charlotte0916
Well-Known Member
Hi All,
I’m currently in a bit of a conundrum - I need to decide whether problems I’m experiencing can be helped by moving yards or whether they’re just bad luck to do with this horse.
I brought my new mare in April and since then she should have been renamed calamity Jane.
So far:
- bitten on the nose by YO dog on the first day
- kicked on the right shoulder by YO horse through fence in first week
- been very slow to settle in stable (~ 2 months before she stopped flying around on high alert and stress pooping constantly. Stable was last on the yards long row of stables. Improved since moving into middle of the yard somewhat and improved further since moving to the opposite end of the yard where there’s only 2 horses that go past her stable.
-Got kicked by horse owned by employee of YO. No one noticed at yard. I found her in the stable with wound >4 hours old almost ruptured a blood vessel so heaps of bleeding, needed stapling up and another kick mark to the shoulder. YO thinks she did it to herself in the stable.
-Turned up to find breakfast and dinner untouched in her stable (On part livery) her huddled in a corner after having reacted to her omeprazole shot the previous day. Was acting doped with the pain, vet was concerned she’d had a neurological reaction initially. Groom said she was quiet to bring in and had seen the frisbee sized swelling on her neck that morning and forgot to mention to anyone.
-Got kicked again (I stupidly believed insistent YO that it must have been the other mare through the fence rather than field mate). Currently on box rest with stitches, been x-rayed and awaiting scans to check fragments that showed up. It was a hell of a kick.
In terms of solving these problems the horses are moved around the fields daily otherwise I would try putting up a perimeter of electric inside the fencing.
Basically is it a case of bad luck we’re cursed with or do you think it’s more of a yard issue that can be resolved when we move? (Actively looking to post box rest)
I’m currently in a bit of a conundrum - I need to decide whether problems I’m experiencing can be helped by moving yards or whether they’re just bad luck to do with this horse.
I brought my new mare in April and since then she should have been renamed calamity Jane.
So far:
- bitten on the nose by YO dog on the first day
- kicked on the right shoulder by YO horse through fence in first week
- been very slow to settle in stable (~ 2 months before she stopped flying around on high alert and stress pooping constantly. Stable was last on the yards long row of stables. Improved since moving into middle of the yard somewhat and improved further since moving to the opposite end of the yard where there’s only 2 horses that go past her stable.
-Got kicked by horse owned by employee of YO. No one noticed at yard. I found her in the stable with wound >4 hours old almost ruptured a blood vessel so heaps of bleeding, needed stapling up and another kick mark to the shoulder. YO thinks she did it to herself in the stable.
-Turned up to find breakfast and dinner untouched in her stable (On part livery) her huddled in a corner after having reacted to her omeprazole shot the previous day. Was acting doped with the pain, vet was concerned she’d had a neurological reaction initially. Groom said she was quiet to bring in and had seen the frisbee sized swelling on her neck that morning and forgot to mention to anyone.
-Got kicked again (I stupidly believed insistent YO that it must have been the other mare through the fence rather than field mate). Currently on box rest with stitches, been x-rayed and awaiting scans to check fragments that showed up. It was a hell of a kick.
In terms of solving these problems the horses are moved around the fields daily otherwise I would try putting up a perimeter of electric inside the fencing.
Basically is it a case of bad luck we’re cursed with or do you think it’s more of a yard issue that can be resolved when we move? (Actively looking to post box rest)
