My horse ate half a bin of dry speedi beet!!

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I really can't get my head round this one. After being absolutely meticulous with this broken, difficult, problem riddled ex racehorse he got into the tack/feed room at the back of his stable some time between 7pm Sunday eve and 7am Monday morning. I usually have a clip on it but I moved stable and misplaced it and hadn't got round to putting one back on (plus the boots are really quite stiff and plenty of people on yard don't padlock them at all).

I have spent hours and hours researching into all his problems, thousands of pounds on vet bills, insurance excesses, chiro, physio, dentists. I've micro managed everything about him to try and help him with all his problems. He's had vet visit after vet visit for lameness, infected cuts, ulcers, skin problems etc in the last 5 months since I took him off the track. And I nearly bloody kill him myself with this. And the one thing which surely should have finished him off didn't even require a visit? Half a bin (equivalent to about 15kg) of unsoaked beet. Half a bin of grass chaff. An entire bag of horse treats. And he still asked for breakfast and didn't show a single sign of colic despite me watching him all day and my vet being on stand by waiting for my call.

He really is unbelievable. A little scratch causes an entire blown and infected leg but apparently he has a stomach of steel? I think he's going to out live me because I will soon be finished off from the sheer stress of him!

Edited to add.... Yes it's ok to laugh.... I did when I saw what he had done (I love him really and it's better than crying!!!)
 
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I am sending you some money for therapy :o

You must have been really bad in a previous life :D

Look on the bright side, it hasn't needed a Vet visit - tick :)
 
LJR said:
I am sending you some money for therapy :o

You must have been really bad in a previous life :D

Look on the bright side, it hasn't needed a Vet visit - tick :)
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I really must have. I'm just not sure what it is yet. But how ironic if after all this it was my own bloody carelessness that finally finished him off!!!!! Lol!
 
I'm really sorry but I am laughing at this! When I saw who made the thread my instant thought was - I bet it was that bloomin TB! He really is trying you in every way shape and form! On the plus side he didn't need a vets visit and lets hope that continues!

At least you know you have a well fed horse ...
 
EKW said:
I'm really sorry but I am laughing at this! When I saw who made the thread my instant thought was - I bet it was that bloomin TB! He really is trying you in every way shape and form! On the plus side he didn't need a vets visit and lets hope that continues!

At least you know you have a well fed horse ...
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Is it really bad that I laughed when I saw what he had done? As did my vet when I called her??? I really do love him and care but when I arrived at the yard and saw what he had done I found it more funny than distressing. I think he's broken me.....
 
I think he needs his own tv show! He's clearly a character. Am glad to,hear you haven't crumpled into a heap at all his antics but I do hope you get some peace soon too!
 
OldNag said:
Is it wrong that it made me laugh?

I bet you were bedside yourself with worry. Must have been a very anxious day on standby.
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Sounds awful but I really wasn't. I've cried and worried and stressed over him over so many things but with this I had this weird calm sense of what will be will be. Turned him out with a muzzle on for half the day, took away the water (tricky one that- don't want him to dehydrate but equally don't want that speedi beet swelling) and left it in the hands of fate! Apparently he's sticking around lol! But I am of course very very glad he's ok :)
 
I feel your pain. My 'hardy' native gave himself a corneal ulcer with his hay, lymphangitis followed by full blown laminitis after a fly bite got infected, colic after gettin through his electric onto short winter grass for 3 hours and yet he broke into the hay shed ate a whole bale of hay which usually lasts 10 days and half a sack of hay replacement cubes without a sign of anything !! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I laughed too !
 
JLD said:
I feel your pain. My 'hardy' native gave himself a corneal ulcer with his hay, lymphangitis followed by full blown laminitis after a fly bite got infected, colic after gettin through his electric onto short winter grass for 3 hours and yet he broke into the hay shed ate a whole bale of hay which usually lasts 10 days and half a sack of hay replacement cubes without a sign of anything !! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I laughed too !
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Hahaha even worse that yours is supposed to be hardy! No way would he have been getting colic surgery either so he clearly knew he better not bloody try it lol!
 
