Horse hates soft/muddy/squelchy ground

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He literally walks like he is wearing high heels and will try to go around it as much as he can. He is such a trier that this is just odd.

Just been diagnosed with very very mild navicular and coffin bone change which have been injectioned and had tildren.

Is now completely sound on soft and hard ground on a circle.

Is he just a pansy and he doesn't like it on his tootsies or is it to do with the navicular etc?

He is bf too.
 
My 4yo doesn't like it either. He goes through at some crazy speedy walk. I hope there is nothing wrong with him! I like to think it's to do with their natural instincts? Can they tell how deep the ground will be? Could it swallow them up whole?
 
I hope it's just he doesn't trust the ground.
A lady said her horse with side bone does it and he as a bit of sidebone

Think lots of ground work in puddles and squelchy stuff is in order.
 
My mare hates mud. Except when we are hunting. .........

When you bring her in from the field she stops at the edge of the mud near the gateway and gives you this look that basically says "I am not walking through THAT you will just have to carry me!"

She never spooks or naps but will refuse to walk through deep mud. Nothing wrong with her other than being a total princess!
 
Kat said:
My mare hates mud. Except when we are hunting. .........

When you bring her in from the field she stops at the edge of the mud near the gateway and gives you this look that basically says "I am not walking through THAT you will just have to carry me!"

She never spooks or naps but will refuse to walk through deep mud. Nothing wrong with her other than being a total princess!
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I think he might be carrying the Princess gene too :/

Oh well just more to work on :)
 
Mine has always hated soft ground, be it mud or deep sand in an arena.
He was recently diagnosed with ringbone.
 
What's he like on a camber, collateral ligaments are often damaged as part of navicular syndrome and the unevenness of muddy ground can be uncomfortable, just like adjusting to walk along a a slope. On the other hand he might just quite understandable hate mud.
 
Could be either tbh. Mine is barefoot with a history of hoof problems and hates mud but he still hated it before thenif I'm honest. He is just Welsh and a pansy (and some of our mud is the extreme, nearly knee deep, welly sucking type)... He has nearly ran me over before now cos he can't bear to stand in the mud whilst I faff with his headcollar. Tonight he went to rush through some mud as usual and I tried to follow, got stuck, nearly fell over and wound up having to lever myself out by pulling against him on the leadrope and letting him tow me out... good job he wasn't keen on joining me back in the mud really as if he'd yielded to pressure like he would normally do I think I may have actually fallen over trying to unstick myself!
 
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