Road Falls

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Got back from a weeks holiday yesterday and decided this morning what a lovely day it was for a hack with my old boy (28)
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So got on and went approx 100 yards down our road and his back two feet slipped on the tarmac and down we went
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, he fell on me and scrabbled up, but now has two big gashes on his side and a swollen shoulder!!
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I have given him some bute in his afternoon feed and will give him some more tonight (poor boy) and have rubbed arnica gel on his swollen shoulder.
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Just thought i would serve you with a word of warning, hacking out is a bit treachorous...!! I thought i had done everything right for our hack he had new shoes on, the road wasn't wet and we were only walking.
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Just my luck, i don't fall over once on my skiing holiday and then when i get back i ride and end up battered and bruised..
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Has anybody got any suggestions to what else i should do for him, expect he will be a bit sore for a couple of days now, but as he's got old bones etc i just worry about him that bit more.
 
I always find the roads are less slippy when wet...I get my farrier to put road nails in my shoes to prevent him from slipping on the roads, as my horse is quite clumsy anyway. If you are in any doubt about your horse call the vet-they wont charge you for a phone call just for some advice.
 
I'd give him arnica tablets in his feed as well as the gel to help bring the bruising out. Have you got road nails in his shoes? It seems strange he fell over that easily, poor old boy!
 
buster did this once ... was very scary but we came away relativly unscathed! i gave him arnica tablets to help with the bruising.i think it was four times a day but cant remember for sure, i should say dosage on the bottle!
 
I have got two oldies a 21 year old and a 27 Year old both of which I hack out. Both of them have gone down on the road and I find that this happens when they are not hacked out regularly. I now get my farrier to put road nails in their back shoes and rolled toes on their front shoes and I always hack them out with leather and felt knee pads on just in case.

Maybe they have used some of that new road surfacing material on your roads which causes horses to slip.

Hope your horse makes a speedy recovery.

Peter
 
Ooooo it's one of my biggest fears, that the horse will come down the road. Some of them by me are very slippery.

He has road nails in front and road studs behind - all of which certainly help.

Thank goodness you're ok - so scary. Poor chap though, I'm sure he'll be right as rain soon though.
 
It might have been SMA that you rode over. Was it new tarmac? Might also be the new shoes - my boy was like bambi when hehad new shoes on for some reason, especially on concrete. Because you would think that the metal would grip wouldnt you, but nope, its not actually grippy on hard flat surfaces, so you are probabyl right to think of road nails, as at his age you dont want that happening again.

Maybe get some devils claw and an easy moover suppliment and give him that for a few weeks, adn fo course a nice deep comfy bed and lots of cuddles
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Fresh shoes can be worse than worn ones. I was out hunting the other day, trotting down the road and the horse in front of me went down on the road...throwing the rider off into the hedge (and she had a beagler on which flew off and was as much as a chocolate teapot grrrrr). She said he had new shoes on that morning before the hunt. A few people who stopped to help said fresh shoes were lethal. Luckily horse and rider were only bruised: very lucky chaps.

Very icy on Saturday out hacking: I was pleased to have knee boots on incase of a whoopsie.
 
Ouch! Glad you are both ok. Yes, new shoes can be a nightmare - you could always try rasping the underside of them before you hack for the first time, to make the metal a bit rougher for added grip. My farrier fits road nails as standard, such a blessing as my horse quite enjoys skiing!
 
Yes it is not fun crashing down when you least expect it. I have road studs in all mine but last March i was riding along a road have ridden on for years then suddenly horses back end when, his legs crossed behind and smack! Straight down on his side on the road, I flew off on my side heavily and got up to see he was still down. Fortunately he scrambled up and, other than being a bit shocked and with a small cut on his knee he was ok - i was terrified he could have broken something. However, after grabbing his reins (so he wouldn't run to the main road, it was then i realised my shoulder was making unusual crunching noises. The pain set in and yep, had broken my collar bone clean in half.

needless to say I then started going a bit green even though calmly managed to ring my dad to catch my horse as I had broken my collar bone! Actually think my sister was more shocked than me having seen it.

Turns out one of my horses studs had come out. One bloody stud and half a tonne of horse comes down! Needless to say i double check he has them in now - don't fancy doing that again!

Thinking back to that day i was very lucky didn't hit a car as there was a parked car and a car waiting for us to pass. Had the car not been parked and that other car had driven past at that moment - well, could have been alot worse!
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