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thank You all for your kind words ?
A little update, the vet has been out again today, Tigger has an infection in her leg (which is to be expectEd after seeing all the gunk the vet cut away last night!) she’s on pain meds and antibiotics for the next 5 days bless her. But she’s already much more like her usual self. She even went as far as to be a grumpy moo when she realised her feed was late lol.
its going to be a long road to full recovery, so she’s grounded now lol (or box rest, whichever you prefer ?) but hopefully she’s going to make a full recovery ??
just to answer an earlier question, the dyke is actually fenced off, two lots of electric fencing with a 3 foot gap between them, we think something spooked the horses yesterday as they were all a bit loopy and unfortunately Tigger slipped through the fence. We did have to remove it for the fire brigade and JCBs.
cannot praise the fire brigade enough. They were absolutely fantastic, I dread to think what might have been without them.
 
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Just a wee word of warning for side effects. At work we had a horse fall upside down into a deep ditch. It was horse width and length and depth. Only her feet were sticking up above the level of the ground. How her rider got out I don’t know. Anyway the vet was amazing somehow crawling in and getting a vein, and the fire fighters were in another league. A local farmer was called (I still don’t know how he manages to manoeuvre that track yet to where it was needed) and all we could do was put ropes round each fetlock and lift her up. She of course was sedated but it was incredibly scarey holding her lead rope at that point and hoping she would wake up and get up. (Owner was in back of ambulance, terrified but well, so was left to me ) She was left with bad muscle damage in each leg due to how she was lifted. There was no other way to get her out though. This damage was not apparent at the time. Ok presuming your horse would have had ropes etc on legs. This is not to scare you but just a “heads up” as to possible outcome.
 
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Kamikaze said:
Just a wee word of warning for side effects. At work we had a horse fall upside down into a deep ditch. It was horse width and length and depth. Only her feet were sticking up above the level of the ground. How her rider got out I don’t know. Anyway the vet was amazing somehow crawling in and getting a vein, and the fire fighters were in another league. A local farmer was called (I still don’t know how he manages to manoeuvre that track yet to where it was needed) and all we could do was put ropes round each fetlock and lift her up. She of course was sedated but it was incredibly scarey holding her lead rope at that point and hoping she would wake up and get up. (Owner was in back of ambulance, terrified but well, so was left to me ) She was left with bad muscle damage in each leg due to how she was lifted. There was no other way to get her out though. This damage was not apparent at the time. Ok presuming your horse would have had ropes etc on legs. This is not to scare you but just a “heads up” as to possible outcome.
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They did end up pulling her out with ropes, but luckily she never went under and it was all done very professionally and as gently as they could.
her legs have all been checked numerous times, but obviously we are all keeping an eye on everything, daily vet checks so hopefully we’ll be able to pick up on anything should there be further problems.
the vet has said with her bad leg her ridden career may well be over, but honestly, as long as she’s okay I don’t care.
but thanks for the heads up, will keep an eye on that :)
 
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Tigger&me said:
They did end up pulling her out with ropes, but luckily she never went under and it was all done very professionally and as gently as they could.
her legs have all been checked numerous times, but obviously we are all keeping an eye on everything, daily vet checks so hopefully we’ll be able to pick up on anything should there be further problems.
the vet has said with her bad leg her ridden career may well be over, but honestly, as long as she’s okay I don’t care.
but thanks for the heads up, will keep an eye on that :)
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Just to give you hope, my arab decided to come out of the jockey door of a trailer on to a road and gave himeslf wounds far bigger than your mares.
It took time but he did come back to a ridden career albeit a bit lighter than prior to the accident as he also damaged his back.
 
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Nicnac said:
Glad she's ok. It's very easy for a horse (who are world's best self-harmers as we all know) to slip and go under the fencing trying to get that amazing bit of grass which is just out of reach and end up in a ditch.

My mare did the same, but despite best efforts of the vet and the fire crew with all their equipment managing to get her out she didn't make it as she'd broken her back in the fall.
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I'm sorry ☹
 
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Poor thing. You both must be in shock. I would never have thought of that happening. I've never fenced off drains. It didn't occur to me that they could fall in. Luckily she's safe now.
 
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My friend's old horse got stuck in a stream. He was eventually removed ok but the after effects for him were that the skin on his legs peeled off over a period of time. Quite a mess but he made a full recovery.
 
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