Pony Started Tripping?

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I have a 14.1hh cob who is 17 years old.

He is working at Medium level and is continuing to improve despite his age.

In the past four weeks though I have begun to notice him stumbling or occasionally loosing his back end.

He is a healthy chap - in 7 years we have only needed a vet for an insect bite.

He is normally very sure footed.

He is now working with much more self carriage so I'm hoping its just him getting used to a slightly different way of going but I am aware it could be something more serious.

I'm planning on monitoring it for a couple more weeks and possibly getting our back specialist to take a look.

Does anyone have any experience or advice?

Many thanks!
 
My horse started with these symptoms and has had surgery for a lesion on SDFT of hind fetlock and they also found that the manica flexoria had torn ( this is more common in cob types).
I got back checked twice over several months as there was no lameness but her pelvis was out! Then suddenly one morning, she was stiff and by evening hind fetlock was very swollen! I am convinced that tendon injury had developed over several months. However only the lesion showed up on scan! The torn manica flexoria was only found during the surgery! My mare is 14 and a cob x!
 
As above get it sorted out asap. My mare was doing that and it turned out to be laminitis.

could also be daisy cutting
toes too long
or something else.

don't leave it better 1 vet bill now and sort the problem than many more bills later and pony put at risk :)
 
Re Manica Flexoria - (hope spelt correctly) - my cob had similar finding, when having op for annular ligamanet injury. They removed the M F totally. He is now 18months down the line and competing at BD novice level. He began tripping a little beforehand too. good luck
 
Thank you very much for your input everyone, I'm pleased to say it has righted itself. Thinking back, his feet had become quite long so I asked the farrier to take a fair bit off - it probably just upset his balance for a while. Anyway - VERY relieved! Thank you!
 
Book the farrier every six weeks and feed 80-100 gms micronised linseed every day.
Of course I don't have many farrier bills, I am barefoot, but as horses get older they are more likely to suffer wear and tear, feed all year round to keep hooves tip top and promote muscle strength.
 
Thank you :)

He is shod every six weeks. I'm thinking of changing it to every four now though as his feet are are naturally a bit of a funny shape (they're like tin cans!) so could do with a bit more tlc than most :)

Anyway he;s back on fine form :)

As demonstrated here!

http://youtu.be/fjjVPn5rIew
 
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