how many times has your horse been injured in the last 12mths?

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Having had to have an emergency call out today for my boy I was wondering how many times he has been out of work in the past 12 months. Well he had colic followed by a mystery lameness shortly afterwards. Then went through winter without any issues and since April he has hurt his pelvis followed soon after by his back and since then has been kicked twice. Today's visit resulting in emergency vet. I would perhaps expect multiple issues if he had been a tb as they are renowned for injuring themselves at the slightest thing but he's not exactly a lightweight type. So how many times in the last 12 months has your horse been out of work or indeed have they actually been in work?
 
dont feel bad....we had a vets bill every month for 2 years.....
the first month that we didnt have one we had a celebration with a bottle of wine :)
 
Bought a gorgeous lad eight weeks ago, five stage vetting, x rays, the lot. got him home, bringing him on slowly so no mega work and, bingo, he's done a tendon! I knew things were going too smoothly for me, there's always hassle, that's the way my life is!!
 
TandD said:
dont feel bad....we had a vets bill every month for 2 years.....
the first month that we didnt have one we had a celebration with a bottle of wine :)
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wow that's scary. Was that all for the same horse?


Slightlyfoxed really sorry to hear your horse has damaged his tendon. I hope he recovers fully and is capable of doing the job you had brought him to do.
 
still a big ouch. I bet the insurance company have a large list of exclusions as well on renewal. Sounds like they both have had their fair share of claims.
 
In the past 12 months my girl has had choke, had numerous bites and kicks, one kick was about 3-4 months ago and is still healing! She did this to herself a few months ago ..

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Whatever she did yo cause this also caused her to have some fairly bigs cuts and grazes around her knees and her left leg blew right up and was the size of an elephants leg! She wasn't lame though, tbh she hardly ever is! She currently has a mystery cut under her fetlock which just appeared from nowhere.

In the first month I had her she punctured her hock and was at the vets for a few days then on box rest for a while. After recovering from that I watched her run into a wire fence and get stuck, scraping skin off her legs. After that she had a nasty cut under her chest at the very top of her leg which caused her to hop around for a bit. I've lost count of the scrapes, bangs and little cuts she has had! I've had her for three years and for a horse I was given for free she's turned out to be quite expensive!
 
Ohh, poor boy! Mine is very accident prone as she's so sharp and ridiculous, she tends to react first and think later - has had multiple cuts/bashes to her face from randomly smashing it on doors / fences / walls, as soon as one heals she makes another dent - the latest one being this week, she managed to rip her beautiful face open on the side of the door purely because a horse in the paddock next door coughed. Her only "serious" injury so far is fracturing her splint bone quite badly, she's just coming back into work now and I'm terrified she's going to do some more damage before we get back to "proper" fitness because she spends her whole life prancing and leaping round the field when she's supposed to be taking it steady!
My late gelding was always ill or injured, the vet came round at least once every two months to see him :rolleyes:
 
Twice. Goodness knows how he got away with just 2!!

He jumped out of a stable, he took himself on a 6-ish mile solo hack and crossed a very main road, got caught in barbed wire and many other things...

He's had a bad knee for about 2 months and some nasty scars from the barbed wire accident. Vet is out for the knee on thurs, hopefully. Tried bute, but made no difference...time for an X-ray!

(Note - Bandages ended up making it worse, took them off and just wound powdered them. Under the bandages, there's many more :\)


 
Glad to hear Ned is OK after his adventure - I just adore his ermine markings! Harry has a couple on his hinds, but no where near that striking!
 
Um, where to start :o impaction colic with an overnight stay at the vets, liver problems were discovered so repeat call outs and bloodtests for a couple of months after. Slipping stifle played up for a bit but luckily not bad enough to need the vet. Found her in her stable with blood all down her leg a few months ago! God knows what she did that on :rolleyes:
 
Saying this is probably going to bring me bad luck, but mine has only been off work twice in 20 years. Once lame for a few days from a kick and once from standing on a nail.
 
lots of things when I think about it, thankfully mostly small things. My girl has had 2 abscesses over the winter, but luckily sorted by farrier and myself. she has also pulled off a back shoe is trailer, badly scraping her leg, which is taking a while to heal, only a little scab left. my boy has had physio, as lame left hind, had to spend a month doing in hand work, luckily strengthened his weakness there and been sound. now has seedy toe, went lame for 2 days after farriers took lots out, but now sound. he has had numerous cuts and grazes. also both had mud fever this very long winter. luckily not really lost many riding days, except for lost shoes and a few weeks because of girls abscesses. it has mostly been the weathers fault!
 
I got Emil this time last year. After about a 3 wks he was reahod and he went lame for a fee days. Same happened next time so vet xrays and referral to remedial farrier. Been sound since
However he had gastric ulcers
Then had a really bad respiratory infection. Steroids caused gastric ulcers again
Touch wood he has been fine for about 3 months now:)
Fingers crossed and all that
 
Had choke resulting in vet twice, an ovary out and did a check ligament :/
Touch wood shes doing amazing now and I'm the vets favourite client :/
 
Probably going to jinx myself here but..... she's never been off work injured in the 2 years I've had her with the exception of losing a shoe once!!
 
