*Sez*
7th Mar 2006, 10:47 PM
For an accident waiting to happen? :rolleyes: Just kidding! Whilst I would never part with my "accident", I do often despair at how accident-prone he is. Forget the jaw infection - his biggest medical problem is clumsiness! After several leg injuries, mostly minor cuts and scrapes but once he had a nasty infection set in, I bought a pair of equi-chap boots for turn out. He has a bit of tail missing this week (looks either rubbed out or chewed out), and frequently has minor nicks and cuts on his nose and chin, even though we frequently check the field for anything sharp or dangerous.
Tonight, I whipped his MW turn out rug off, and noticed a large-ish lump on his dorsal stripe, just above his tail. Further inspection turned up a bald patch thick with blood and clumps of fur. After a good clean up, the wound turned out to be a teeny tooth mark, but the bald patch now looks massive! I know Salsa is not the innocent party here - he gets coltish in the field and gallops up and down begging everyone to play. The other night he flung himself at Jacob and got a foreleg over Jake's neck... poor Jake did not look amused as they disentangled themselves :rolleyes: . I just never expected that my first aid kit would get so much use! If anyone in our barn needs anti-septic cream, spray, ointment, vetrap, animalintex, cotton wool, wound powder, tea-tree spray, aloe-vera gel... etc... they all know to come to me and my vast collection of medical "bits". I'm at a bit of a loss as to how someone bit into him through his rug, which is a decent weight and bears absolutely no sign that anything happened (I have a theory that the horses have a secret society in which rugs are removed and they have ritual tail chewing, flank biting, nostril pinching and bashing each others forelegs with their hooves to create little wounds, then rugs are returned so that the humans are none the wiser!:D ). And the worst bit is that he's such a clutz, even if he was turned out alone, he'd still come in like he's been in an accident.
Is anyone else's horse this prone to injury?
Tonight, I whipped his MW turn out rug off, and noticed a large-ish lump on his dorsal stripe, just above his tail. Further inspection turned up a bald patch thick with blood and clumps of fur. After a good clean up, the wound turned out to be a teeny tooth mark, but the bald patch now looks massive! I know Salsa is not the innocent party here - he gets coltish in the field and gallops up and down begging everyone to play. The other night he flung himself at Jacob and got a foreleg over Jake's neck... poor Jake did not look amused as they disentangled themselves :rolleyes: . I just never expected that my first aid kit would get so much use! If anyone in our barn needs anti-septic cream, spray, ointment, vetrap, animalintex, cotton wool, wound powder, tea-tree spray, aloe-vera gel... etc... they all know to come to me and my vast collection of medical "bits". I'm at a bit of a loss as to how someone bit into him through his rug, which is a decent weight and bears absolutely no sign that anything happened (I have a theory that the horses have a secret society in which rugs are removed and they have ritual tail chewing, flank biting, nostril pinching and bashing each others forelegs with their hooves to create little wounds, then rugs are returned so that the humans are none the wiser!:D ). And the worst bit is that he's such a clutz, even if he was turned out alone, he'd still come in like he's been in an accident.
Is anyone else's horse this prone to injury?