I’ve got your back (literally).

[Annagain]

I had a text from one of the girls at the yard earlier. She went to get her horse in this afternoon and he was adamant he wouldn’t leave Wiggy. Wig has a bite wound on his back and Oscar was licking it and snorting flies that landed on it away. She had to get Wiggy in too for Oscar to come.

They are best mates and always together but I’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s very strange but very sweet behaviour. Has anyone ever seen something similar?

It’s quite a nasty wound, quite deep and there’s a fair bit of swelling around it. I’ve cleaned it, smothered it in filtabac and turned Wig back out in his fly rug.

 

[poiuytrewq]

That's sweet!

My first horse was a little gelding who lived at a big livery yard, they had amazing grazing, really varied, through bits of forestry and with streams running through. It was almost like living in the wild for them.
One day It took me ages to find my horse who was usually with the others all together (about 20 of them)
Eventually located him miles from the others with his little mare friend. put his head collar on but he just wouldnt leave her and was getting upset at me keeping asking. He kept going to her back end (I thought maybe she was in season!)
Turned out she had barbed wire wrapped round her hind leg and couldnt move. Managed to free her and both walked happily back in with me. I think he knew she was in touble and wasnt going to leave her like that.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

I had a Welsh D x TB mare who cut her fore- leg near the knee on a rusty gate at livery. Fortunately, although we could see into the structures, it was only a flesh wound. The vet decided not to stitch it but to leave it to heal from the inside, which necessitated flushing it out twice a day.
We did the flushing in the field, as she had been moved to a different field, quite a distance from the yard after the accident, and when we let her go, she made straight for the Welsh A pony to follow her round the field. We were concerned that she was pestering the pony so we tried taking the pony out.
The 2 others (all been together a long time) didn't want the injured horse near them. So we put the pony back and she made straight for her injured friend, gathered her up and set off round the field. She didn't want her to stiffen up!
We left them to it after that and the leg healed very well, in about a month.

 

[meleeka]

I arrived one day to find my cob didn't come to me, as he always did. My first thought was that he was ill as it was so out of character. When I got to him it was obvious that it wasn't him that was ill, but the horse next door who was in the throes of choke! As soon as I got to them my boy turned and wandered back to the yard as if to say "Oh you are here, you can take over". I phoned the owner and all was well, but I always think of how kind he was in that moment.

 

[planete]

When we lived in north Wales the horses grazed some rocky wooded hillsides. Their nearest fence in sight of the house was down below the house. One day the Ardennes mare came to the fence, looking towards the house and started calling. I went to get her thinking she wanted to come in. She followed me willingly until a particular spot where she point blank refused to move. As she was lifting her head to resist me I looked up and just above us the shetland was stuck on a ledge. He would have been there for a few more hours if she had not come to get me. As it was I was unable to get him off and it took all my OH' s efforts to free him.