My horse must win the 'stupid horse' of the month award.

Bosworth

Bosworth

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This morning I went to turn my horses out and discovered one of them with a large lump on his forehead about the size of my fist. his eyes were swollen as well. So phone call to the vet, trip to the surgery and an endoscopy and xray later, my horse has been diagnosed with a 2cm fracture to his skull - across his forehead level with his eye. Now the mystery, how the hell has he done it. he has no wound, no damage to the skin at all. No mud on his face. In fact no evidence at all to suggest something untoward has happened. He is in with my 3 other horses, all of which are smaller than him, only 1 of which has shoes on. They never kick each other, and surely if it was a kick there would have been damage or mud. Vet and I think he has either headbutted a tree or the ground. But he must have done it with real force to get a fracture the size he has and if so how come no wound. I know he is not a particularly bright horse, in fact we call him a dutch dumblood, but that really is an amazing level of stupidity.
Bless him, I think he has a serious headache, and looks like a bloke with a bad hangover. Hopefully the painkillers and anti inflammatorys will kick in shortly. The vet thinks he will be fine - it will just take about 6 to 8 weeks to heal and he can go out in the field as normal - just no riding.
 
How awful! :( hope he's ok. That is a bit if a mystery to how he's done that! I think the tree, if he hit it straight on and not move to the side then maybe no wound? Not sure... If only they could talk eih!
3 words... One heafty bill?! :eek:
 
Oh dear... some horses just need a warning sign placed above their heads!
About 2 months ago I found my horse lame, with his hind leg swollen double the size it should be with a small cut seeping yellow stuff. Had the vet out, and she said it was trauma (hence the wound seeping yellow stuff, bruising), would normally say kick but the wound wasn't right. Turns out a tree, yes fairly large tree had fallen on him!
You just have to laugh when horses manage to injure themselves so stupidly, and be thankful that they have gotten away with it!
 
Pride ran into a tree yesterday! It was one of those awful moments where you just KNOW whats going to happen. He just lolloped along and clearly expected the tree to move. When the tree didnt move and he ran into it, he looked very confused for a second, then quite cross. He ended up with swelling above his eye and a bump mid forehead.

We were imagining huge vet bills and all sorts of horrible stuff, but today theres no swelling really, just a tiny bump about the size of a 50 pence piece which isnt really sore. The only explanation for this, is that Pride clearly does have a Homer Simpsonesque thick skull with relatively no brains inside it :D

Hope yours is feeling better soon!

Edited to say if theres an award for 'most stupid horse of the month' then Pride has to win it as he ran into another tree today! This one was a fallen tree, but instead of jumping he just ploughed through it, got stuck on the branches, got his front legs over, stopped looked around and waited to be rescued!
 
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