Standing 'parked out'...

LittleBlackMule

LittleBlackMule

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...After a kick to the hindquarters - any one like to scare me with their horror stories or theories while I wait for the vet?

He has been kicked, by an un-shod horse, right on the point of his bottom where the ischium is. There is a terrific bruise the size of the offender's hoof and a small graze.
He is completely weight bearing on that leg, but refusing to walk at all, just shuffling, and frequently positions himself in the parked out stance. He has wee'd and poo'd normally, so I don't think it is because he is having trouble with that, he is just finding that position more comfortable with whatever injury he now has.
 
Thanks. I'm telling myself that as he is weight bearing, there can't be too much wrong and he's just being a drama queen (he's an Arab).
Of course, I'm also telling myself, this is it, he's got a broken pelvis, he's going to be pts etc.....
 
I have heard horror stories (in fact I was told those horror stories mostly of fractured pelvises while waiting for the vet for similar symptoms, in my case after the horse fell). In our case, horse had seriously bruised a muscle and was taking the drama queen option. It actually took a long time to fully heal due to the location, so we ended up with 4 weeks paddock rest on flat ground, then 2 weeks walking up and down hills and then building up normally from there. To be honest, I felt we were over cautious as horse seemed stiff but sound after a few weeks. But as an older mare, we decided to do everything by the book and recovered perfectly, back to affiliated dressage within 12 weeks.

Fingers Crossed for the drama queen variant!
 
It could just be incredibly painful with the bruising spreading and he just daren't move. Obviously the longer he stays still the stiffer he gets, but perhaps some pain relief would ease him up and persuade him to move about more.
 
If the silly git turns paraplegic every time one of the mares tells him to bog off, he's going to be leaving as quickly as he arrived. I can't take that much stress!

Thanks all.
 
My mare got booted fair and square on the point of the buttock by a 16.3hh gelding (she was just over 15.1hh) plus shoe. He was a showjumper too, so had plenty of power to kick with. She was never lame but certainly stood in some odd positions for a day or two. I suppose I was grateful it wasn't lower down, it would have smashed the thigh bone.
 
What a relief.

My sister's boy is the king of drama queens, he came in one day on 3 legs, wouldn't put the 4th one on the floor at all, it had taken hours to get him down from the field because he wouldn't move and a trailer couldn't get up the hill - we honestly thought he must have broken it the way he was carrying on. Back in ridden work 6 weeks later, the vet never found anything wrong with him!
 
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