Now he's kicked

[parsley]

Put my boy out with his new field companions this morning after riding out with one of them and all went well. We then turned the other horse out who rushed up to see my boy. The other horse decided that this was HIS friend and so tried to chase my boy off. My boy turned around and they started really doublebarreling each other. Went over to see if there was any damage and my boy seems to have caught himself on the inside of his cannon bone. Its stopped bleeding and he isn't lame so I have smeared it with green oil ointment and left them out there as they have to be together. I have been back and checked them and the other horses are keeping away now.

I hate putting horses together - it always seems to be mine that hurts himself.

 

[ruscara]

I hate it the first few hours of putting new companions together. Let's hope that the damage isn't too bad, and that they have now settled their differences and all will be well. It often doesn't take them long to establish who's boss, and once they have done that, there is no more aggro.
Hope Bomber isn't too badly bruised. It could have been a lot worse, though.

 

[tremorfa]

I NEVER put three horses in together. It's a bad number. I lost a beautiful American saddlebred cremello this way. It was an expensive( in tears)lesson but well learned.

 

[_April_]

I look back in horror at some of the PC camps I went to where about 15 horses/ponies were all just thrown in together!

Would never do that now but it was just the done thing at the time, wonder what they do now. I guess ponies can be smarter than horses and thats why there are less dramas.

Its so tense the first time you put new ones together. Hopefully they have got it out of their system and can settle down now

 

[Enfys]

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I look back in horror at some of the PC camps I went to where about 15 horses/ponies were all just thrown in together!

Would never do that now but it was just the done thing at the time, wonder what they do now. I guess ponies can be smarter than horses and thats why there are less dramas.

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It still happens!

We used to take ponies away to a trekking centre near a beach in Wales for camp and about 20 ponies were just put in a sand school together, I used to cringe, but amazingly there were very few squabbles. The ponies did, I suppose, know each other from rallies, but even so. I drove everyone mad putting out about 30 piles of hay.

Parsley, I hope your boy gets better very quickly and that this is the only incident you have.