The "my horse is broken at the moment" club

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Who else is in?
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Doesn't it suck?!
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I am extra worrying as Be was being very restless in her mini paddock tonight. I really don't know how we can keep this up for another 5+ weeks
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Oh, and I need to buy hay for her, even though I have enough grazing for another 3 or 4 horses atm!
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grrrrr!!
 
I haven't been on since you posted the other day and she was in vets then... How is she now?
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Im quite fortunate with mine atm, apart from my sec A'a arthritis getting to him
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Dreading winter.

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I shall join if I am allowed - the horse I was looking after on schooling livery is very itchy at the mo (mild SI) and decided to scratch his leg on wire
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Ended up with nice deep slice through pastern (about 1 inch deep)
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but no swelling and sound
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humph. He was really improving my riding and he was becoming a different horse!!
 
Glad that yours are all well.
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Xrays show that she has bad arthritic changes to her fetlock, which is pretty much bound to be the end of her riding career.
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The reason for her sudden lameness is that the osteoarthritis had antagonised the blood vessels in the joint, and when she stumbled then she ruptured them, and bled into the joint.

So, we are trying to get her sound from that; she spent a week in the vets, came home last friday, and is now spending 6 weeks in a tiny, tiny paddock. Unfortunately, as I say, she is restless tonight, and I am concerned that she will need more extreme measures to restrict her movement (last time we had her on boxrest I ended up with lots of broken bones
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That I am still recovering from)

The tentative plan is to breed from her next year, but many other dreams are out the window....
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I'm in big time.
One month on with severed extensor tendon and a horrible wound which is just about starting to heal.
Poor girl never been in a stable till now but thankfully settled into it well.
Yes we need more hay at the weekend and a field full of grass to look at over the door as well as a very attentive gelding as she being a right floosy to the extent that she can't now even stretch her legs without being led away around the corner
So winter has started very early for us!!!!!
 
It's funny that you should say that, as my older horse who is a bit arthritic is way better in winter when the ground is softer.... are you sure she will be worse with the change of season? She might surprise you.
 
I didnt think of the ground being an issue - doh! Ella's field is VERY well-drained and even in wet weather is pretty dry and the ground is hard. I doubt it will ever get really muddy so hopefully just the fact that its softer will give her a boost.

Horses are so worrying !
 
Me! LOL! I was thinking of starting a" my horse is broken" clique tonight! Great minds eh?

Mine is off for bone scans on Thursday but was she lame tonight? She didnt look lame when she was having a hoolie. But if I cancel the scans you can guarantee she wil be lame again. Similar symptoms as yours. Unless they find something new I dont think the insurance will cover it, so I will be in the "Me and my horse are broke" clique!

ooops sorry that should be " My horse and I are broke!!"
 
Well I guess I'm rather broken too
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Seeing as my head injury is still debilitating me most days
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Maybe we need a club for broken horses AND riders
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i was in from the first day of my school summer hols. 6 weeks so far) My boy is being an absolute angel but my 2 mares are eating the winter paddocks as he can't be left entirely on own and i have loads of grass further down the meadow in the summer fields!! spent all summer juggling horse/paddocks/stables!
At least i have been lucky enough to get my hay in though. i was down to 2 weeks of hay left! that's 3 years in a row for me ruining my summer hols with a horse on box rest!. why do they never do it in the winter when they'd be in/eating hay anyway!!! Bloomin' hosses!
 
Can I join? My horse has been on box rest for 11 weeks, following a ruptured digital flexor tendon and goes to Breadstone on Friday to have bilateral bonesysts in has stifle operated on. I'll be lucky if I ride again before Christmas!

My insurance company hates me.
 
Mine is broken too! Hopefully its easily fixed though....
Rolled in nettles and then fell over in the lorry so everything is out of line from his poll right to his dock and currently waiting on physio and chiro to work out a schedule to fix him.
 
I shall keep my fingers crossed for your girl.

I am sure that Beans would quite happily hoon around the paddock given half the chance too! But goodness knows she isn't supposed to! I have struggled to successfully explain this to her yet mind!!
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Hugs to all with broken neds n broken bits. My last girl was broken to the extreme, so our field/boxrest was limited; and yesterday we realised that Dizz has been rideable/I've been able to ride for four of the eight months that I've had her.

So can I be an honourary member?
 
Both of mine are broken!! Lol - so pretty please can I join.

Luca has a damanged sacriliac joint (sp?!) and now has a nice cut under his eye and on his front leg... grrr not even a shadows of a hopes chance of riding before October according to the vet...

River - well he has a host of things wrong with him - but touching every available piece of wood available he's currently doing light hacking - the best he's ever going to get according to the vet...

