Is your horse broken?

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I reckon a fair few of us have broken horses at the minute.
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Sods law that we miss a gorgeous summer of shows and hacks.

So, who are you and what's wrong with your neds?
 
Colasped hoof wall for scrooge and he's bitten his tounge (hole is so big he's getting food stuck in it!)

Mags is showing his age being stiff and sore

Babies are ok appart from a few cuts from fighting.

Gota love these horses
 
Marius has laminitis - well, he's better now, and just starting ridden walks out.

I am sorry to hear about your boy, BH, and I do hope he comes good in the end. x
 
Nope
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Mine is fixed after almost 4 months off. 1st 4 weeks due to a cut on his leg, then immediatly followed by very very bad case of strangles.

He is now fixed and on a new yard and back in work
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I can finally enjoy the summer and have a healthy horsey
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Hope your horse is fixed soon, we still have a few months left!
 
Yup, she's broken! Wanda has a sicknote until Wednesday when her bloods come back, she's possibly anaemic again! She is also a bit noisy in her breathing but that could have something to do with her being VERY FAT at the moment though.
 
I am riding for the first time tomorrow for 4 weeks as ned has been lame. Cross fingers everything is ok. Although his eye was a bit weep tonight, so who knows!
 
Surgery in jan for spavin just started improving and stood on a 4 inch nail the surgery has caused concussion on front legs and we now have a splint.Horse has been broken since last year deep cannon bone bruise may 2007 then tendon tear(minor) immediately afterwards and bruising of soles.Basically been broken since may last year.
 
Swelling in tendon sheath and windgall - random as there's no heat and it goes down with exercise, and no lameness either.
 
Yup - star is lame again after her spavin treatment, although this time its poss front leg lameness but still no idea why???? May end up breeding from her this year...
 
Fly has bursitis. I'm getting a bit fed up with it now. 8 weeks on and i am up to 35 minutes riding a day. He is out at night now, but being a complete prat, tearing around like a stallion trying his best to wreck his tendon forever!
 
Sorry to hear everyones broken horses!

My Simone has been injured for the past 8 months, she had a stifle operation 2 months ago where it was found she had cartilage damage. She's been on box rest since although thats nearly finished. Got a long way to go though and there's still a chance she won't be ridden again. Gutted as i'd only had her 3 months before she got injured
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Ebbs had a lump taken out which was on her girth line - sent off and came back as an abcess. Stapled up, staples came out Monday morning lovely jubbly, Monday afternoon the wound had ripped open *yuk* so we have left it open as there was probably still some infection in there.... got a nice bit of pus out the other day! So now riding looks more like August, and I stopped riding in the beginning of May as we thought it was a fly bite that would just go away!!
 
yep - Samuelhorse is broken.
Hes got laminitis - not bad, but laminitis... God knows how - been in starvy. lots of hacking and thinner than hes ever been......
Been for xrays and show pedal bones have moved, but that could have been from before i got him...
Farm is having a barbecue tomorrow, so left him a piece of orange laced with sedalin gel in the hope he snoozes through it....
Praying no-one gives him a steak or beer or anything!
 
Wow, a lot of long-term broken horses here!
I'm sure most people know by now
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but Maiden tore her DDFT in February 2007 and is just starting in-hand walking work (she's still not 100% sound, more like 99.9%) after four and a half months of box rest and 12 months turned away. She's permanently broken too; she'll only ever walk out on a hack again, trot if I'm lucky.
My share horse is ok at the mo *touch wood* but another horse I ride is slowly recovering from a very, very severe attack of laminitis.
 
Yep poor Freddie is broken. Is on month 2 of 12 months field rest following tendon and collateral ligament injury.

Have 30 per cent chance of getting him back into work. Trying to be optimistic as Freddie is doing his bit and has been sound in walk and trot (untested anything else) for 10 weeks.

Good luck to everyone - I know how frustrating and upsetting this all is !!
 
One on box rest with a knock to her DDFT in LH. Off till september.

One on box rest after Kissing SPine surgery a week ago. 3months of hand walking and pessoaing ahead of us!
 
Lame because of farrier trimming him too severely. Will be fine once I can get a set of shoes on him tho.
Cant wait. This is my last summer of freedom before I have to grow up and get a real job after graduating Uni next year (Hopefully!!)
 
Mine can never event again due to damaging his suspensory for the second time, even after giving him 2 yrs off. Now he needs to go and mend again just so he can do hacking and dressage. Lots of poorly horses!
 
Broken here also. He hasn't been right since BCA (middle of June). Osteo came out last week and found a tweaked muscle but thought he'd be ok by now (he's not). Hopefully getting a girly on loan next week so I might just have a 'stand in' while he sorts himself and smirks while I throw more money at the vet!!!!!

Flippin' 'orses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
May 07 she went lame, operated on Sept 07, started riding her again in Oct. First show in March 08 came in lame from the field the day before and has now damaged her front suspensory. My friend came to see her in the week and I think she is going to borrow her as a broodmare so I might get to ride her again in Jan 2010.
 
