OUCH!!! Has your horse ever ..................KICKED YOU!!!!!

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….. long sorry!

Tonight my beloved TB managed to kick me, no malice but he did and it hurt!

….Whilst it was still light at just before 6 tonight I thought I would let my old boy out of his starvation paddock to have a lovely stretch leg and a groom with my TB before tea....... said TB was the other side of his paddock and I have to contain him in his smaller night paddock before I can let my old boy out, as toooooooooo much grass in the bigger paddock (my old boy is a Cushings sufferer … which is another story!) …… he (TB) saw me and thought, “well here she is at last about time too I have been waiting for my tea too long now and the midges are annoying me” so promptly raced over, through a small gate in the leccy fence into his night paddock (sounds complicated but it’s not!), he then promptly popped back into the other paddock, so I asked him very nicely to come back through the gap, which he promptly obliged and I then hooked up the tape and started to move away from the gate……… in that split second he came back to the gate and realised that he could not go through and turned and did the biggest buck and twist EVER and as he did so caught my left middle arm above my elbow with his off hind OUCH (it was like a man had thumped me using the biggest blow he could muster!)… I just stood there silent and then the anger set in and the realisation of what could have happened …..but we won’t go there!

My arm hurts as I am left handed and already found that it hurts more to… wheel the barrow for poo picking, hang up the hay net, change to 2nd gear, turn the radio on …………….and now pouring out my Bacardi ( lovely have you tried the Bacardi Berry, Raspberry flavour? yum yum and my arms seems much better already..... numb I think!!!)….. and I want to put down some rubber matting to bring them in for the winter tomorrow and not too sure how bad my arm will be in the morning….. damned horses who would have them!

……..if you have got this far …..now I have written it down I am not sooooooooooo angy with him!!!…. but it got me thinking I must not be the only one out there!! and wondered what other experiences you guys have had?

…I am just going for a shower and to have a look at the damage to my arm ……………
 
We had a welsh A who kicked, he kicked my dad once, and he booted him back so hard in the ribs that he never tried again. We had another WB who kicked, before he came to us he had broken 2 grooms legs, but we werent kicked, we were just very careful. We also had a shetty who would kick given the chance, but she never got the chance.

Hope your OK, I think the hordest thing in a way is remebering all horses can kick even if they are good normally, its easy to be very careful around one who is nasty, but its often the ones who do it very rarely who cause real problems.
 
I got kicked by a friends horse while clipping it for her it hurt a lot luckly we were doing it in he stable and i landed on the banks. I hope you recover soon I know it hurts lots
 
i led 2 ponies through one of my fields, and one of my youngsters came over and lashed out at them while i was standing between them with my back against the gate. nowhere to go, and he got me very hard just above the knee.
same horse, 8 yrs later, got me while being clipped... same place. luckily i was bending in to do his tummy, and didn't have my knee straight, as it would have broken my leg otherwise. still have the lump in my quad.
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one mare smashed my new clippers out of my hand to make her point...
that's about it, quite enough really!
poor you. frozen peas on it, as much as you can bear. and arnica, topically and orally.
 
hi guys ... it really helps to know that I am not the only one out there .... I have been round horses for many many years and although I know my TB gets a bit excited at times I really did get caught out ... just examined the damage and found a very large lump on my arm with a BIG bruise coming, but I was so lucky!!!!! and unlike Kerilli I should get away with no lasting damage BUT IT SCARED ME BIG TIME!
 
When I was younger (and a little less wise
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), I was picking out my mum's mare's feet. She was only young and had a habbit of messing about, wiggling her back leg when you picked it up. She was more than capable of balancing and was just being a s*d. Someone told me that when they do that, you should bang their leg against the one they are standing on, so I thought I would give it a try. Before I knew what was happening, the leg shot back out and whacked me right on the kee joint. OMFG - the pain! I put the cold hose on it and it just went completely numb. Over the next few days, it went black, blue, purple and green (rather pretty really
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) and swelled up inches above the joint to well below it! I still rode with it, but it took ages to go back to normal! Wasn't the horses fault - just my ignorance really!
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The last time I tried to load mine in a headcollar (always been fine up to then) he got a bit overexcited and took off down the track. I didn't let go of the rope and got behind him so he kicked out and got me just below the rib cage. It hurt a lot!
We were doing a hunter trial and I was still so angry when we got there I forgot to be nervous and he didn't dare put a hoof wrong. I had a lovely hoof shaped bruise and I've loaded him in a chiffney ever since!
 
am trying to upload a pic of the bruise on my leg after big lad kicked me when i tried to clip his tummy. he was 17.2 and built like a brick privy, and i went about 8 feet backwards and landed on my bum when he did it. i then went instantly boiling hot (from the shock, maybe?) and nearly passed out from the pain. the b******d really meant it, and i was very very lucky not to get my leg broken or my knee blown apart tbh.
here you go. this is about 10 days after it happened. lovely, huh.
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when I was about 13 my old pony booted me with both barrells in the stomach which would have been fine had I not been in the process of attaching a red ribbon to her backside to alert innocent bystanders of her propensity to kick (yup, Im blonde)
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I've been kicked three times with my neddy. Once in the knee, still have a few little problems with it and i can tell you it really hurt! it made me feel a bit weak and queasy because of the area of impact. Second time on my shin, made it have a little dint but no where near as bad as before and the third was in the thigh, just a bruise with that one. I hope the tred shows that he warming to me with it!!!
 
