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After hunting my horse last Wednesday, he was lame on Thursday - wouldnt walk! Assumed he had an abscess or stone bruise but had vet out first thing anyway purely because he'd been hunting and wanted to rule anything else out.

So vet dug around a bit and just scrapped through until it bled slightly, he was fine to walk by the evening although poulticed until Sunday nothing came out. I rode him down the lane in walk on Sunday and he was fine, trotted a few strides and he seemed ok in trot. Soaked his foot in salt water until Tuesday but is now lame in trot - he might of been when i rode him out but he gets excited so might not of shown it for the few strides!

He is ok to trot and canter around the indoor school although i havent ridden him since Sunday, I'm still assuming he has a stone bruise as i 'think' there is slight heat there and there is no heat or swelling anywhere else.

It is a week today since he came up lame, is this long enough for a stone bruise to go?

I need him for the Championships on Wednesday. He's barefoot - has been for a year but would you put front shoes on him so he comes up sound - assuming its a bruise? The bruise is near the top of his frog, shoes wouldnt touch it.
 
If he is barefoot then no I would not just shoe him to try and make him sound because I had a competition, if he is lame then you will just have to miss it.

I would get your farrier/trimmer to have a dig around rather than the vet and continue polticing.
 
No, I wouldnt shoe to try and protect his foot from a stone bruise, especially since you dont know if it is a stone bruise. I wouldnt be putting any pressure on him between now and Wednesday either...

What about boots? Can you try some? Plenty of people compete in them...

Hope he gets better soon :(:o
 
I'd get farrier/trimmers to have a look. I wouldn't be putting shoes on an unsound horse just to hide the fact its unsound for the sake of competing. Although not legally the same, morally imo that's like giving an unsound horse bute to compete it. Depending on what farrier/trimmer says I'd just work on the basis if sound by weds that's great, & if not tough luck.
 
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So vet dug around a bit and just scrapped through until it bled slightly
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Abscesses do not normally bleed. it does not sound as though your vet found one, and in any case it would likely be far too soon for one to have brewed unless it was there beforehand.

I need him for the Championships on Wednesday. He's barefoot - has been for a year but would you put front shoes on him so he comes up sound - assuming its a bruise? The bruise is near the top of his frog, shoes wouldnt touch it.
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No, I wouldn't, I'd give up the competition. I would never put shoes on a barefoot horse to mask a bruise. But that aside, which is my own personal view and won't be shared by all, you do not yet know why your horse is lame. He could have a bone chip in a joint, a hairline fracture of the navicaular or pedal bone, a bruise or an abscess or a blind splint and I wouldn't be hammering a shoe onto that until I knew what it was.

If it is a bruise I would worry about why he got one. My own barefoot hunter has never had a bruise no matter what rough stuff we gallop over, and I mean rough!
 
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get farrier out to look if they cant find anything get vet back out, dont ride or lunge/free school until he is sound!
if your horse is lame you should not ride so you cant compete, would you really put shoes on to mask a lamness so that you can go competing?
 
Well that was my thought, my farrier is out tomorrow but I called him today and asked his advice and to ask him to confirm it is a stone bruise. He said toput front shoes on....which i said no thanks too. I just wondered if that was right. He hunts with me and commented that he does well without shoes.

He has quite hard feet but we jumped a ditch which had been dug out for drainage, he landed on the bricks and rubble - which is where I think he got the bruise from.

He does react to hoof testers so I do believe its in his hoof which is why the vet scrapped some off.

Will have to see what farrier says tomorrow and hopefuly he'll be ok for the weekend x
 
Is there really any call for that glesni? Personally I don't see any relevance in pointing that out, I wasn't aware posters had to have a certain level of experience before being entitled to an opinion. I know some people who've had horses donkeys years I wouldn't let within 10' of any horse of mine, & people with only short involvement I would happily trust. I also know people with less experience in general than me, who on some subjects would be far more qualified to give advice than I am.
 
No I wouldn't put shoes on him. I know it's too late now, but would never hunt a horse so soon before an important competition. Or any horse that had serious competive potential, but that's just me.
 
glesni said:
I really would take notice of what BB says as she has owned 1 horse for 8 years now , so is very very experienced.
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Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glesni, I agree with BB and thought she put it nicely. I have had between 1 and 5 horses at any one time for over 30 years, am I allowed to comment under your rules :D?
 
Eeeeek! My very few years of experience have clearly served me well then if the very experienced posters would have given the same advice. Kind of makes Glesni's point a bit moot here.

Glesni, this place is a forgiving forum. Thing is you can get all het up about something and have a barney on here one day and then it all blows over and everything goes back to normal. You are getting silly now. Why not just leave it and join in as normal?
 
Could another user perhaps bash Glesni over the head with an olive branch? The one I was gently wafting in her direction appears to have gone unnoticed.

I'm out.
 
I have reported her and asked for the post to be deleted since she is pursuing a personal vendetta and it is nothing to do with the thread. She won't see this unfortunately, she has me on user ignore otherwise I would have PMd her and asked her to calm it down.

Can we get back to the thread now, d'ya think :D ?
 
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I CAN see it and I dont care. Its not a personal vendetta at all. I tried to be friendly towards this person!!! and she shot me down with a nasty reply and has sniped at some of my posts ever since. You are not on UI, why would you be ? But I have refused PMs because of this situation. You can report me I have done nothing wrong except try to protect and defend in order to be able to talk to people wh have similar interests... but as it is a very cliquey forum I find i am unable to do. goodbye
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Take the olive branch Glesni. It is the grown up thing to do. Let.it.go.

If my comments about your age and your attitude have upset you this much you really must lead a very sheltered life.

Plenty of opportunity for you to let it go if you read this thread again.
 
Getting back to the point, Lcharles, in the circumstances you describe, jumping onto hardcore, there could easily be a bruise that will take more than a week to sort itself out. If you have a stream handy, tying him up in it with a haynet can work an absolute treat :)
 
Haven't a clue what happened between you & op glesni, but its not relevant to this thread. Nothing to do with being cliquey or anything else, if bb had made a similar remark about you I would have said the same. People disagree & fall out on threads all the time, but that doesn't mean they can't agree on other threads or they have to remain at loggerheads for ever more.
 
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Haven't a clue what happened between you & op glesni, but its not relevant to this thread. Nothing to do with being cliquey or anything else, if bb had made a similar remark about you I would have said the same. People disagree & fall out on threads all the time, but that doesn't mean they can't agree on other threads or they have to remain at loggerheads for ever more.
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Agree with this. This is a great forum with fab people. Not least because many are big enough and wise enough to be able to have a good old ding dong with others and not bear grudges. Which is so refreshing because you can have an honest and objective, sometimes heated discussion with other knowledgable people which cannot happen if it is cliquey.
 
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