Is anyone else's horse totally accident prone ?

[Horseback Rider]

Am wondering if it's just mine !! Everday when I bring him in he has got a new cut or bite. I know he asks for as he is always annoying his two friends but he's a TB and always comes of worse than they do.

I put them all in a new field the other day and he was the only one that decided to stretch his head over the fence and take all the skin off his nose in the bramble bush !!

 

[Kayfm]

my warmblood is the same. Always poking his nose where it is not wanted. Is also very very playfull in the field, so often comes in with bites. If a horse is going to get hurt, then it will be him.

 

[stilltrying]

Oh yes…..here is our little list spanning the last 5 years. In no particular order:

Got chased by horse in field and tried to run between a trailer and a barbed wire fence, got stuck and cut side open.
Got chased by horse in field, tried to jump wire fence, got tangled and flipped over.
Got kicked by another horse so hard on the quarters he was knocked over.
Continuous and bite marks too numerous to mention – current one is a skinned hind leg
Skinned top of head on top of stable door.
Cut head open in stable.
Head injury in field above eye – eye totally closed up like a boxer!
Pulled front shoes off then stood on toe clip with barefoot hind and punctured sole.
While furiously rubbing his head on his haynet (which was attached to the trailer) the haynet moved and he head butted his trailer, leaped backwards and head butted me knocking me flat on my back!
Fallen over several times both in hand and ridden.

Also, other ‘death wish’ acts include:
Eating a whole carrier bag (I found it in his poo in the stable)
Eating my mobile phone – most of it I got out of his mouth but some casing missing
Almost eaten (i.e. had to be removed from back of mouth) include: scissors, a pair of clippers, hoof picks, my car keys….
And I think the best was letting himself out of his field, letting himself into the sand school, pulling off the electrical cabling that was tacked to the fencing and chewing through it and cutting the power to the house and yard (we got asked to leave shortly after this)

There are many more I’m sure….

 

[Hippona]

Glad its not just mine.....full of scrapes/cuts...plus he's grey whith black skin so things look hideous until the hair comes back.

He's bloomin high maintenance...my other one and OH's mare are hardcore no-bother good-doers. Mines a poofy lightweight delicate flower...any cut turns into an infected swollen leg.....a kick in the field ended up as a fractured cannon-bone......he's been known to injure himself in the stable, and in a small turnout paddock in about 5mins flat he kicked his own leg and cut it......

Gotta laugh.....or rip your hair out

 

[Kayfm]

OMG - Bless him

 

[Horseback Rider]

Ha Poppymoo & Stilltrying, thanks you have made me see the funny side of it all !!

People at my yard think I am a bit over zealous the way I clean and faff with any cut, but he has a tendancy for the slightest little nick to turn septic and swell up his whole leg.

The insurance companies must think we make half of these up

 

[hussar]

Oh, yes. Our list is a bit shorter than Stilltrying's but we're working on it:

Caught hind leg in wire fence
Fractured lower jaw
Caught chest on gate latch and needed staples
Ski-ed downhill and produced thoroughpin
Slipped into deep dry wheelrut and tore DDFT
Fell in rabbit hole and skinned knees, pasterns and face
Caught leg in rope while tied to trailer and ensuing major panic resulted in numerous cuts, scrapes and lameness
Many many unexplained cuts and lumps despite being boss horse!

 

[muddy_grey]

My old TB was always gettings hurt. He was too stupid to run away when other horses went for him and would end up pinned in a corner. Tried turning him out alone, but he would just jump the fence to be beaten up.
Also got stuck in his stable, regularly walked into things (both ridden and not).
We even got knocked over twice by other horse out hacking totally not his fault.
Had a huge puncture wound on his shoulder one day after being out alone and I scoured the field to no avail.
He could do himself damage in a padded cell!

 

[TallyHo123]

Yep my TB is exactly the same!
In 6 months of owning her she had choke twice, mud fever, a skin condition that vets still not sure what it was and went bald all over her shoulders, 2 abcesses, loads of bites/kicks/cuts, suspected tendon injury and probably more i have forgotten!

 

[Horseback Rider]

Mine spent his first night in last night and my friend who put him out has just txt to say he was all in one piece this morning - everything crossed for today in the field !

No one ever mentions this when you are thinking of buying a TB do they !!


Woudl be great if there was a specialist insurer for this type of horse!

 

[criso]

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Woudl be great if there was a specialist insurer for this type of horse!

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No imagine the premiums. Currently our vets bills get subsidised by other tougher types.

Reading through made me laugh but also remembered a couple of incidents.
Getting hold of my purse, opening it and eating contents. About 12 pound coins never did turn up.
Getting my jacket, removing my mobile from the inside pocket and had it in his mouth when he was caught.
Getting frustrated with his likkit boredom breaker, attacking it with so much force it swung back and brained him. Eye swollen up like a prize fighter.
Did the splits in his stable and was so melodramatic with the pain that he was rushed to hospital and stuck under observation on cross ties with possible broken pelvis.
2 days of tests later and a 4 figure vet bill to tell me nothing seriously wrong. Rest for a few days.

He's not stupid, in fact the opposite is the problem, he is very bright and very curious and very playful so the whole world has to be explored with great energy using hooves and teeth and everybody has to come and play even when they don't want to.
He thinks he is indestructible until he realises he isn't and then limping over for sympathy.

 

[Hippona]

Lol!

Seems to be the playful 'active' types who keep damaging themselves...

I just remembered...couple of years ago I took daughter in the woods next to yard for a hack...was leading her along and watching the horses having a mad hoolie in the field....guess which one fell over for no apparant reason?......yep...the deranged grey one. Mercifully he was ok that time.....currently he has a miniscule cut on his hind leg...which has resulted in a filled leg on a morning...goes down overnight but mostly I am spending my time cold-hosing the git

 

[criso]

He's the bay. The thing about this picture is it says alot about his attitude to life. The angle is misleading though and doesn't show how much bigger the ISH (mainly draft) he is about to take on is.