throwing a splint?!!

[Lucy_Nottingham]

Hey guys,

I have heard a number of people tlaking about their horses throwing a splint........ what does this mean exactly please?

 

[saddlesore]

I've never quite understood why they use that phrase either! It just means that the horse has developed a split - a bony formation on the splint bone, often as a result of trauma. Many horses get them at some stage

 

[Lucy_Nottingham]

ahhh alright then, thank you

 

[tashpritty]

yes, a splint is where a part of the bone will split off

very common in driving horse and horses which do a lot of hard road work.

sore for a few days, nomally cold hosed and bandaged

after that the horse can be worked as normall quite happily