Oh **** Might have a BOGOF

Was just watching the Yorkshire vet checking cows like this: how can he be so accurate on how far along they are? I mean, he was debating either 6 or 7 weeks! All respect, his glove was of course covered in **** to the shoulder.
 
Here's the fat tart from a couple of weeks ago.

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She has mostly been looking like a hippo.

Still fat, but no longer pregnancy shaped - she was sticking out less a couple of days before the test results came back and she has continued to revert to a more normal shape.

I'm hoping to start riding her again in the new year, I've actually only sat on her five times since she arrived in August! She has been having treatment for a long-standing back problem and that has altered her shape too. I still haven't decided what to do with her - maybe rodeo horse after seeing her antics in the field today. Eeeep! :D
 
cinnamontoast said:
I think you might be doing it wrong!!

Ffionwinnie, how exciting! From that nice little cob?
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Sorry didn't see this until now. Not from my coloured cob no, she can't be bred from as PSSM is a dominant gene. It's my palomino Welsh D and I've used a RID so hoping to produce something rather like the coloured cob but bigger with less white bits lol
 
I'm really pleased to see another pic of her. So interested from your first post and will be following. Hope the back problem gets sorted - she's lucky to have been bought by someone that will do that for her.
 
I managed to actually get a photo of her not looking like a weird mule/shark hybrid, looking grouchy, or eating the camera!

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She is a sweet horse and sadly for her, someone has taken advantage of her good nature. She wasn't as described when I rode her the first time, that's for sure! I thought this quiet, level-headed lazy horse was going to explode, or whip round and bolt for home. And then explode. I put it down to having been moved around a lot and not quite settled yet. She certainly wasn't lazy, but she didn't want to go forward and seemed to be near a state of panic most of the time. Better the second time I rode her, but not much; she was still verging on taking flight - not a nice experience! I wasn't asking her to do much, just walk and trot in the field, couple of large circles and a few basic transitions, she seemed to settle a bit, so I asked her to canter up the hill. Oh heck! I'm not sure whether she bucked or what, but she sort of shot forward, her ears went flat back, her tail clamped down and she bogged off up the field. I calmed her down and asked again, pretty much the same. She hacked out ok, still not wanting to go forward much and her behaviour under saddle didn't match up with her personality if that makes sense? So I got the vet out.

Verdict? Pretty much sound legwise, very very tight in her lumbar region. Vet was all for going straight in with the x-rays, but I decided to go with chiro and physio to start with, to see if she could be 'freed-up'. So far, so good. I haven't tried to ride her yet, as she needs groundwork and I only have a swamp available as the moment but fingers crossed she'll come right.

It very much appears that she has been ridden in a saddle that either didn't fit, or was damaged in some way (broken/twisted tree maybe), or both. She's so honest that she kept going, even when she couldn't and by her behaviour, I think she has been asked, tried to do it, failed and been punished for it. Probably more through ignorance than malice, but the result is the same for her.
 
Might be worth a test for PSSM. I know its the new "thing" everyone keeps talking about but shes the right breed for it and it does sound like she has some of the symptoms.
 
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