My Belgian Warmblood seems to have been bullet proof for the four years I've owned him, never been unwell a single day. My Dutch mare however is super accident prone and has had a few incidents this past year. She slipped while galloping about like a loon with her buddies in the field and put her back legs through the fence, shredding them. She, again was galloping around like an idiot and stepped on a rock bruising her sole rather badly. She stuck her head into a tree a little too enthusiastically and sustained fairly substantial wounds below each ear! She was play fighting with her buddies and one of them got a little carried away and bit a chunk out of her neck :eek:

It really is one thing after another with her. Most of it seems to be caused by her mucking about and playing a little too hard. She's still young though, so I'm hoping she'll grow out of this phase.
 
In the last 15 months he has pinged his supensory hooning in the muddy fields (march 12), back out for 6 weeks, got a fractured radius frm a kick (july 08), back out for 8 days in Oct, kicked and refractured. Back out in March 13 and then managed to strain a tendon in the paddock after 3 weeks.... 4 weeks on a horse walker in May and currently turned out and being slowly brought back into work
 
One pony had laminitis 5 years ago, and a very minor bout again 4 years ago, but has been sound as a pound since. Another had an accident in the field about 4 or 5 years ago. All the others (7 in total, but averaging 3-4 at a time) have never had a vet's visit except for routine jabs etc.

We've been very lucky, but they are all hardy natives, living out 24/7, which I think makes a big difference.
 
I seem to have been fantastically lucky so far, not sick or sorry in 10 years. though all horses are time bombs in thr end really :( fills me with dread!

You poor lot, I'd have gone grey by now if I had an accident prone horse :o
 
I've had my lad for 4 years and all was going ok until the last two years when he was diagnosed with ulcers and was unrideable

He then started with nose bleeds while be treated for ulcers and turned out he'd fractured his skull between his eyes and down his face to his nostril and had to have an operation to remove bone chips in December 11

In summer 12 once recovered from fracture he bust his knee open in field.

So over the winter he's been coming back into work when in feb this year he goes lame and after investigation and a MRI we find a broken pedal bone, collateral ligament damage in both fronts and also arthritis in both fronts.... And he's 6 years old

Been on box rest for 4 months and 4 weeks in field were he's galloped round like a loon and came sound?? Doesn't make sense but just started bring him back into work for like the 10th time......
 
Twice - once with a tooth abscess which thankfully cleared up with A/Bs, and once with a leg tweak (I panicked and thought it was a tendon so he spent 2 weeks in the fenced off schooling area in the field). However in 6 1/2 years I rarely have a vets bill from him :)
 
Just in the past 12 months . . .

. . . intermittent lameness resulting in a navicular diagnosis, three months of intermittent box rest/three rounds of antibiotics and endless wrapping/soaking, etc. for mud fever, and surgery to flush his hock joint following a kick in the field (and a week at the vet's).

He is currently sound and, aside from a tweak in the field which resolved after a few days' rest, has remained so since January of this year. Hurrah! (Touches wood frantically).

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Mmmm other than her sight and 1 bout of very mild colic my lass as never been sick or injured in7 years . shes 1 tough old bird but mmmmmm may i have spoken to soon :)
 
My TB is a right EMO and into self harming - we've had a fight with a branch in the field blown down in storms taking most of the skin off her hind cannon - a tiger attack (well it looked like it - probably a fight with the hedge), numerous scratches. Before my time shes has had a knock to the hock and it now has a permanent lump with a scar, her stifles are an absolute mess - I think she was left alone (seperation anxiety - part of her black lipstick and Morrisey image) and tried to escape failing miserably. Horrible scars to one of her hinds from a hunting accident.

The other one suffers from choke - two episodes until the EDT came, although he did say there was nothing wrong with her to make him suspect... we had just changed hay supply to a finer one? A blackthorn in the frog - poulticed for a week. A bought of lymphangitus, AB's & bute.

Apart from that nothing thank goodness ! :p
 
Not much compared to some of these posts!
Horse 1 cut nostril after running into fence when chased by riggy horse and hoof abscess.
Horse 2 nothing
Pony sundry little nicks and scrapes here and there from being basically a mountain goat and perching in unsuitable places to reach some tasty morsel.

All 3 have had the odd seasonal bout of mud fever/rain scald/mild case of lice and hives but nothing too serious, all caught in time and easily treated.
 
Since feb she's had a huge abscess that burst out through her leg, strained her check ligament on the same leg & within a week of being out got really badly kicked, got an infection & back in box rest.
She is just coming back to full fitness! yay
 
I thought my horse had it bad but reading some of these stories on here makes me feel hugely greatful. Other than the last 12mths He has been lame a couple of times and had an accident in the field at our old yard but considering I've owned him almost 5 years now I really have been very lucky with him. I guess these last 12 months have just been unlucky. I just hope the next 12 months will bring considerable improvements to his health and well being.
 
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