Horse stuck on door/fence

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In here as getting no response in NL, sorry.
Has anyone had a horse stuck on a door or fence please. Our was stuck on his stable door for half an hour this morning, in some distress. We did unscrew the hinges & he seemed unscathed apart from some bruising round his stifles & being in a complete sweat.
I am concerned about things like colic, and so if anyone has had this happen, what was the outcome, were there after effects?
Mine is trotting round the field now & I'll give him some bute later as I'm sure he'll be sore, apart from that cab't think there's anything else to do but keep an eye on him.
 
Did he try to jump it?

I'd bute up for 3 days and montior. I suspect he'll get over it but may well be happier staying out in the field for a few days- will help with the swelling too
 
ply arnica to the bruised areas and if there's any cuts or scratches aloe vera is great as an anti bacterial as well as a healant. We had a horse at our old yard do it and he was a bit sore for a day or 2 but mentally he was okay!

bloody animals!!
 
He wouldn't let you touch his back legs before this happened, He now thinks there's a conspiracy & that even inanimate objects are out to get him.
I shal try to get more cream on him later, but thankfully the skin isn't broken. This reminds me how much of a pain youngsters are.
 
Mine got struck 'climbing' over a fence once (he's perfectly capably of jumping it, grrrr). Fence had to be dismantled around him and then he trotted off happily round the field, none the worse.
He's never done it again - instead he breaks the fence post these days if the grass is greener on the other side.....
 
Had exactly the same thing happen - horse suffered no ill effects afterwards apart from a bit of soreness and bruising. We did get him a weaving grill after that though!
 
If you're worried about colic and want a few days worth of antacid to give him, I happen to have three different types in stock and could be persuaded to donate some to the cause....
 
This is all a relief thanks for replying. Shall just have to keep a close eye on him for a while. Bit of an extreme way to get out of being backed tho....
 
Thanks T. tbh he was prancing round the yard pretty much straight afterwards & seems to have suffered no after effects. I worry slightly about him being bruised or knocked about inside, but don't suppose there's a lot you can do about that.
 
My mare got stuck by her stifles on the partition of the lorry. She was there around 30 minutes and had to be operated on due to facial wound.

I used truck loads of aloe and arnica for her internal injuries. Although Butes just as good
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Doopid animal.
 
My friends mare tried to jump out of her field and got stuck on the five bar gate. Unfortunately her front feet were on the floor so she could only go one way and that was forwards. If she had been stuck the other way, ie with the top of the gate on her chest she would probably have collapsed with her back legs and thus fallen off the gate. According to my vet Warmbloods have a 'stress reaction' in which their hind legs collapse when they get stressed which isn't so common with other types and I have seen it happen twice before when my WB's have been in a panicky stressed out 'stuck' mode, once when my horse reared and got his leg stuck at chest height in barbed wire and once when he half pulled a shoe off and was trying to walk on top of the clenches sticking into his feet and there was about five people stood holding his leg up in the air and trying to free his shoe - he started staggering backwards and looked like he was going to go down on his bum! Its a typical WB thing.

Anyway this mare had to have the assistance of the fire brigade to come out to her and she suffered all sorts of cuts and deep bruses to her hind legs which necessitated having about 3 months off work. I think she also suffered some internal bruising. She was stuck for about an hour. The fire brigade turned up (in 3 fire engines as they all came for a look and to learn) and they had to cut the gate apart in order to free her.

At a previous yard there was a small mare that kept jumping out of the stable over the stable door to get to her mate in the field. She would always manage to wriggle free but it was a tense time watching her as you knew you could not risk getting involved for fear of being badly hurt in the process. They tried to remedy the situation by putting an anti weave grid up but she managed to jump through that too! I think the last time she got really stuck before eventually freeing her so they had to put a full grille on her door to prevent her from jumping out at all. Poor mare.
 
He's just had a danilon, but there didn't even seem to be much swelling or bruising on his back legs so fingers crossed he's gotten away with it.
Shall just have to postpone backing & actually do some quiet lunging I suppose...
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We had one mare climb over her door in the old stables and be stuck upside down with her legs in the air in the corridor between the boxes for goodness knows how long, at least five hours we reckon. She was very stiff and cold and we gave her bute for a few days plus watched her carefully. She soon recovered and had no after effects.
 
One of mine bucked and lashed out in her stable and got just one bak leg over the door. It was just a bit to high for the other back leg to reach the floor, so she was hanging with all her weight on the inside on the hock (just what you want at 7am on a winter morning). I ended up taking a malle (?) hammer and walloping the door until it gave way.

She was very bruised, but no broken skin. She was lame for about 3 days, and I gave her arnica.
 
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