What cuts, scrapes and accidents have/did your young horse have?

[clairec1154]

Just wondering if all young horses are the same, my 2 year old is either accident prone or I am not looking after him very well? At the moment he has a large cut on his nose and one above his eye and a scraped knee!

What accidents, cuts and scrapes have your young horses have/had?

 

[Charlie007]

When my horse was a yearling ( i din't own him then ) he got his foot caught in a wire fence. The owner/breeder got a call to say he was stuck in fence. She legged it to the field to find him happily grazing with his foot stuck!! Unfortunately it was a deep cut so he has been left with a scar and a misshaped side of his hoof!!

 

[xena_wales]

Ozzy my rising 3yo homebred is a bit of a disaster! He was born very windswept, then had septic navel, then OCD in his fetlocks, numerous scrapes and bangs, hole in his head this winter, and a whacking great abscess that was so bad he had to have xrays for it - he's just about recovered from that now. I'm sure there's loads more that I've forgotten too!

Pic of the hole in his head (it was between his eye and nostril):

 

[3DE]

My 5 month old broke his fetlock hooning around the field 6 weeks of box rest, 6 weeks of stable sized paddock turnout and 6 weeks of turnout in my garden and he was as good as new

 

[Faithkat]

Over the years mine have had two accidents that are worth talking about.
I had a 2 year old who was kicked in the field, on the hock. She sustained bone chips off the hock one of which punctured the DDFT sheath which became infected and she had to be PTS - devastating.
The other was my now 3 year old (her birthday's tomorrow) who went through a fence at almost 11 months old. She took all the skin and flesh off the front of her near front leg from knee to fetlock and ripped a three-cornered tear on the fetlock. She spent a week in the equine hospital and then was on box rest for 9 weeks (and this is a horse that had only been in a box when she was born) bandaged from elbow to the ground. She was an absolute star and the leg has healed so that you can barely see the scar (she is grey which helps).

 

[Serenity087]

Where do we start with Milo?

He's still getting cast when he gets upset about things, so he's perpetually missing skin from his hocks, face and knees. He gets eaten by the yard shetland, so his legs are always missing chunks. But he's also managed to get a string of abcesses (including a rectoperinial one, which is unheard of in colts, especially yearlings! Normally they're found in brood mares who've been torn during labour!!!!!).

Basically, as soon as one thing heals, he does another!

 

[Hannah123]

My sisters rising 2 year old has had numerous cuts and scrapes on his face, i think he just smacks his face on the walls all the time! And last summer he managed to get his leg wrapped around an electric fence, rip a fence post out of the ground because it was shocking him and then end up in hospital for 2 days to get it washed out and checked for nothing bad!!! xxx