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I brought the fat one in just a moment ago.....moving very slow,had rinsed his legs off as we get closer to his stable can bearly weight bear.......so took hoof pick to lift up right front,the poor cob nearly goes over(Now going through my head at this stage is what if there's break.....Think he truly would be puffing and incapable of moving......so mutter to myself 'Get a grip woman!) Did not realise that he had been holding up left front and I had asked him to weight bear on a leg with the biggest stone ever rammed in it....discoverd this when I picked them out in his stable into a bucket....will check him when I go back.....Feel real dumb and stupid!
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Can you beat me on dumb things you have done with horses, cos' at this moment wonder where my brain has gone!
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Ha ha!
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Oh dear, similar thing happened with Blue the other week, my friend got him in from the field and he was hopping lame, so she picked out his feet as first point of call and he had some truly huge stones in the mud in his feet - he was fine once they were out!
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I found a stone in my mares foot the other day that was lodged in under her shoe and sticking right out you could see it as she walked!! A hammer and 10 minutes later it was out!
 
How about when I tried to lead Sparks out the lorry without unclipping one of the cross ties 1st................wondered, why she won't move!!!

Or the time I boxed to the heath for a hack and forgot to take a girth..............I could go on!!!
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Well sameish thing happened to me. The pony was looking a bit stiff and strange sop I was just like hmm whats wrong here. He is troted over to me to get hay, and just seemed a bit strange. Then I found a huge stone in his shoe, jammed between one side of the shoe and the other, so covering the entire hoof
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Also standing thinking 'My god he looks like he has grown a hand!!' Then look down four inchs of snow stuck in his hooves
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tried to lead pony out of stable without clipping leadrope onto the headcollar. noticed just in time to grab her before she made a bid for freedom towards the hay barn
 
I drove down to the yard to take my old horse to a show. When I arrived I realised I'd forgotten to go to the lorry park for my horsebox and I had to go all the way back and get it! Luckily I still arrived in time to compete, just.
 
I brought in the horse, picked his feet out, tacked up, went for a hack. At the first trot it was obvious he was lame, I thought right front, my friend thought left front, so I got off checked both fronts, no obvious problems. Walked back to the yard immediately and called the vet. We spent 30 minutes examining him, trotting up, checking his back, etc., horse getting more grouchy all the time, which is not like him...eventually the vet tweaked and took the stone out of his HIND leg... Hmmm - hangs head in shame -
 
hehe! that reminds me of a time i was riding bareback to the field on someone else's horse and he started hopping.......all i could think was 'oh my god I've broken him!!' got off him and led him to the field, where there was a mum of a girl at the yard (not even a horsey mum!) and she said 'has her got something stuck in his foot?'

lifted hoof, and there was a ruddy great stone jammed
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picked it out and he was fine.

what are we like
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I can beat all of these stories of stupidity.
I have always fed my TB mare in her electric-fenced paddock, take her rug off, check her, groom her and re-rug, after which she wanders off to the hay I put out.
Well, one day I fed her, checked her, etc, all fine.
She took one step to the hay, sighed, and then stopped dead.
I thought OMG she's hopping lame and can't walk.
But no. Further investigation revealed that I had attached her to the electric fencing by the rug belly straps.....
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