Broken one here, since Easter. Not badly lame, just feeling stiff behind for the odd stride. Referred up to Leahurst and they recommended NB shoes in front and wedges behind but they're not really sure what is wrong with him. Now been lame 3 weeks in front after shoeing. Just got back on him tonight, still not right behind. Vet says to carry on riding him until he either breaks down completely, or he may get better in 6 months to a year.
 
Which one isn't broken?
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Ah yes, out of six of my own, I have a mare and a gelding (and he isn't here) that are relatively intact....now that is tempting fate isn't it?

One stallion violently allergic to something, we don't know for sure quite what yet.
One mare still having one 'lady problem' after another.
One bent foal.
One mare aborted...although she isn't broken as such.

It really makes me wonder why we have them sometimes.
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A, bought October last year, ruptured a peroneus tertius before we'd had her two weeks. Was on box rest for 5 months, after a couple of weeks of walking she then injured her stifle in the stable - back on box rest - when she started walking out again she managed to get a big haematoma on her chest and go very lame (in front for a change) BUT she has been back in work for the last few weeks again and is looking good. *fingers crossed*

Flynn, who I bought as her stand in, managed to drop a leg off the lorry ramp pratting about loading and tear a ligament in his back, taking a chunk of spinous process with it at around L4. We'd done a bit better with him and had him nearly two months! He's been on box rest and is now walking out with a little trotting but has lost SO much muscle. We're not certain that he will come right, he is "sound" but there is lot of stiffness and one-sidedness that may or may not go.

Little Sec D - broken and unrideable. He's old and outgrown anyway but we had him in work and he loves to hack and compete but he had an unexplained fall jumping. Landed safely, cantered three strides and then his front end collapsed whilst the back end kept going so he and my daughter had a crashing fall. Got him checked out as sound so swapped my daughter onto my horse and I took him on and did some hacking, our first veteran show, SJ, XC and ODE all of which he loved. Then I lent him to a young rider who was getting on well with him until he had the same fall - front end collapsed, back end carried on - but this time on a decent surface in an arena doing a slow balanced canter. So we decided that he was only safe ridden in walk and trot and semi-retired him. Then he was badly beaten up in the field and had a severe bite to his neck which resulted in two infected wounds big enough to stick your whole finger in, getting very close to his spine. The stress and illness caused him to lose a huge amount of muscle and I'm too fat to bring him back into work. He was huge fun and really enjoyed what we did up until then but I can't build sufficient muscle for him to carry my weight and in any case there is still his undiagnosed falling over. He's very happy in his field with his girls and well into his 20s so getting a "proper" diagnosis isn't worth it.

Sorry to everyone else with broken horses, fingers crossed that your invalids will start to come right. Four months ago I just though that I was going to have two decent horses on box rest forever,
 
Stitch had a suspected pedal bone fracture that turned out to be abceses in both front feet with a strain on the collateral ligaments in one foot. Yesterday was his first day turned out although in a paddock the size of my living room.
Quin my new boy was kicked in the field two weeks ago. He's just been xrayed and he has a fracture, with bone fragments which are involved in an infection. Normally they'd need to operate but he's also damaged a major ligament which may not withstand the trauma of getting up after anaesthetic. So we are playing a waiting game now when the reports go to a specialist.
I've mucked 28 stables and filled 70 haynets this week when I should have been in Italy at my sister in laws wedding! I'm feeling pretty fed up but my boys come first (plus I don't really get on with the in laws
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I am another one to add to the list.

My Lad has damaged his SF tendon in his right fore. He did it in the field acting like a wally back on the first May bank holiday. (yup the one just before the weather got nice!)

He is still on box rest and we are in week 9 of 12, the vet is rescanning him in 3 weeks and all I am praying for is him being able to be turned out as neither of us are coping to well with box rest.

I am not all that optomistic about him being back in work before xmas, in which case will give him the winter off and pick up again next spring.
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Yes mine too.
Alee is lame on her Right hind, off to vets on Monday but farrier seems to think its something bad....
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Spike just finishing 16 weeks rest post Kissing Spine op. Just be turned out with others for the first time since and OH has sat on him once. Just waiting to get saddler out then fingers crossed we can start getting him back into fitness
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so he is semi fixed.
Then there is murphy who has sacro illiac problems who is hacked out lightly but needs to be on a bute a day. Just realised he is weeing a lot so just waiting for bloods to come back to see if the bute is doing damage
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or if (fingers crossed) he has a urine infection. Trouble with Murphy is he is not a field ornament and doesn't cope just being oput 24/7 he gets grumpy and evil. So if the bute helps him lead a normal life even if it shortens it thats the risk we need to take. He is 15 though so hopefukly won't shorten it too much...
 
Yes my horse has been broken since december 2006
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I've been long lining him for 3 months now and we seem to be making progress so fingers crossed he continues to improve.

My mum's pony has been lame since june last year with spavins and a mystery lameness in front. He's had cortisone injections, adequan, very expensive egg bar shoes with equipack and he's up to his eyeballs on bute and navilox, but he's still lame
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Me too. Georgie pulled a muscle in the field and has been on box rest for 4 weeks. Went ou day before yesterday! Was on tenterhooks checking him yesterday but was all in one peice. Still stiff but hoping being out will now sort that out.
 
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