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am trying to upload a pic of the bruise on my leg after big lad kicked me when i tried to clip his tummy. he was 17.2 and built like a brick privy, and i went about 8 feet backwards and landed on my bum when he did it. i then went instantly boiling hot (from the shock, maybe?) and nearly passed out from the pain. the b******d really meant it, and i was very very lucky not to get my leg broken or my knee blown apart tbh.
here you go. this is about 10 days after it happened. lovely, huh.
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I have some delightful photos like that of both legs after a friends horse took a dislike to me and hospitalised me. I have never experienced pain like it my life, it was absolutely horrific. I counted 7 clear kick marks once the intial swelling went down, with lots of other bruising too. Had kick marks from just below my bra line to my knees. Delightful horse
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My horse accidentally got me in a *very* delicate area last year when being led after umpteen months box-rest, thank god he didn't have hinds on!
 
my TB kicked me three weeks ago and nearly killed me.

spent some time in hospital and now I am very wary of him.

horses are fun aren't they.
 
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jeeez. sounds as if your friend's horse needed a bullet. honestly. poor you. lucky you weren't killed, i think.
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Lovely A+E doctor told me if I'd been caught in the head I'd be dead, and he was amazed that I hadn't broken a rib (fortunately the horse only got me once that high)

The owner said the horse needed a pressure halter (I kid you not).
 
OH MY GOD!!!!! (sorry about the blaspheme!) but that must have really hurt! I have had my TB for over 7 years and now think myself lucky that during one of his 'mad 5 (or is it 10! ) minutes that I have never been caught out before! Hopw you have no permanent reminders....
 
OMG these stories are horrendous! I've had my clippers kicked out of my hand and broken, and when I was clipping my 17.3 IDx he kicked out and missed me - lucky really as he kicked clean through the concrete block wall behind him
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My leg would have been a mess, I think!

Megan2006 - that horse sounds EVIL!!!! Pressure halter? Bullet would be more suitable!
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By the sounds of all the horrendous stories that have come from my post I should not think so badly of my TB as I know he did not mean it and it was pure exuberance (well annoyed with me for being so slow!) with no malice attached .... but I really think he is thick sometimes
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.... and I have come off very lightly!
 
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By the sounds of all the horrendous stories that have come from my post I should not think so badly of my TB as I know he did not mean it and it was pure exuberance (well annoyed with me for being so slow!) with no malice attached .... but I really think he is thick sometimes
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.... and I have come off very lightly!

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Doesn't make it hurt any less though!
 
My old lad (chestnut in siggy) did a tendon badly. I was cold lasering the offending leg 3 times a day for 2 weeks. I was quietly sitting on my crate, minding my own business treating his front leg, when...........
BANG!!!!! out of no where came his back leg. Don't know if it was a fly or what, but by christ, it connected with the top of my leg, knocked me clean off my crate, and sent the laser flying.
He looked at me as if to say "wot u doin down there mum??!!"

How much did it hurt, loads would be an understatement
I had a perfect "size 5" imprinted on my leg for quite some time
 
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By the sounds of all the horrendous stories that have come from my post I should not think so badly of my TB as I know he did not mean it and it was pure exuberance (well annoyed with me for being so slow!) with no malice attached .... but I really think he is thick sometimes
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.... and I have come off very lightly!

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Kicks hurt, regardless of how many you receive.

Don't think badly of him, there is a world of difference between a horse that kicks without thinking to a horse that wants to hurt you. Having said that, any horse I handle gets a smack on the backside should they threaten to lift a leg, as regardless of whether they mean it or not it is not acceptable in my book.
 
... no your are right ParkRanger .... my bruise is coming out really nicely now ....... but the damage some of our 'loved one' have done is quite frightening and brings us all back down to earth .... they do say that 'horses are real levelers' I was so so so so angry with him and cannot repeat what I said to him immediatley after the event ..... and he is such a lovely horse who just really loves people and attention .... and to be fair, as my old boy has been getting all the attention over the last 2 years, I am not surprised by what happened ....... so basically it was all my fault!
 
dont be sorry, I quite enjoyed all the attention whilst I was laying winded on the ground, and I had two rather groovy hoof shaped bruises on my stomach for weeks, which I enjoyed showing off.
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I think we can sometimes get a bit complacent (not in your case though as it wasn't your fault just a fluke) but I always try and remember that horses will be horses and do unpredictable things.....
 
Oh yeah, and my daughter, who would have been about 10 at the time, was helping a girl on the yard, who had just bought a little NF filly. Only just weaned.
Daughter took it for a walk while the girl mucked out. A shrill scream followed by daughter in tears on yard.

She had had the filly on the very end of the leadrope, and it had decided to cow kick, catching my girl right in the privates, lol
She was in pain, and embarassed of the location of kick.
What a lovely, foal sized blue hoofprint she had.
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Lesson learned from that one......Don't lead a baby with a long rope!!!! lol
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any horse aggressive enough to kick a person more than once (i.e. repeated kicks) is in attack mode and needs a bullet. i adore horses, i make huge excuses for them, but that needed a bullet.

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I fully agree with that. If any horse I'm riding so much as raises a leg in company they can expect a hiding they will not forget. Even one kick can break a limb or worse.
 
agreed. they're not allowed to even THINK about kicking.
my mother used to ride at a stables in the States. there was an old boy there, who'd worked as a groom there his whole life, no-one more patient or experienced. he was doing sth to a horse's tail once and it gave him both barrels in the chest and killed him, stopped his heart.
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horses kicking = absolutely not allowed. if my youngsters kick out in the field, even vaguely in my direction, they get a tubtrug feed bucket (light and bendy) thrown at their bums asap. they soon desist...
 
I suppose most of us with old timers can read exactly what they are thinking when something comes out of the blue .... and I can just picture you cold lasering (whatever that is ha ha!
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) and then wallop ... where did that come from!
 
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