silverbreeze
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I thought I would post in here too as quite a lot of people don't venture through
They feel like veins, they don't bother him and he has had them a good few weeks. I thought they were bites at first so didn't pay much attention. When you push them they dissapear for a few seconds and then gradually come back out.
They are just behind his girth on both sides (only one on the left side) so obviously girthing him up has caused this but I don't know whether or not they should be a concern.
They don't get any bigger with the pressure of the girth, there is no heavy pulse but they are squishy like a big vein feels.
I have tried googling it but 'enlarged veins behind the girth' brings up a whole host of somewhat interesting material but nothing to do with horses!
I have read about varicous veins but not really anything about them in horses. I know they are caused by the vein being overworked so maybe this is what they are as when he is girthed they are having to work extra hard to pump the blood back to the heart... but he isn't girthed up all the time and I never girth up really tight.
They feel like veins, they don't bother him and he has had them a good few weeks. I thought they were bites at first so didn't pay much attention. When you push them they dissapear for a few seconds and then gradually come back out.
They are just behind his girth on both sides (only one on the left side) so obviously girthing him up has caused this but I don't know whether or not they should be a concern.
They don't get any bigger with the pressure of the girth, there is no heavy pulse but they are squishy like a big vein feels.
I have tried googling it but 'enlarged veins behind the girth' brings up a whole host of somewhat interesting material but nothing to do with horses!
I have read about varicous veins but not really anything about them in horses. I know they are caused by the vein being overworked so maybe this is what they are as when he is girthed they are having to work extra hard to pump the blood back to the heart... but he isn't girthed up all the time and I never girth up really tight.
