Woop! Got the all clear

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conniegirl

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On Friday Cobbus went back to Horsepital for an assessment and hopefully to be told we were ok to come back into full work and to be turned out.
Cobbus has just completed 6 months of box rest after damaging both hind suspensory tendons where they branch at the fetlock.
Throughout he has been a complete angel and so easy. Even when we started to introduce inhand walking his behavior was such that you would swear he was on full turnout and in full work, when we started ridden work he was hacked at walk on a long rein.

so on friday he got the all clear! So pleased. He is such an awsome pony!
Photo of him turned out in the fold yard because the fields are underwater
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Bernster said:
So difficult managing something like that but sounds like he made it easier by behaving so well. Hope all goes well !
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Thankyou, he has been an absolute angel through out and i've never had one box rest like him. He has made best friends with all the staff at the Horsepital as at one point he was in there for a whole week.

Ellzbellz97 said:
Great news, gorgeous looking boy xx
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Errin Paddywack said:
Lovely looking horse. I am a sucker for that colour.
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Rosemary28 said:
He’s gorgeous! So glad you had good news.
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Thankyou, He knows he is gorgeous and really plays to the camera and uses his looks to get sweeties out of everyone!
 
That's fabby news. Really pleased for you.

Mine's been on box rest with a check ligament injury since 21st December, she has her scan and reassessment next Monday, I'm hoping I can have the same news.

May I ask are you intending to sedate prior to turnout? I'm thinking about Zyklene sachets as they've worked well on a previous occasion.

After all this time if she gets the all clear I think a couple more weeks box rest until the fields are drier would be sensible. Sounds like you are thinking the same :)
 
hopscotch bandit said:
That's fabby news. Really pleased for you.

Mine's been on box rest with a check ligament injury since 21st December, she has her scan and reassessment next Monday, I'm hoping I can have the same news.

May I ask are you intending to sedate prior to turnout? I'm thinking about Zyklene sachets as they've worked well on a previous occasion.

After all this time if she gets the all clear I think a couple more weeks box rest until the fields are drier would be sensible. Sounds like you are thinking the same :)
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Good luck with her scan!

I'm not planning to sedate before turnout. We are going to wait until the ground isnt so wet, boot him up, turn him in a very green and lush passageway (so very small area) and hopefully he will be his normal greedy native pony self and just stick his head down and graze, he will go out for an hour supervised each day the first week and . Vet said not to worry about the odd little hooley but not to let him gallop around.
 
conniegirl said:
Good luck with her scan!

I'm not planning to sedate before turnout. We are going to wait until the ground isnt so wet, boot him up, turn him in a very green and lush passageway (so very small area) and hopefully he will be his normal greedy native pony self and just stick his head down and graze, he will go out for an hour supervised each day the first week and . Vet said not to worry about the odd little hooley but not to let him gallop around.
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Thanks Conniegirl.

Yes I think mine will hopefully think more of filling her belly than using her galloping legs. ;)
 
Great news. It's so much better when they're easy isn't it. When M was on box rest after the first week, we would deposit him at a patch of grass round the back of the stables, muck out and go back to collect him. He had a whole farm yard to wander round but he was always where we left him. The grass was far more appealing to him than a hooley! When I got on him to start his rehab, I just took him out of the stable (after 8 weeks) got on him and wandered down the lane and back.

Your sounds just like M so I wouldn't worry about turning him out. M had a pen in the corner of the field to get him used to going back out again. When he went back out, he spent the first hour waiting by the fence to be let into his pen.
 
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