Post by moo on Mar 24, 2009 2:09:48 GMT 1
ok lorraine l i got your pm so here it goes...
we arrived at a new yard mid winter everything was fine untill spring summer approached. we were told that the grass was ex dairy cattle grass and to keep grazing to a minimal so we did, im talking 3 big horses on a postage stamp. the trouble started when one horses was taken away for a few days even a week. we thort it would be ok as there had been 3 horses grazing it, it wasnt big and it looked to have hardly any grass. HOW WRONG WERE WE??? it started with an o so slight lameness i thort he had just pulled his shoulder out so gave him a wk off out in the paddock. he came right so we tacked up and went on a ride down the feild. nope got to trot and he was still slightly lame so left him thinking his shoulder was playing up. A MONTH went by with this intermittant lameness it got better or stayed same i thort he had pulled summet because of the way he likes to throw himself around. then one day i went up and he was just stood in the feild no laminetic stance just stood. i put his headcollar on and OMG he could hardly move it looked like he had blown a tendon. luckly our farrier was due to shoe the other one. he came took one look and told me it was lami my heart sank as huge horses like him are difficult to recover because of their sheare bigness. so an emergency deep deep bed was done bute acp no hay then soaked hay the next day. i think after about a wk he had improved lotts but was still lame on a front hoof. our farrier said that there was pain in the solus of his hoof and dam was he spot on! we had him x-rayed and it showed what the vets thort was a gas pocket they wanted to section his hoof to release it www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrwRYdOiYXs that vid shows sectioning [my horse diddnt founder his pedal bone hasnt moved] as you can see from the vid its awfull i was in bits. we got our farrier up the yard the next day showed him the x-rays and told him what the vet wanted to do he totally objected. he said its not necessary he also pointed out that my horse is pigion toed and if they sectioned his hoof there would be nothing to support his pedal bone [no hoof capsule] and it would sidewinde out the hoof resulting in one dead horse. so we listend to a farrier not the vet. natrually the vets totally objected to this so our farrier got his superior out Mr Alan Baily to see if he was doing the right thing and byjove our farrier was spot on he couldnt of been more right. Mr baily pointed out all the things our farrier had told the vet and took one vet to the side to give her a dam good talking to. Mr baily looked at the x-ray and said to the vet "have you ever thort this to be seperation?" which they replyed "no". so after that all said and done we nursed him back to health with regular check-ups BY OUR FARRIER and x-rays from the vet just to keep check that the seperation was growing down in the correct manner [which our farrier told us it would!].most seperation blew out the solus of his hoof [where the farrier said it would before xrays were taken] and left his hoof spongey and very sore. his hoof with the sepiration had to be dressed every 2 days up untill 2wks ago with iodine cotton wool vet wrap and tape. its took nearly 9 months to get him where he is now and he has been a model paitent. he is now allowed out in the aisle while we muck out and will go back into his stable at his own accord. i joke with my mom that he has become some what aggorphobic! the farrier came to trim him 2wks ago and could not get his knife into his *was* bad foot he had to get a bigger knife and he still struggled then. he was pleased as punch tho and said he is doing really well. mta we had him blood tested and his blood was absolutly fine. his suppliments are biotin,detox and magnesium along with abit of chaff and a handfull of nutts. we are now looking at mid april to get shoes on him THEN I CAN RIDE HIM! which wouldnt of happend if we listend to the vet. when i think about it now i shudder we all knew it wasnt the right move. our names are now poop down at the equine unit because we diddnt do as we was told and go along with them textbook style. every horse is different and please please go with your gut fellings they are there for a reason.
this is him with leg warmers on because they helped loads too un swell legs from standing in in the early months
this is him out in his aisle recently
hope this helps any questions please ask and try to ignore the bad grammer its late ;-)
we arrived at a new yard mid winter everything was fine untill spring summer approached. we were told that the grass was ex dairy cattle grass and to keep grazing to a minimal so we did, im talking 3 big horses on a postage stamp. the trouble started when one horses was taken away for a few days even a week. we thort it would be ok as there had been 3 horses grazing it, it wasnt big and it looked to have hardly any grass. HOW WRONG WERE WE??? it started with an o so slight lameness i thort he had just pulled his shoulder out so gave him a wk off out in the paddock. he came right so we tacked up and went on a ride down the feild. nope got to trot and he was still slightly lame so left him thinking his shoulder was playing up. A MONTH went by with this intermittant lameness it got better or stayed same i thort he had pulled summet because of the way he likes to throw himself around. then one day i went up and he was just stood in the feild no laminetic stance just stood. i put his headcollar on and OMG he could hardly move it looked like he had blown a tendon. luckly our farrier was due to shoe the other one. he came took one look and told me it was lami my heart sank as huge horses like him are difficult to recover because of their sheare bigness. so an emergency deep deep bed was done bute acp no hay then soaked hay the next day. i think after about a wk he had improved lotts but was still lame on a front hoof. our farrier said that there was pain in the solus of his hoof and dam was he spot on! we had him x-rayed and it showed what the vets thort was a gas pocket they wanted to section his hoof to release it www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrwRYdOiYXs that vid shows sectioning [my horse diddnt founder his pedal bone hasnt moved] as you can see from the vid its awfull i was in bits. we got our farrier up the yard the next day showed him the x-rays and told him what the vet wanted to do he totally objected. he said its not necessary he also pointed out that my horse is pigion toed and if they sectioned his hoof there would be nothing to support his pedal bone [no hoof capsule] and it would sidewinde out the hoof resulting in one dead horse. so we listend to a farrier not the vet. natrually the vets totally objected to this so our farrier got his superior out Mr Alan Baily to see if he was doing the right thing and byjove our farrier was spot on he couldnt of been more right. Mr baily pointed out all the things our farrier had told the vet and took one vet to the side to give her a dam good talking to. Mr baily looked at the x-ray and said to the vet "have you ever thort this to be seperation?" which they replyed "no". so after that all said and done we nursed him back to health with regular check-ups BY OUR FARRIER and x-rays from the vet just to keep check that the seperation was growing down in the correct manner [which our farrier told us it would!].most seperation blew out the solus of his hoof [where the farrier said it would before xrays were taken] and left his hoof spongey and very sore. his hoof with the sepiration had to be dressed every 2 days up untill 2wks ago with iodine cotton wool vet wrap and tape. its took nearly 9 months to get him where he is now and he has been a model paitent. he is now allowed out in the aisle while we muck out and will go back into his stable at his own accord. i joke with my mom that he has become some what aggorphobic! the farrier came to trim him 2wks ago and could not get his knife into his *was* bad foot he had to get a bigger knife and he still struggled then. he was pleased as punch tho and said he is doing really well. mta we had him blood tested and his blood was absolutly fine. his suppliments are biotin,detox and magnesium along with abit of chaff and a handfull of nutts. we are now looking at mid april to get shoes on him THEN I CAN RIDE HIM! which wouldnt of happend if we listend to the vet. when i think about it now i shudder we all knew it wasnt the right move. our names are now poop down at the equine unit because we diddnt do as we was told and go along with them textbook style. every horse is different and please please go with your gut fellings they are there for a reason.
this is him with leg warmers on because they helped loads too un swell legs from standing in in the early months
this is him out in his aisle recently
hope this helps any questions please ask and try to ignore the bad grammer its late ;-)