My lami prone mare just escaped from her stable

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...and helped herself to the barrow load of highest energy haylage. Please keep your fingers crossed for her that she's okay. :( I reckon she had two hours out maximum. She wasn't out at 7 but was out at 9.15 and her stable rug was wet though so she's been there a while. Thankfully, she didn't get into the feed room Just stopped at the haylage. Probably couldn't believe her luck! She heard my gasp of horror and turned to look then trotted back into her stable as if she thought I wouldn't notice.
 
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I hope she is ok. :eek:

My ponies ate the best part of a 25kg bag of sheep feed the night before last :eek::o. I was very lucky it wasn't sugar beet as I feed that dry to sheep and it could easily have been that I'd bought :eek:
 
catherinem said:
Naughty pony, bet she thought she was in pony heaven! Fingers x'd shes ok..... Im sure she will be :)
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Thanks. I really hope so. She only just recovered from lami three weeks ago. She has Cushings and insulin resistance, but is on prascend and metformin so hopefully will help her metabolize the extra sugars and protien. I was just going out to give her a net in any case.
 
FfionWinnie said:
I hope she is ok. :eek:

My ponies ate the best part of a 25kg bag of sheep feed the night before last :eek::o. I was very lucky it wasn't sugar beet as I feed that dry to sheep and it could easily have been that I'd bought :eek:
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Blimey, that was lucky. Thank goodnes they are all right.
 
The monkey, at least she had the grace to go back to her box,mine would have stuffed even faster!

Maybe some yea sacc might help to keep the gut ph right if you've got some handy, or activated charcoal to absorb any toxins.

Fingers crossed she will be fine!
 
Wagtail said:
Blimey, that was lucky. Thank goodnes they are all right.
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Had I not known they had done it by the evidence, I wouldn't have twigged. They were neither up nor down but every time I went out to check them, I expected one or more to be dead...

I think the main culprit was a 13.2 welsh as she is the boss. My other mare is 14.1 so could have got into it too, but the small ones probably couldn't reach by the time they might have got a turn so likely split between those two and they only stopped when they had eaten it so low they could no longer reach :o

Years ago I had someone feed a few sheep for me and the feed was measured out in tubs, about a months supply, one tub per day. The person misunderstood the instructions and fed the sheep all of the food in one day :rolleyes: sheep are prone to acidosis if they gorge themselves but they were fine too. Of course it's probably mainly sawdust in the pellets anyway!!
 
touchstone said:
The monkey, at least she had the grace to go back to her box,mine would have stuffed even faster!

Maybe some yea sacc might help to keep the gut ph right if you've got some handy, or activated charcoal to absorb any toxins.

Fingers crossed she will be fine!
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Lol. It is always the ones that do most damage to themselves that break out. The only other horse I have that does it (through electric fencing) just happens to be the other laminitic!

She had some pro hoof in her tea, and I think that has yea sacc in. I worry about her because her last lami attack was after eating too much hay. She is fine on weighed amounts of high fibre horsehage. Hopefully, just one session of over stuffing herself will be okay, especially with the metformin tablets. Will update in the morning.
 
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I am sure she will be ok. Obviously she is lami prone and hence has certain issue but, if it helps, our old horse once broke in to the tack room and ate about half a sack of dried sugar beet and suffered no ill effects. On a separate occasion he broke in again and for some unnown reason helped himself to a load of dry cement!!!

He lived to the ripe old age of 36. I think he was a bit weird!!! :)
 
ladyt25 said:
I am sure she will be ok. Obviously she is lami prone and hence has certain issue but, if it helps, our old horse once broke in to the tack room and ate about half a sack of dried sugar beet and suffered no ill effects. On a separate occasion he broke in again and for some unnown reason helped himself to a load of dry cement!!!

He lived to the ripe old age of 36. I think he was a bit weird!!! :)
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Goodness me! Cement. It's a wonder it didn't kill him. Thanks, that's made me feel less worried.
 
Fingers crossed for her. I too knew one that ate a load of sugar beet with apparently no ill effect. And although I'm not making light of it can't help laughing at the idea of her returning to her box & ladyts cement muncher.
My good doer native x got out once years ago & ate all the yards breakfast feeds, 2 boxes of apples, & a couple of bales of hay amongst other things. Only side effect was that she was a bit miffed at her lack of breakfast when I found her next morning.
 
