AmiRobertson
Well-Known Member
As some of you may or may not know I moved my horse to a new yard a few weeks ago and since then she has been loopy. Rearing, napping and refusing to go in her stable. Everyone including myself has put it down to her not settling very well. My instructor has been encouraging me to ride her more to get her into a proper work routine (gentle 20min sessions) despite this she has not got any better erratic rearing for no apparent reason and panicking. She squashed my SIL over the weekend and my family started to encourage me to think about selling her as my confidence is in pieces.
I had the vet out today as despite the move I knew deep down something wasn't right. She hit her head on the trailer when trying to load her to move and was kicked by the eye on day two with the herd. Both seemingly cosmetic injuries. The vet confirmed this morning that she is been in pain and its likely damage to her poll. To what extent we won't know until we X-ray next week.
She is on 4 bute a day for the next week and is only to be handled in her comfort poll bridle and if she rears I have to let her and not try and stop her. I have asked the YO to be the only one apart from me to handle her as I don't want anyone getting hurt or hurting her (there are several other grooms on the yard).
My poor horse has yet again had to prove her honesty and how beautiful her temperament is to me because to be quite honest she had every right to have me on the floor when I rode her.
It's a lesson they NEVER do things without reason be it pain or behaviour and its our responsibility as their owners to listen.
I had the vet out today as despite the move I knew deep down something wasn't right. She hit her head on the trailer when trying to load her to move and was kicked by the eye on day two with the herd. Both seemingly cosmetic injuries. The vet confirmed this morning that she is been in pain and its likely damage to her poll. To what extent we won't know until we X-ray next week.
She is on 4 bute a day for the next week and is only to be handled in her comfort poll bridle and if she rears I have to let her and not try and stop her. I have asked the YO to be the only one apart from me to handle her as I don't want anyone getting hurt or hurting her (there are several other grooms on the yard).
My poor horse has yet again had to prove her honesty and how beautiful her temperament is to me because to be quite honest she had every right to have me on the floor when I rode her.
It's a lesson they NEVER do things without reason be it pain or behaviour and its our responsibility as their owners to listen.
I just wanted to post about it to share the point so hopefully more people will want to check for pain before assuming its behaviour and the horse suffers further. They are such amazing tolerant creatures and I know that I am not the most experienced of people and probably shouldn't have a 4yr old tb but this is the biggest lesson she has taught me so far.
