Reasons NOT to own a dumblood... (warning image containing blood)

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Hello all

I thought I would start a thread to dis-courage and potential dumblood owners.

Reason #1 to NOT own a dumblood; Because you will forever be buying overreach boots
#2 They NEVER stop growing it IS possible to grow a hand a year!
#3 You an never discipher their passports
and reason#4 (do not look if slightly squeamish)

THIS is what you find when you go to catch in from the field!











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VERY LUCKY it has only removed a little bit of skin so I have hibbi scrubbed thoroughly and betadined (now have fingers like a smoker :o) has also had a bute. Stopped bleading after a min so now in stable with a vetwrap and stable bandages on, Please keep your fingers crossed we don't get an infection! :(
 
My dumbblood was the queen of puncture wounds ... she managed to get them in environments of flat lush grass entirely surrounded by safe electric fencing and no other horses!
 
Haha. Isn't that the truth! I have one of these and a stupid TB with cocktail leg sticks to go with it. Lots of vet bills! Especially as 'dumblood' (I love that) likes to kick and bite TB. I should get a native.

Hope he is feeling better tommorrow :)
 
As per usual it isn't (from what I can make out with serious poking and prodding :p) as bad as it looks, the actual cut is the top line on the diagonal (looks like ¬ in the pic) but it doesnt follow the downward line if you get me?

Think the only problem, if any, will be infection but with a lot of scrubbing and copious betadine (his sock is almost yellow now!) we should be ok *fingies crossed* :)
 
oooh messy... clearly the Dumbloods get this tendancy to self harm and have unforeseeable accidents from the TB side of their ancestory :D
 
Chellebean said:
Ouch Greenlivery! Is your's ok now? x
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Yes thank you! Amazingly she is totally fine! You can't even see a scar or a white hair or anything! We gave her antibiotics for the infection, and kept the legs clean and her tail out of it all, and put some barrier cream on it - and thats about it! Healed beautifully, she hates box rest so I made her a mini paddock in the garden - she used to put her head through the window and watch the tv!! It all scabbed over and went crispy once the swelling/saussage legs went down, and she moved to a bigger paddock, only to spot a trailer, think she was going to a show and flat out gallop around the field! All scabs came open and she had to have an extra week in the garden.
We got a really good antibacterial spray from the vets to spray on, and slowly walked her in hand on grass each day to help with the swelling.
 
greenlivery said:
Yes thank you! Amazingly she is totally fine! You can't even see a scar or a white hair or anything! We gave her antibiotics for the infection, and kept the legs clean and her tail out of it all, and put some barrier cream on it - and thats about it! Healed beautifully, she hates box rest so I made her a mini paddock in the garden - she used to put her head through the window and watch the tv!! It all scabbed over and went crispy once the swelling/saussage legs went down, and she moved to a bigger paddock, only to spot a trailer, think she was going to a show and flat out gallop around the field! All scabs came open and she had to have an extra week in the garden.
We got a really good antibacterial spray from the vets to spray on, and slowly walked her in hand on grass each day to help with the swelling.
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Oh wow! Know where to come for first aid tips lol :D
Glad she is all sorted now :)
 
Frube said:
Greenlivery, that looks so sore! how he manage that? x
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She kicked out at a fence with some youngsters the other side, got herself stuck with back legs one side and the rest of her the other, and tried to walk through! We had to cut her out!
She is seriously accident prone!! Over christmas she got seriously ill and nearly died from rectal muscle failure, only the other day she put a foot through a trailer partition, fell down and had to be rescued from the side of a main road, blood everywhere, police having to stop the traffic etc! And a few days ago, she hit her head in the stable somehow and I came out to find blood pouring down her face!!!!
She always recovers perfectly! Must have 9 lives!
 
Oh this thread makes me sad. My dumblood ended his life after breaking his leg in a field. although he had just been stolen, attempted to load, failed, let got trotted down the road and was caught then put in a strange field, galloped round (on we think a damaged leg from the failed loading) and shattered his canon bone. :( maybe he wouldnt of done it is he wasnt half dumblood, but also dont think he would of been stolen if he wasnt. hmmmm, sad now.
 
bay_beasty said:
Oh this thread makes me sad. My dumblood ended his life after breaking his leg in a field. although he had just been stolen, attempted to load, failed, let got trotted down the road and was caught then put in a strange field, galloped round (on we think a damaged leg from the failed loading) and shattered his canon bone. :( maybe he wouldnt of done it is he wasnt half dumblood, but also dont think he would of been stolen if he wasnt. hmmmm, sad now.
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Hugs hunny. Come on, my shoulder and Kleenex always here when you need it.
 
all so ouch ouch. Dumblood and thickbreds... who have either? Good grief GL and Misstyc, must have been so awful be greeted by seeing those. My heart goes out to you BB. Would have ended my horsey days for good if that had happened. Some nasty scumbags around and I only wish we could get license to make a few disappear.

Not entirely his fault but a lump of barbed wire and the usual silliness...

Taken 2 weeks after so imagine how bad this was when we saw it an hour after he did it. Looked like a side of sirlion.

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5mm away from some very very expensive surgery.
 
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These photo's look awful!
Mine is also accident prone, have had some very scary injuries over the years! - Have found he is a much more careful boy with age though :)
-Hope they grow out of it!
 
those are some nasty wounds, glad they all healed well.

I don't have a dumblood but i do have a TB and he is just as bad, always getting up to no good, i always worry what he's going to do next!!
 
I could have sworn this thread was all about Wally, my "dumblood"!! lol love that term

I find a new cuts on his legs most days. Can't turn him out with any protective boots as he will wreck them!

last year I had a calL at work from YM saying my horse was in next doors field. Turns out he was rearing by the dividing rails and came down on top getting impaled! He ripped his chest open which they couldNnt stitch as it was so deep it needed to drain. so it was open flappy skin for weeks Yeeuch :(

I dread driving to the yard most days as wonder what scrapes he has got himself in now :D
 
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