Michen said:
Is it really bad that I laughed when I saw what he had done? As did my vet when I called her??? I really do love him and care but when I arrived at the yard and saw what he had done I found it more funny than distressing. I think he's broken me.....
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Not at all - I have a 'characterful' horse (described by others as a 'liability') & honestly, laughing is the only way!

He too has eaten dry feed which should be soaked, with no I'll effect. Nor did he have any ill effect when he let himself out the stable & ate all the other horses breakfast, chewed a rug that had been left too close to his reach, tried & failed to climb the muck heap, jumped out of a horsebox or the time he escaped out of his field & spent twenty minutes trotting & cantering around the yard quite merrily before being cajoled into being caught by my at the time ever-increasingly hysterical YM ... The list goes on!

But a small fly bite where his girth goes? Absolutely no riding for at least a week ...!

Honestly, laughing is the best way forward :)
 
Does sound like one of my tbs.

He got out of his stable on a big yard and went round eating all the breakfasts that had been left outside each horse's stable for the following day, There were all sorts of medications and supplements including unsuitable things like Regumate and Oestress added to the feeds.

Vet was up there anyway the following morning to see another horse and while he didn't have colic, he did have that post christmas dinner "shouldn't have had that second helping" look. So vet advised to keep an eye not let him eat anything so he was moved into a matted box so he couldn't eat his bed. He's allergic to shavings so no bed.

By the time I got there in the afternoon, he was in a foul mood as he'd had nothing to eat and as there was no bed he'd had to wee straight onto the mats which he hates. When I looked over the stable door he tiptoed round the edge of th box in disgust trying to keep his feet out of the wet bits and made it very clear he was not happy.

This horse cost NFU about £20,000 in various claims till he managed to achieve something career ending. Now retired he's not insured but manages vets call outs. Mystery nose bleed and an ulcerated cornea being two of the recent ones.
 
Am sending round a man in a white coat for you! :D

Honestly, these blooming nags. Mine helped himself to sugar beet nuts once by breaking down a door. It was a bit of a frantic dash out of work and 1/2hr drive to see him. Glad he's ok though.
 
Hes a lucky horse. I went to view a pony last week to get a txt message 10 minutes before due to be there to say sorry have to cancell! Carried on as wasnt a local trip to find said pony sedated and being stomach tubed by the vet. Owners non horsey relative had put pony in stable to dry for my visit and left a bag of feed in there that had to be fed soaked, pony helped herself and gave herself a gastric impaction. Cue lots of vet visits and tubing over 2 days to try and soften it up and flush out as much as poss and to make sure she didnt colic or get laminitis. Vet checked her on friday to find it had all cleared and checked her again yesterday to make sure no signs of laminitis. Once shes had some time over easter to recover I will go and view her again.
 
they're little horrors aren't they!?

If he ate half a bin of grass chaff alongside it then that's probably what's stopped him colicking - a horse feed rep (for one of the big compnaies) once told me that if you fed enough chaff or other fibre along side it then you didn't actually have to soak beet, but that obviously they can't tell you that commercially or the minute a horse got colic you'd be blaming them.

glad he's ok!
 
I noticed my two had disappeared from the yard once and asked my husband if he'd seen them/put them out but no. I then heard a little scrape of shoe on concrete and found they were both wedged in the feed room. Like Michen I'd not put the clip on properly and they'd sneaked inside. In the process of squeezing in they'd shut the door tightly behind them and turned the light on! Luckily as it was summer the feed bins were pretty much empty and properly shut and once they had tipped them over and found the lids didn't come off they worked their way through a fair amount of hay judging by the poos on the floor and were having a little snooze when I found them.

They looked more than a little sheepish and were quite happy to come out and have a drink - naughty boys!
 
Well he's still alive and kicking so I think it's safe to say he's out of the woods. Little does he know he's having all food removed at 8pm for scope number 3 tomorrow. Or perhaps he did know and that's why he decided to stockpile speedibeet into his tummy....
 
Michen said:
Well he's still alive and kicking so I think it's safe to say he's out of the woods. Little does he know he's having all food removed at 8pm for scope number 3 tomorrow. Or perhaps he did know and that's why he decided to stockpile speedibeet into his tummy....
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Lock all doors and windows, bolt down and clip, tie, super glue and weld everything shut so he defos can't escape before his scope lol!
 
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