Hoof Help

[sian_x101]

My yearling colt is an such a pain when it comes to picking up his back legs. With his front legs he's brilliant but as soon as i go to pick up his back feet he will strike out straight away!

So i now have gone back to just running my hands down his back legs and not lifting them up. I've done this for two weeks and he's now find with this but i now don't know how to pick up his feet without him stressing out.

I've never seen a horse stress out so much over picking up his back feet. If you manage to pick them up he will continually kick out and will refuse to stop.

Does anyone know of anything I can do, or has had experience of this before?

Thanks in advance

 

[sp33dy]

I had a similar problem with my 5 year old who went from being fine to kicking out every time you went near his back legs. It turned out that he had pulled some muscles in his back and was uncomfortable when he had to stand on 3 legs. Its taken some work with the farrier, vet and back lady but he is back to his normal self now.
Could he have maybe done something out in the field - it is probably worth getting him checked out as it sounds like he is trying to tell you something.

Hope this helps