Supercob2017
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hello,
Wondering if anyone has any ideas that might help me and my horse. It’s a bit of a long story…it all started about 6 weeks ago, Horse was all fine we’d been out to the beach and then a few days later I noticed he was tucked up/sucked in around his flank area. We’re in the U.K. and had just finally had some rain after an extreme drought and we had been doing some hard work lately so we put it down to the weather and lacking salt potentially. Then the weekend after we was booked in a charity ride which we went too, we was still tucked up at this point, we went round the charity ride feeling pretty uninspired the whole way round, he jumped everything but with no effort and didn’t have any sparkle to him like he usual does. The week after we decided to take him hunting as that normally sorts him out if he’s abit down, he was absolutely fine and pulling my arms out jumping everything.
At this point he was still tucked up so we decided to give him 3 days off, we was due at a show the week after so on the Wednesday mid week I thought I’ll give him a little jump in the school. He flat out refused everything even 50cm which is not like him at all. After this we trotted him up to see if anything was obvious but there was no signs of anything obvious lameness wise.
I asked several people if they thought he was lame or they could spot anything. No one could spot anything. So I took him to his show, we refused in the warm up again and a friend noticed he was slightly lame probably 1/10 lame in the back end, so I pulled him from the show. The vet was then coming out to the yard two days later for someone else. So I asked her to look, we trotted him up and at this point he was 2/10 lame on the straight, but not to bad on a circle. The next route was a full lameness investigation or to try 3 weeks off with 2 weeks on bute. We hadn’t rested him so we decided to try that.
It’s now been 2 weeks, the first week he was so quiet in the field which is not like him at all. Then last Wednesday he really perked up running around his field. To which he also looked sound. We’re now two weeks in to the day and although he definitely seems a lot more himself he’s now still pretty tucked up in the back end. Does any one have any similar story’s? I wondered if because the muscles been like that for 6 ish weeks now if it may take a while to go down? So wondering if anyone can put my mind at ease if I’m just being impatient or do you think I’m best to get the vet back out?
He’s still got another week off rest but I’m just worrying he’s not going to come back right
Wondering if anyone has any ideas that might help me and my horse. It’s a bit of a long story…it all started about 6 weeks ago, Horse was all fine we’d been out to the beach and then a few days later I noticed he was tucked up/sucked in around his flank area. We’re in the U.K. and had just finally had some rain after an extreme drought and we had been doing some hard work lately so we put it down to the weather and lacking salt potentially. Then the weekend after we was booked in a charity ride which we went too, we was still tucked up at this point, we went round the charity ride feeling pretty uninspired the whole way round, he jumped everything but with no effort and didn’t have any sparkle to him like he usual does. The week after we decided to take him hunting as that normally sorts him out if he’s abit down, he was absolutely fine and pulling my arms out jumping everything.
At this point he was still tucked up so we decided to give him 3 days off, we was due at a show the week after so on the Wednesday mid week I thought I’ll give him a little jump in the school. He flat out refused everything even 50cm which is not like him at all. After this we trotted him up to see if anything was obvious but there was no signs of anything obvious lameness wise.
I asked several people if they thought he was lame or they could spot anything. No one could spot anything. So I took him to his show, we refused in the warm up again and a friend noticed he was slightly lame probably 1/10 lame in the back end, so I pulled him from the show. The vet was then coming out to the yard two days later for someone else. So I asked her to look, we trotted him up and at this point he was 2/10 lame on the straight, but not to bad on a circle. The next route was a full lameness investigation or to try 3 weeks off with 2 weeks on bute. We hadn’t rested him so we decided to try that.
It’s now been 2 weeks, the first week he was so quiet in the field which is not like him at all. Then last Wednesday he really perked up running around his field. To which he also looked sound. We’re now two weeks in to the day and although he definitely seems a lot more himself he’s now still pretty tucked up in the back end. Does any one have any similar story’s? I wondered if because the muscles been like that for 6 ish weeks now if it may take a while to go down? So wondering if anyone can put my mind at ease if I’m just being impatient or do you think I’m best to get the vet back out?
He’s still got another week off rest but I’m just worrying he’s not going to come back right
