Gingernags
Well-Known Member
The way we have the field split, B&I have most of it, A has about a third, but the water trough is in their bit. So we have the gate pinned back in A's side and a small area around the trough in the next field fenced off for A to use that.
Last year YO decided to find where a pipe/cable ran in the field and originally had it marked with leccy fence posts, but then laid a sheet of really solid metal over the top. The horses just ignore it or walk over it, we thought no more about it as they were happy to avoid it. What we didn't realise is there is a hole under it...
So last night, Asti comes to see me, front foot and leg (leading leg really) disappears down a hole under the sheet of metal. Luckily that mare is not a panicky type at all and stayed behind the leg (as in didn;t move forward at all) and pulled it back out at the same angle it slid in, if she'd carried on walking forward, she'd have snapped her leg.
Cue A the drama queen standing on three legs dangling the affected one in the air to scare the bejaysus out of me. I went and checked it, by this point she was weight bearing to the tune of being able to paw the ground madly with said affected foot... But she also managed to run away (well walked off briskly but sound) when I appeared with saline to flush the cut and some cream to put on... big wuss.
Anyway - this is was she put her foot down...
Sheet of metal:-
Where her foot slid under:-
How lucky we were - it could have been so much worse!
And a gratutious photo of big belly in her field this morning, a different field obviously!
Last year YO decided to find where a pipe/cable ran in the field and originally had it marked with leccy fence posts, but then laid a sheet of really solid metal over the top. The horses just ignore it or walk over it, we thought no more about it as they were happy to avoid it. What we didn't realise is there is a hole under it...
So last night, Asti comes to see me, front foot and leg (leading leg really) disappears down a hole under the sheet of metal. Luckily that mare is not a panicky type at all and stayed behind the leg (as in didn;t move forward at all) and pulled it back out at the same angle it slid in, if she'd carried on walking forward, she'd have snapped her leg.
Cue A the drama queen standing on three legs dangling the affected one in the air to scare the bejaysus out of me. I went and checked it, by this point she was weight bearing to the tune of being able to paw the ground madly with said affected foot... But she also managed to run away (well walked off briskly but sound) when I appeared with saline to flush the cut and some cream to put on... big wuss.
Anyway - this is was she put her foot down...
Sheet of metal:-
Where her foot slid under:-
How lucky we were - it could have been so much worse!
And a gratutious photo of big belly in her field this morning, a different field obviously!
