how accident prone is your horse?

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i was thinking about it today after coming back from a hack with yet again another injury on his back leg after he fell backwards down a curb, im not moaning, its superficial but god was it bleeding?!? i must have looked so cruel riding him home with blood dripping from his leg but he couldnt have felt that bad as he then took off with me down the track... :o

i'll go through the list (after owning the ginger doofus for 7 years)

-absess in the foot
- ligaments in hock written off
- another absess, other back foot
- cut the bulb of his heal off (through 7 arteries de-nerving the whole of his foot)
- next year he does it AGAIN!?!
- back goes - unridden for 4 months
- gets stabbed by a tree in the top of the leg goes up 5 inches splits muscle then gets infected even though on half a ton of antibiotics
- back goes again - unridden 3 months
- then falls off a curb

all together with all his random injuries he has cost me about £35,000 including after care

i suppose this is what i signed up for buying an irish sports horse... not exactly the brightest star in the sky :p
 
Your poor horse- he seems very unfortunate doesnt he?
Luckily, so far mine isn't very accident prone, has had a few tiny cuts but that's it. Back problems aside that is but she already had those we think.
 
G seems to fulfil his injury quota through MILLIONS of little things, like random cuts on face, legs, had a couple of nosebleeds from whacking his face on something - usually when trying to get a good look at something obviously that required urgent viewing...lol it's a good job I've spent my youth at a crappy RS where the answer to everything was hibiscrub, purple spray, and arnica. Worked fine, and is keeping the big man happy.

Did call vet at first nosebleed though as that was a bit scary!
 
oh i for got one he got kicked in the shoulder by this HUGE cob and had a hematoma the size of a basket ball we thought he had shattered his shoulder :S but yeah hes very unfortunate :/ he likes looking in bushes aswell which doesnt help good ol' electric fencing sorts that ;)
 
My dad had my horse for 5 years - no injuries other than a skin infection.
I have my horse for less than a year and he has:
1) knocked himself in the field and made himself lame - off for 3 days
2) pulled a sacroiliac muscle - off for 3 weeks
3) sliced through his boot AND leg on wire fencing - staples, bute, antibiotics and off for 3 weeks again.

He'd been in work for 8 days after hurting his back when he sliced his leg open :rolleyes:
 
He tends to trip over his own feet a lot - almost face planted me in the school when he tripped up in canter the other day. He has had an over-reach injury, sliced right through his front heel - hes more the subtle accident prone type - comes in from the field with scars and chunks of hair missing - no idea what he gets up to
 
I have to say (and i shall touch a fair bit of wood here), I have had my horse 16 years and he's really not very accident prone. All he's had are the odd abscesses - because he has some poor elements to his feet - and he hurt his! back a bit. That was however due to him crawling under a fence (he is 16.1hh so not a very intelligent move!h he got away with it one time but did it again and must have slipped going through and tweaked his back. Nothing a physio session couldn't sort though. All in all though he's pretty good really and does manage to 'find' ways to injure himself!
 
i have a self harming tb. i have had him 5 years and he has had an uncountable amount of cuts and scrapes. ones that stand out in my mind are
-bad wound to his left hind, took over a month to heal.
-kicked the top rail of post and rail off and scissored down onto bottom cutting his hind legs!
-random swelling down his neck that got bigger and bigger. went dow after 2 vet visits.
-burst old scar tissue open on old wound on hind leg which took 6 weeks to heal. this was done by a kicking match, it also agrivated an old hairline fracture so he was lame for 4 weeks.
-Numerous cuts to his coranet band, he now has a defect in his hoof.
in the last year of owning him the vet has been out more times then they ever have since iv had him. all his cuts have not needed vet attention. Tbh, he has never been one to go lame, just injure himself all the time! untill june last year, he has been lame ever since. He has been diagnosed with kissing spines, bone spavins in both hocks and navicular in both front feet. i havnt ridden him since october but im hoping to ride him again. i do miss riding him. iv got the vet coming out on tuesday to re access him and see where we stand. he is only 13 so im giving him plenty of time to come right.
 
whoooaaa i bet they came a bit quick all together :S taz has never seemed that unhappy... maybe he is just hiding it and secretly he is a self harmer ;) oo good luck for tuesday! hope all goes well!
 
very accident prone!
ok in three years:
Kick to hock
Damaged hind tendon
stung by swarm of bees
scratched eye
abcess hind foot
fell on knees two baddly cut knees
unknown forlimb lamness
and a very odd hind limb lamness

and inbetween all this not accidents but aquired ailments we have had-
colic
foot imbalance hindlimb
developed a very strange hind limb action for about 3 months which made vets and farriers very confused
arthritis in the back

think thats it!
 
So far liver and muscle infection off work six months, slipped over on hack five scrapes one deep staples in shoulder. sliced front of hind leg off work five months, feel down hole cut same leg small scrapes lost shoe but all in all nothing major. Abbcess in front hoof lots of other cuts and scrapes bless him.
 
Old Mare = zero in 12 years of owning her. She's WAY too careful to ever cut herself or anything like that. Not to say she hasn't got health issues, but none were due to accidents. She's never even had a cut or graze.

Barney = zero in 9 years. He's an oaf, but a careful one :D

Now going to go and find some wood to touch :)
 
Oh I lied, old mare did her check ligament doing hand stands out in the paddock - she bucked so high she lost her footing and toppled over...silly old fool. Still not bad :)
 
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