War wounds...moan about your blemished horses here!

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I've had Ellie nearly ten years, and during the first eight years of that time, she barely had a scratch on her. Never a day's lameness, with the only time she ever really needed the vet being when she suffered a spate of nose bleeds in the stable. Apart from that, she was clean limbed, unblemished and...well, perfect.

In the last two years, I think she's been making up for lost time. She now sports:

- two front splints (fading now, obtained whilst hooning around in the field last March)
- a raised scar on her near fore cannon bone (put her leg through a fence whilst floozing with her neighbours)
- slightly thickened tendon on near hind (had the ***** kicked out of her by a field mate - nearly broke her hock)
- two capped hocks (hit by a concrete lorry on the road)
- large white patch under her saddle (initially caused by my sheepskin riser rubbing her, exacerbated by a fly attack this week)

So now my poor girl looks like she's been in the wars! Thank goodness she isnt a show horse, that's all I can say :D I'm pretty gutted that I was partly the cause of her white patch, but I guess it means I wont have to have her freezemarked now...!

At least most of her 'war wounds' arent immediately visible :D:D:D

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Anyone else want a moan about various accumulated bumps and blemishes? ;)
 
I still think she's lovely.

Solo is a wiley little fella and has no blemishes or scars apart from one on his front leg where he took off with a cart behind him and tried to jump a fence into a field.

Bella has a few more, she has a scar on her left rear fetlock and some circular scars on her right rear leg from accidents.

My friend's mare has loads of scars on her legs from self inflicted injuries, she is one of those horses who you could wrap in cotton wool and make her live in a box of satin pillows and she would still injure herself!
 
when I brought my horse we had her full vet history...she had had nothing wrong with her ever...we brought her at 11.....just over one year on she has got
scars on her knees where she fell jumping with me in the school;
hock spavin (probably always there, only just diagnosed);
sidebone (again, probably always there, only found due to the next part);
and is currently on box rest having badly fractured her pedal bone in the field.

atleast her scars on her knees are not that visible and the rest aren't obvious to the naked I eye I suppose
 
I've had Dela 3 years. And on satuday she got her first injury (touch wood hopefully the last)

She comes down the ramp calmly, by its like she forgets how to move her legs, and she cut the back of her hind fetlock, silly horse. She's not lame or anything, she's been working fine. The noise she makes coming down the ramp is awful, she sounds like she falls, dragging each hoof separately. Our ramp isnt even steep :confused:
 
Ayla`s poor buckin body is covered lol
Last sept she tore her Hock to shreds in the field (never found the culprit) so she has two gashes on the side and one raised on the hock, it didnt bother her, she galloped across the field to show me what she`d done...cue a lot of crying from me!
She has a raised scar on near fore just above knee where a randy gelding tried do naughty things and caught her knee when she said No.
She has another on the other fore on her cannon, field play,
She has one on her hind leg again from the field.
She has a scar on her back from trying to get to itchies under a tree
and numerous little scars from god knows where....
Many more to come i feel
 
Jos has a white patch on his hock, after skinning it kicking down the stable wall last winter. He has also got some new wounds in the last week (typical, when we are off to Ultimate Showcase of Champions next week!) - teeth marks after fighting with a pony, and loads of manky fly bites on his chest. He came to me with splints in his front legs, due to a long career driving in Holland, but they are not that noticeable!

*touches wood that no further injuries occur*
 
Siobhan said:
Ayla`s poor buckin body is covered lol
Last sept she tore her Hock to shreds in the field (never found the culprit) so she has two gashes on the side and one raised on the hock, it didnt bother her, she galloped across the field to show me what she`d done...cue a lot of crying from me!
She has a raised scar on near fore just above knee where a randy gelding tried do naughty things and caught her knee when she said No.
She has another on the other fore on her cannon, field play,
She has one on her hind leg again from the field.
She has a scar on her back from trying to get to itchies under a tree
and numerous little scars from god knows where....
Many more to come i feel
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Noo! Not Ayla! (sorry I know you from HW xD)
She's still stunning I gather? ;)
 
My accident prone 4 yr old warmblood has managed to injure himself quite a bit since I have had him, currently finishing off 6 weeks rest due to bruising his SFT he has managed to cut practically every inch of himself while on box rest!! And he annoys the horse next door so much that he is also covered in bites!
 
