LittleD
Member
Hello, I could use a little advice here please, 3 months ago my horse came in lame with a check ligament injury, box rest was recomended with bute and then a scan a week later to assess the severity of the injury. After another few weeks rest with walking in hand, Vet decided he was now 99.9% sound and could go out in a small paddock for a couple of hours a day, I left him in a little longer than this while sorting our electric fencing etc and then turned him out slightly sedated for the first couple of days then let him out for a couple of hours without sedation and this was fine until we had really bad frosts at night making the road to the field icy and the field itself hard and pretty much "grassless", I am therefore keeping him back in his stable, he is walked out for half an hour in the indoor school and is very lightly lunged without the lunge line, letting him throw a bit of trot if and when he feels like it, he can be ridden now and the vet recommended walk building up to a little trot work. The help I need here is that my heart is ruling my head, first of all I feel really cruel keeping him in but after a recent injury and all this ice I'm scared he will do himself more damage and the second thing is I feel mean keeping him in and then expecting him to be ridden - it's like he has no fun just box rest and tacked up what do you all think if our situation, sorry to ramble but it's giving me sleepless night worrying about him, by the way he has access to ad-lib haylage and a couple of bowls of chaff and fruit and veg a day and there are a couple of other horses in the same block on box rest, thanks in advance.