And me - well I'm still waiting for an opperation on my knee from falling off Luca and its still the size of a small babies head (4 months on... opps)... so the three of us are all broken and broke!!!

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can I join too?!! <<holds hand very straight up just like at school>> My boy has been diagnosed with navicular "syndrome" but I think short of an MRI which insurance wont pay for we wont really know what the problem is. Nothing is helping whether its box rest, remedial farrier, magnetics, herbal to relieve pain etc. I think even if we sort the feet out, other issues are just waiting to come to the fore. Its not looking great.....
 
I have 1 and a half broken! 18 year old with navicular has had 3 lots of bar shoes now and seems sound yday, still on some bute though but have started to reduce slowly now. Really pleased as was looking at making a hard decision this winter if she got stiffer in cold weather and having to be stabled more, so fingers crossed she continues to do well.

Pony is broken, changing lameness on front legs and stiffness behind think old injury coming back to haunt her
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may have to get vet today as still not right this morning
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quite worried about her, she is 16 now and owned her since a 4 year old.

Hope everyones horses recover well.
 
Can I join too? My four yr old is broken with no obvious explanation and vets / farriers standing scratching their heads looking at her.

Have been ranted at hugely by my farrier this morning mainly cos I think he's feeling victimised
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which isn't actually the case but anyway, he let fly this morning which of course meant horsey was less than co-operative......

Need an exasperated smiley
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Well, it should be ok as no swelling etc.

we bandage it with intrasite gel pads and try to leave it on as much as possible - except bugger trys to take it off
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but when vet saw it he was VERY surprised that he was still sound!!

he is on box rest, but my yard is great as i have my own little private concrete yard in front of my stables so he can roam there in the day.

except that he managed to break the yard brush and pierced himself with it on the other foot
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I'm in too
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Charlie has been off for 8 weeks with a virus which we thought is why he was being so nappy, took him out for a hack yesterday and he was back to being his nappy self even though he is supposedly 'over' his virus. I think more investigation is needed!

As for me I am feeling very bashed up this week, loan horse sent me flying on Monday when I tried to put his bridle on, lucky I had my hat on (usually I don't) because if I didn't I'm almost certain I would have ended up in hospital, my head still aches now!

Out on a hack yesterday stupid me tried to ride under a branch that was to low and have managed to give myself a huge bruise on my shoulder/back making sleeping very uncomfortable.

I'm feeling very sorry for myself at the moment
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I'm in, mine's been broken since May 24th apart from 1 week when we thought he was better but then went downhill again. Lameness keeps swapping front feet as he rests one, overcompensates and damages the other. (We've gone left, right, and back to the left again - it's like the bl***y hokey cokey). X-rays all look clear so no real idea what's wrong without an MRI which would mean a 10 hour round trip to Newmarket and back - something I'm not keen to do for an insecure, nappy, poor traveller who hates leaving the yard alone, when he's already had the only treatments available. Has now had coffin joint injected in one foot and seems a bit better but has six weeks off until we give him another work-up to see if it's worked.
 
my horse is broken due to my YO......

She gets (Iwon't call it lami) but sore footed in one hoof on too much grass. so she is on resticted grazing all year.

Two days ago YO wanted the fields resting (the starvation paddock she was in) and insisted I move her along with the other horses to a different paddock where the sheep had supposidly eaten most of the grass down...so I did as I was told (I did say it must not have much grass in if I allow her to be moved) YO said no its fine.....
next day my horses belly has swollen to twice the size and can barely walk......

How angry was I...? after quite alot of time off I was bringing her back into work full time this week now can't ride her for at least a week or even 2. Told YO i was putting her back in the old paddock and today she has improved...I know ehats best for my horses and I wish my yo would butt out. Trouble is she dosen't believe the grass makes her lame ......
 
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She gets (Iwon't call it lami) but sore footed in one hoof on too much grass. so she is on resticted grazing all year.

How angry was I...? after quite alot of time off I was bringing her back into work full time this week now can't ride her for at least a week or even 2. Told YO i was putting her back in the old paddock and today she has improved...I know ehats best for my horses and I wish my yo would butt out. Trouble is she dosen't believe the grass makes her lame ......

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Well you should call it laminitis as that is exactly what she has got! As for not working her for a week or two she shouldn't be worked for at least a month. I suggest you read the Laminitis Clinic website and update yourself on the extremely painful and debilitating disease your horse is suffering from.

Sorry rant over.....
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To the rest of you - bigs hugs
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and sympathy for all your breaks and aches and pains. I had my mare on box rest all last summer so feel your pain.

Crunchie bars or Walkers Semsations (Thai Chilli) for all of you and hope you are all mended and back in the saddle soon.
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