Horrific injuries - easily avoided.

[sidesaddlelady1]

A horse belonging to a work colleague has just survived an horrific facial injury involving 50 stitches, which she sustained in her stable. The owner, who is an experienced horsewoman who has kept horses for nearly 30 years, kept her equipment in a big box in the horse's stable and the horse had caught her face on it (skin, blood and hair on the box indicated what had happened).

The vet said that this was not such a freak accident. He treated three or four injuries A MONTH caused by articles left in stables! And that doesn't include the ones which are treated by the owners.

The moral of this sorry tale is don't keep anything in the stable or loose box while your horse or pony is in it.

[Wally]

If I did the blighters would have it in bits to see how it worked, I can't beleive it is possible to leave something in the stable and find it intact in the morning!

[Kanuma]

ive left a brush on a ledg in a stable, never again, the arab had it on the floor and covered in poo by the morning! then again this is the horse who regularly poos in his water bucket!

[KarinUS]

A co-worker just dug a hole for his horse yesterday and went home early to shoot it because it had never recovered from a barbwire injury it had sustained a few months earlier.
Why people keep trying out if it is possible to keep horses in barbwire or not I will never understand...:rolleyes: :mad:

[Wally]

barbed wire should be made a criminal offence, it NEVER stopped any animal getting out, all it does is injure people and animals, My man ended up with 5 stitches in his eyelid, he was lucky not to lose his eye. I HATE THE STUFF!

[*Sez*]

I don't even hang my rugs in the stables - the little beggers would have them torn to shreds in minutes. We have a partitioned section at the back of the box to keep tack/equipment in which has a fairly solid door and a padlock to keep everyone (including nosey horses after their feeds :rolleyes: ) out.

My HW cob used to be kept in a barbed wire field and he has so many old scars from it. Actually, there's a picture by my desk of my TB at his old home and his field is also surrounded by barbed wire. Fortunately, his old scars seem to all be racing injuries. I hate the stuff - it doesn't do a better job of keeping horses in that electric tape or even a hedge and post and rail fence, but it does far more damage.

[NoviceNic]

I've heard a story of 2 horses being spooked by a lightening storm ran straight into the barbed wire and didnt come out alive....:(

[moosey789]

My cousin has a metal cabinet (like the ones you have in offices) in her stable. She keeps her hats, crops, chaps....... etc in there. Amongst everything in the cabinet she keeps the apples and other tasty treats for her horse. Anyways her girl realised if she leaned on the door hard enough it would open :rolleyes:. When my cousin went in the next day she found one very full horse who had eaten ALL the apples and ALL the treats :eek:, aswell has the hay that was left for her :eek: :eek: .
Horses reli aren't as silly as some of them look lol :D :D :D

[shandy84]

I have left things in the girls stables before but they have been padded on the outside and only when the girls had oversized stables.

I will not happily field a horse in barb wre fields as bramble does lean on fences and at one livery yard managed to cause lots of cuts in her neck, the livery yard owner said she was self harming and would get over it or injure herself properly and learn from it, I didn't want to take the chance

[horsey_woman]

I hate barbed wire too.. but I rent 27 acres from someone and it's all barbed wire. One of my ponies gets out no matter what fencing I use. She isn't phased by electric, she jumps it or gets stuck in it and drags it with her! My expensive post and rail paddocks are wrecked from itchy bottoms! :mad:

[RachelBraz]

I can't count how many expensive rugs I've lost to barbed wire, but luckily my pony was never caught in it (only plain wire which she got wedged behind her shoe and stood there till someone rescued her) and my loan pony, who hates jumping, could luckily jump high enough when she ran at barbed wire fencing once! Actually I don't like some electric tape either, I hate the thin white coloured stuff as the same loan pony once got reams of it stuck round her fetlocks when she ran through it one night in the snow. I swear she mustn't have been able to see it, she was a very intelligent pony but she managed to drag most of the miles of her fencing down into next-door's field. Thank god she did it just before morning as I went up to the field and rescued her!
Kanuma's post made me laugh, my pony had brushes and things on her ledge in her stable and she never touched them, but madam next door had her brushes left on her ledge once, when her owner forgot about them, and by morning she'd buried them all in her disgusting messy bedding! Of course it was my turn to muck out, wasn't it! And yes, she is also a regular poo-in-bucket horse! :D lol you have to love 'em!
RachelB