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caitlin95uk

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Tried to clip my horse again today and things took a turn for the worse when she got too violent and ending up crashing through a fence and rearing, catching me on the head, (yes stupid me no hat!)
Have booked vet for sedation next Tuesday, she has had Sedalin before but this didn't work, can someone just reassure me that she can not fight sedation? I'm panicking so much that she will fight it, but surely she couldn't could she? Sorry if its a stupid question never had sedation used on any of my horses before!
 
Yes, horses can fight sedation to some degree but the intravenous drugs the vet will administer should do the trick. My horse used to be awful to clip and like yours, sedalin made no difference. With proper sedation from the vet he was fine, and each time we decreased the amount he had (luckily vet is a friend so didn't pay callouts) until he was only minimally sedated.

It took a while but he is fine to clip now without any sedation :)
 
My youngster had to be IV sedated last time he was seen by the farrier (having tried twice without and done a lot of work lifting his feet but he was still very distressed). He did know what was happening and wasn't thrilled to be giving his feet but there was no real effort behind him and the farrier was able to zip round him and trim without any danger to him or neddy. Vet has to come round about same time next time, for 2nd flu jab so will ask him to give a reduced dose and probably same again time after.
I worried about it quite a lot beforehand (not least because the only other time I've seen him sedated he was so stressy the vet twitched him to get it in) but this time I did groundwork with him beforehand, stuck his nose in a field lick and the vet got the IV in with no fuss.
 
caitlin95uk said:
She has had a blood test when we vetted her so needle wise we know she's safe, it's just I'm so scared she fight it and hurt herself!
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The first two performances of my boy with the farrier were dangerously lively enough to know he's definitely a 'fighter' and the farrier did notice he was still not completely 'giving in' under sedation but he really couldn't get anything behind it so it really was not a problem.
Hope it goes well!
 
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