That's got to be the world's cheekiest horse.. as she trots back in stable she shouts "It wasn't me, it was the fairies over there!".. Hope she's ok after her shenanigans! xx
 
The_angel_littlelegs said:
Fingers crossed for her. I too knew one that ate a load of sugar beet with apparently no ill effect. And although I'm not making light of it can't help laughing at the idea of her returning to her box & ladyts cement muncher.
My good doer native x got out once years ago & ate all the yards breakfast feeds, 2 boxes of apples, & a couple of bales of hay amongst other things. Only side effect was that she was a bit miffed at her lack of breakfast when I found her next morning.
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Lol. That's so funny. Glad she was okay though. :)

Shadeyoak said:
That's got to be the world's cheekiest horse.. as she trots back in stable she shouts "It wasn't me, it was the fairies over there!".. Hope she's ok after her shenanigans! xx
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Yes, she is a card, that one. :rolleyes:
 
Thanks for everyone's reassurance. Thankfully, she walked out of her box and did not appear footy this morning, so hopefully we have got away with it. She is a monkey and can open her top bolt. Usually I put the bottom bolt on and also a safety clip on the bolt. I am really good at remembering to do this. So either I must have forgotten or someone else went in her stable for some reason, which I doubt.
 
They do love to worry us, don't they? Mine was in with a suspected minor tendon injury, 4weeks box rest drove him loopy and on Tuesday he broke away and galloped circles flat out on rock hard frozen ground before I got him back. I was terrified that he'd be lame the next day but the little monkey bounced out sound as a pound. Glad yours is okay.
 
KatPT said:
They do love to worry us, don't they? Mine was in with a suspected minor tendon injury, 4weeks box rest drove him loopy and on Tuesday he broke away and galloped circles flat out on rock hard frozen ground before I got him back. I was terrified that he'd be lame the next day but the little monkey bounced out sound as a pound. Glad yours is okay.
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OMG! :eek:

Thank goodness he was all right.
 
Glad she's ok. What kind of clip does she have on the door? My mare can undo trigger clips, & even the standard lr clips if they require little pressure to push inwards & therefore undo.
 
Fingers crossed for her! Silly horsey. My pony once escaped when My family was away! She was grazing away in e garden-Where there was fern which is poisonous! There was sme of it gone t only a little bit-she Islay now x
 
If its a standard one chances are she won't have done it herself then, which is good because less chance of a repeat performance. As for my mare, its just habit now.
 
The_angel_littlelegs said:
Glad she's ok. What kind of clip does she have on the door? My mare can undo trigger clips, & even the standard lr clips if they require little pressure to push inwards & therefore undo.
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Mine can do this too and blooming quickly too! Standard stable bolts he undoes straight away and he can undo any type of leadrope clip as we've tried them all. Once he works out how to undo each one he does that inrecord time too!

Other than the kick over bolt, the only thing that has kept him in is one of those super secure bolts whre it requires two hands to move the metal flap in order to move the bolt. However, we have put this halfway down him door out of his reach - he knows damn well that is the bolt he neds to get to to open his door and I believe, if it were in his reach he'd blooming open that too!! :)

As fior the cement-muching horse, him and his best bud the donkey used to get up to all sorts. I don't know which one of them actually did the breaking and entering though!! The horse had 9 lives. Once on box rest for a nasty leg injury, wearrived at the stables to find him and his donkey pal out but both stables doors firmly shut - turned out he'd hurled himserlf against the back wall of the stables and managed to break them down. Good job they were wooden and not stone stables!!! That was the first and last time we ever tried stabling him!
 
I have a small Shetland cross companion pony. The other week my OH checked them on his way to work and said that she had escaped from the field she was meant to be in and was in the grass school. By the time I got down an hour later she had put herself back in the correct field with the others and was sleeping in her stable like butter wouldn't melt.

Not only that but my CCTV camera had been knocked so I didn't even catch her walk past it (she must have gone under it's view) if it wasn't for my OH and a pile of poo in the school I would never have known the cheeky minx had done it!
 
glad she appears to be ok after her little naughty not-quite-midnight-snack!! daughters old pony was an absolute nightmare for escaping and eating stuff he shouldn't, his 'best' being a scoop of rat poison he'd somehow managed to hook out from under the tea caravan:eek: stomach of steel that boy though, not even an upset tum the next day:rolleyes:
 
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