How could a horse break its pedal bones?

[Montyforever]

Not my horse or a reacent injury just wondering how a horse can break them? Its the hind hooves so maybe kicking something?

Thanks

 

[Wagtail]

Not my horse or a reacent injury just wondering how a horse can break them? Its the hind hooves so maybe kicking something?

Thanks

When horses break a hind pedal bone, it is usually through kicking a concrete wall or similar. Horses can break front pedal bones jumping on hard ground or hooning about on hard ground.

 

[horsies4coursies]

front feet pedal bones fractures very common in racehorses run on hard ground - hind feet pedal bones fractures very commonly occur when horses kick out at hard surfaces like walls

 

[Littlelegs]

Years ago one on the same yard did it in the field, just came in lame one night. Field didn't have anything in it except an old partially graveled foot path that wasn't a right of way or used by public. No sign of any scraps & it was a settled herd anyway. Unlikely to have done it days before & put up with discomfort as horse was the type to hold up its leg & tremble with a tiny graze.

 

[kiritiger]

One on our yard has a fractured (hind) pedal bone from standing on a ground line whilst doing cross-country.

 

[ester]

A friends did it when she had to slam her lorry brakes.. I guess he banged it down pretty hard to stabilise himself.

 

[Cheiro1]

my mare fractured her hind pedal bone in the field one day, was an electric fenced paddock. Vet said only thing she could think was she spun round and landed on the one side of her foot on an odd angle.

 

[Oberon]

I wonder if excessive force from a blow plus thin soles may be a factor?

Also, long term pinching of the corium will lead to demineralisation to the coffin bone and make it weaker.

 

[katherinef]

Arkle's career was ended by a fractured pedal bone

 

[lara b]

My pony when I was a child kicked a fence post and a nail went through her frog and fractured her pedal bone, never came sound :-(