How accident prone is your horse?

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As the title really.

My answer seems to be very. Thankfully just very minor things so far *phew*. I check the field every day and really do not know how she does it :/. Still starting to feel like a terrible mummy
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Very! My TB is always covered in small cuts and scrapes. He's really dozy though and I've seen him whack his nose on the stable door numerous times on his way up from his hay/water to look out the door.
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As you've said - I'm just thankful it's nothing worse! *crosses fingers*

My Welsh mare is the complete opposite though - I think the only bit of 'first aid' I've ever had to administer was when she had slight mud fever last winter.

I'm just as bad as the TB though - always seem to come home from the yard with cuts and scrapes (am never quite sure how I've got them though
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ETA Obviously like people some horses are just more accident prone than others! It's definitely no indication of the level of care you're providing!
 
Beau is quite accident prone, well not accident prone but he comes in every day with a new cut or other, usually only small though, becasue he is so nosey and inquisitive I think!

Lance never comes in with a scratch on him!
 
Mine has fallen asleep when his head was hanging over the door, his head on the top of the door, dring a bottom tooth through his top lip. Idiot!
 
Ed isn' too bad but when he does have an accident it is always weird and cannot find an explaination about! The last one he had consisted of several long cuts all he way up the inside his hind leg from his hock upwards. They weren't cuts as such as they hadn't cut the skin and he had no shoes on weird pony.
 
Oh yes - if any horse is gonna go down ill with something its mine!!! Hes allergic to - mollasses, wheat, barley, maize and soya... oh and flies and pollen and the mould spores in hay and haylage and straw.....hes also prone to thrush and white line disease, has to wear fetlock boots as his fetlocks brush together and that has made him go lame before without the boots to protect him....he has COPD and is currently on an inhalor....oh and right now he has conjunctivitis, luckily at its non infectious stage atm so lets hope it doesnt develop!!
 
One of out horses us very accident prone ( Tex)

He is only three but there is not way it can be atributed to youth. I have never seen anything like it!
He is not fence savvy at all and has busted through and jumped out of his fencing many times.

One time he even ran straight into a metal bar gate at a full gallop and bent it in half!

He is just a bit of a psyco at times but oddly very easy to handle when in hand or anything else. He will make a fabulous horse when in the control of someone but may need to live his life out in a 7 ft tall roundpen I am afraid.
 
my horse is awful....! He has had so many issues I can not quite believe it really....!
My ponies never did...
When I first got him on the first day he had his fly sheet on he managed to scrap his side on something and rip off half his skin which unfortunately has scarred! When I swapped fields with him he managed to run straight into the barbed wire and cut up all his back legs...! I was up most of the night bathing and wound powdering them!
Often has cuts on his back legs and just found that due to his fly mask he has managed to develop a huge lump under his throat which at first I freaked and thought might be strangles....vet came out and it is actually scar tissue from the mask rubbing!!
Just put his snuggy hood on which cost an arm and leg and he managed to achieve a bump on his nose from the elastic so not only have a lump under his throat but one on the front of his face!! Thankfully it did go down and the snuggy hood has been stretched to stop it happening again....was thinking about showing him but might leave it ...!!
 
My horse is very accident prone, he seems to have a new cut on him almost every day, sometimes it is from playing in the field but he also manages to cut himself in his stable, fortunately they are all minor though (so far,...runs to touch wood!)
 
Mine is not accident prone but when something does go wrong it usually seems to end up with complications... she was kicked in the field and first her leg got all infected then she got 'mud fever' type symptoms from under the bandages and then when the bandages came off she got cellulitis.
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Touch wood though, first serious injury she's had since I've owned her, she seems to be a fairly hardy old stick generally considering she does lots of road work and the old gallop on not always the best ground (we have limited galloping facilities so take advantage of all sorts of horrid little tracks etc)
 
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