Why is it when you’re not able to get to the yard quickly you get a stressful text from your YO?!

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Shadow is currently on the field rest part of his PSD rehab and has been allowed to be turned out with his field mate. Everything has been going well until I get a message from my yard owner saying that overnight he’s managed to swap fields with one of his neighbours and that there’s loads of hoof prints and skid marks. Apparently no obvious sign of injury though.

My brain is doing somersaults that he’s either got himself a new internal injury or his PSD progress has gone back several steps.

I can’t get to the yard for a few hours and even if I could, there’d be no one there to help trot him up anyway. So I’m left to overthink about it for a while.

(Yes I am a massive overthinker and really let things spiral!)
 
The answer to your question is 'because horses are always trying to find new ways of getting into trouble and causing their poor owner stress and anxiety'.

Seriously though try not to worry. I once had my horse on rehab following surgery to remove bone chips from his front fetlocks. We had built up to 15 minutes hand walking x 2 per day when for reasons known only to himself he decided to bog off whilst I was walking him on the yard and spent the next 35 minutes galloping madly about the yard doing skidding turns and stops on the tarmac. To my surprise and delight he hadn't actually done himself any harm and the next day we were able to continue with our hand walking as normal.
 
Yep, I feel you - the day after Dex was diagnosed with his OCD chip the guidance was turnout until surgery next week is ok, but try and keep him quiet.. That very same morning the in season mares in the next field broke through the fence into his field and there were skid marks everywhere.

Sometimes you have to shut your eyes and just try to not let it kill the mind, it's happened now, what will be will be.
 
Hopefully he's fine.

My old horse was on box rest for an abscess, and yard was almost 30 miles away from where I lived (horse was on full livery). I got a text from YO saying, "Horse isn't happy about box rest and is doing a lot of boxwalking." I was like, I'm 30 miles away and working. What do you want me to do about it?
 
Fingers crossed there’s no harm done.

There’s various posts on local Facebook this morning about two rather nice looking horses careering loose along the lanes towards the main road.

One good Samaritan captured them and put them in a random field, only for the horses to escape again. Been captured a second time by another good Samaritan, and put in another random field. They have now been collected and taken home.

The owner of one of them is a local equine vet who is away on holiday and who saw the Facebook posts and realised that it was her own horse loose on the road 😳.
 
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Shadow is currently on the field rest part of his PSD rehab and has been allowed to be turned out with his field mate. Everything has been going well until I get a message from my yard owner saying that overnight he’s managed to swap fields with one of his neighbours and that there’s loads of hoof prints and skid marks. Apparently no obvious sign of injury though.

My brain is doing somersaults that he’s either got himself a new internal injury or his PSD progress has gone back several steps.

I can’t get to the yard for a few hours and even if I could, there’d be no one there to help trot him up anyway. So I’m left to overthink about it for a while.

(Yes I am a massive overthinker and really let things spiral!)
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Been there many times before, usually it was about Bailey and yet another colic episode, or once to say my horse had hurt his leg and I needed to get to the yard ASAP.

I beat the vet by a good ten mins to find a broken leg. Another time, getting ready for work "vets on his way" only to find a deceased horse in the field.

So my y.o knows to say "everything is okay" prior to any other words when she rings me!

Hoping your horse hasn't undone any of his recovery OP x
 
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This used to be me all of the time. It got to the point where I didn't want to either leave the yard, go into the office (it was an hour away) and my anxiety was horrendous- weirdly this was at the time when my previous horse was also going through PSD rehab alongside KS. When he was rehomed, the relief I felt on my mental health was something indescribable. Not saying you should do that btw- this was just my experience, and PSD wasn't the reason he was rehomed.

I'm still a huge overthinker but I now have my own yard with cameras everywhere and two good grooms.
 
Wig was on box rest for 5 months last year. A week before he was due to be turned out he aggravated the injury (god knows how) and went lame again. I spoke to the vet and turned him out anyway, we were both thoroughly miserable and I couldn't do it to me or him any more.

A few weeks later a new horse arrived. After quarantine, he went into a fenced off part of the field for introductions and because of Wig's injury we took everything extra slowly. After 2 weeks the other side of the fence we put a quiet horse in with the new horse for a few days and then let them both out with the rest of the herd. All super quiet and stress free. We were just congratulating ourselves on it all being extra calm when the mares in the field next door came into season, the new horse barged through the hedge, creating a hole for Wiggy to follow him through and the pair of them were careering around the mares field having a wonderful time. I got a phone call when I was stuck in traffic on my way home from a meeting two hours away saying nobody could catch him (he can be a pain to catch for everyone except me if he thinks he's in trouble for something!). By the time I arrived Wig was in (nobody had rung to tell me) but only because they caught all the other horses, then herded him into his stable. Luckily no extra harm was done.
 
I was in London & wouldn't be back until 5pm when I got a message from my yard saying my PSSM / EMS horse had escaped overnight from her dry lot and was in the rested winter field - ex dairy so full of rye. She'd threatened to kick anyone who went near her and she had a reputation for meaning it.

A whole day of worrying! Easy to catch that evening though because she was stuffed...
 
Thanks everyone for your stories. They’ve helped put my mind at rest a little bit. It’s good to know I’m not alone in both panicking but also having a horse who doesn’t understand that they’ve got to be quiet and sensible! Honestly, why do they do this to us?!

Going up in about an hour to check legs and trot up and fingers crossed he’s just had a nice night in another paddock and that’s it 🤞
 
Oh no, I really feel for you! I am the same.. chronic over thinker!

My Welsh gelding jumped out of the paddock on his first day having some turnout 2 weeks after a operation on both hinds. He was fine, but the YO calling me while I was working to say your horse has jumped out and is cantering up and down the track, wasn't great!

They like to cause us so much stress and worry.. some of my horse friends say 'don't worry' yes easier said than done!

Give us a update once you've seen him :) 🤞
 
I once had a call at work to say that my mare had got out of her field and was in the farmers neighbouring field. I rushed out of work and round to the yard (about 7 or 8 minutes away) only to find both my horses in their paddock and a crowd of gypsy horses in the farmers field :rolleyes:
 
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I once had a text from a YO saying that Baggs had jumped the hedge and gotten into next door's field, he's currently being chased by mares and is sweating quite a bit, but no one can catch him or get near him. That was at about 1.30pm - and I had to work till 5 as had a major deadline so couldn't afford to leave the office as no one else could take my place. Luckily my Mum managed to go over to the yard and catch him, but it was a hell of a long night watching him for signs of colic and tying up.

The next day when I turned him out into the field he was supposed to be in, I was sick with worry the entire time if he'd pull the same stunt or stay put. Luckily he stayed put and we didn't have any more escaping episodes.

It's natural to worry about them so much - it shows how much we care and love them. And after everything you've been through the last few years it's totally understandable to be so fraught with worry xxx

Fingers crossed Shadow is alright and just had a cheeky jaunt in a different field - please do let us know when you can xxx
 
Mine was in the field recovering from a psd injury. We think he got stung went absolutely nuts haring round rearing bucking etc. It seemed to have no impact on his recovery!
 
Mine was in the field recovering from a psd injury. We think he got stung went absolutely nuts haring round rearing bucking etc. It seemed to have no impact on his recovery!
 
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