couldn't risk her thrashing about in the box. she doesn't like travelling but its not something I can desensitise her to because I don't have a box and she doesn't need to be travelled usually

I wouldn't routinely sedate for teeth, farrier or clipping. I might if I had just bought a new horse that needed one of them doing before I had time to train them to accept it but I really don't like the idea of routinely sedating a horse. We spend hours training them to be ridden, surely if the same amount of money and time was put into dealing with their other problems then there would be much less need to be pumping our horses full of drugs
 
Hmm....I have to answer yes to all of those.

Patches used to be sedated to be clipped, but she's over her clipper phobia now.

She was sedated once for shoeing when she had her tendon adhesions post surgery on her knee. Flexing her knee was incredibly painful and she'd rear. She needed the shoes to get her walking out daily for mammoth hacks to help break the adhesion down.

She was sedated once for machine work by our dentist to her teeth. He won't attempt machine work on any horse without sedation, as the tools are just too expensive to risk being damaged.

She's been sedated to be treated for various problems. Infact, she'll be sedated next Tuesday as she's having her hocks re-treated.
 
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