I have never worried about my girly too much as she was never show quality, so always "ignore" the damage she does to her legs, but this summer, she has 5 bites from the other horse, and two scars on her hock from a previous kicking and now an area that is still trying to heal on the same hock from the most recent kicking
 
As you say at least they aren't obviously visible! Sounds like she really has been through the wars though, you're lucky she survived a few of those events especially the concrete lorry hitting her?!

My girl has many many war wounds, if she was ever nicked she would be easily identified by them all.

She has (starting at the nose)

- a hige scar on her top lip where she fell flat her her face and put her teeth through her lip.
- a moon shaped scar next to her eye where she was rubbing on a nail (she can literally find anything sharp to rub on!)
- a bald bit on her face where she panic'd and headbutted a door.
- scars all over her chest where she ran into a fence at full speed then got cast/
- huge scars on both knees from fall on the road
- rather large scars on both fetlocks from falling on the road.
- - a 3 inch curved scar on her off fore leg up near the elbow, assume it was a kick or maybe a fence
- scar on her hock from a kick
- scar on her near hind from a really nasty kick (I thought she had broke her leg as she lliterally wouldn't take any weight on it!)
- scars all the way down the back of her hind cannon bones from...you guessed it...calling on the road.

Before anyone tell me I'm a terrible owner for now using knees boots a the road falls were all before I owned her. Not that I use knee boots now but I don't ride on the road with her and she's fallen in the field (with me on her) on more than one occassion and not hurt herself.

One more thing...yes she is a pure bred Arab chestnut mare, explains alot?!
 
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Mine is very accident prone, however also very lucky that none of it scars her. The worst she has ever done was smash up her nose and cut open her nostril, had to be on a sunday as well. So vet came out and stiched it up, she then itched all the stiches out so vet re-did it, she lived out then came in when time for stiches to come out. A week after that on a sunday again she somehow opened it all up, this time the vet couldnt stich it and had to cut a bit away and restitch it.

Her nose looks great now and not many people can ever tell as what the vet said was plastic surgury to it
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Dylan has ...

* Two front splints, which he's had since before I got him.
* Raised, 6-inch scar down the upper inside of his left hind leg.
* Slight thickening at the bottom of his right fore cannon (old check ligament injury)
* Small scar at the bottom of his right hind cannon.
* Small scar at the back of his right knee.
 
Personally, I don't take a blind bit of notice about horses with blemishes, unless it affects their movement, and most of them don't. There are very few completely unblemished horses out there, and I think I would be wary that they might have been wrapped in cotton wool if they were over 10 with no apparent scars whatsoever.
Rebel has both front legs damaged with superficial flexor tendon injuries (both done racing) and they are both severely bowed. He has obviously had a broken knee at some point, fractured another leg a couple of years ago, has a scar on one back leg from a field injury, a lump under his throat where he must have had a wind operation when racing, etc, etc, etc. He is totally sound, hacks and does dressage, so do I care? No, not one bit!
 
Oh lets think!

A huge scar on his off side hip which is the size of a saucer bald as a coot which is a joy at this time of year and costs a small fortune in Factor 50!
A scar over his off side eye ditto above re sunscreen!
large scar on his near hind

All caused by himself rolling in his stable and getting said near hind caught in the dividing bars and hanging upside down on his off side all night

little darling I just thank god he is an Appy and it is somewhat disguised.
 
My old TB

- hip bone sticking out from a steeplechasing fall where he fractured part of his hip
- a scar on his neck where he got a barb off barbed wire impaled
- bar fired on all 4 legs
- countless leg scars from jumping out of the field
- white scar on his withers (no idea, before I owned him)

oh and 2 (one on each side) indented prophets thumbprints
 
I was going to take my tb mare lilly to a show, to do in hand showing, 3 days before i was going, my other mare took a huge chunk of fur off her back, there was no way of hiding it. Lillys not fully backed yet so i couldn't do any ridden showing.:( i was looking forward to it as well.
 
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