Ideas???

[PC Steele]

Over the last few weeks when I go to pick my geldings off hind up, he is a bit reluctant but not too bad. The problem is when I put it down it just ‘drops’ toe down and I have to then move him over so he will put his foot down. Not lame. Any ideas????

 

[sunshine100*]

Over the last few weeks when I go to pick my geldings off hind up, he is a bit reluctant but not too bad. The problem is when I put it down it just ‘drops’ toe down and I have to then move him over so he will put his foot down. Not lame. Any ideas????

could be abscess-get the farrier out asap-they will then rec vet if it is not!

 

[Shay]

We had a horse on trial during the summer who would do this. Bit reluctant to pick up and when you put the hoof down he would just leave it where you put it - usually toe downward. On vetting it turned out that he had nerve compression in the hindquarters - basically early stage wobbler syndrome. We didn't persist with that one but it would have been manageable if we already owned him. If not something in the back I would be looking toward hock pain. IME foot abscesses are more dramatic than a reluctance to pick up / lack of limb awareness. (Or I have prima donna horses!)

 

[Equi]

Something for the vet to look at. You can get 100 different stories of a horse doing this, and none of them could be whats happening here. Just to throw my own in, pony at the yard was reluctant to move forward and physio who was due out anyway noted he put his feet where they were dropped and you physically had to move him with all your weight to get him to wear his own weight in order to lift another leg. Turned out he was gowing through a weird growth spurt and his hind knees were wobbly.