Has anyone had their horse "cast" themselves?

[Jen_e_Jen]

2 summers ago I was staying w/my YO as I was showing for her that weekend. She came in screaming, "Wake up! Jack is cast in his stall!" Needless to say I scrambled out of bed and ran to the barn. Sure enough, there he was on his back w/all four legs in the air stuck up against the wall! He didn't seem bothered by it at all, just laid there while Judy and I tried not to panic.
Luckily we were able to get a rope around his hind end and pulled him away from the wall enough to get up(He was a yearling then, couldn't do it so easily now,lol). He was pretty stiff and I walked him and then let him out to work out the kinks, and he was fine.

Anyone had similar experiences?Anyone had injuries as a result? Of course they can be hurt thrashing about, but is it true it affects their breathing and can actually lead to death if they stay that way very long?

 

[gordysgirl]

My lad has been cast once in the 4 years I have had him. I wasn't there but he colicked afterwards. He only came away with a few scrapes fortunatley.
He now has an enormous straw bed with enormous banks - he can't get anywhere near the wall!!
Another horse on our yard became cast against his partition which happened to be an inadequatley covered gate. He got 2 legs wedged between the bars. Fortunatley too, he was very laid back & allowed our YO to unhinge the gate & release him! I am not sure what would have happened if we were unable to do this!
Another horse at a yard a friend worked at was found cast one morning with horrific injuries. She had clearly been there most of the night & panicked. She had thrashed around so much she had completley skinned one side of her face, and suffered a nasty leg injury. I do believe she made a full recovery, however it turned out that the owner knew the horse regularly cast itself. She used to put a anti cast roller on it but as it hadn't gotten cast lately she decided to leave it off.... Foolish or what.

 

[Jen_e_Jen]

OMG that's horrible! I'm glad the poor thing made it thru all that.

Jackson once had his 2 back legs through the fence and I was the only one there. I was FREAKING out and struggled for about 15 min to get him out. There was no one around to help! Just as I was about to break down in tears Jack looked at me, and pulled both feet out of the fence and stood up, shook himself and looked at me like, "Jeeze ma I was just having a nap!"

 

[mu0ljk]

My old horse Sidney got cast in his stable and then in the sand school when he had colic. Me and YO somehow managed to get him up in his stable with lead ropes around his legs and a broom. He was 16.2hh IDx and I am 5ft4" and YO is even shorter! Not sure how we managed!

Then in the morning he got cast in the sand school and we managed to use bales of hay/straw to get him up.

 

[Kis Vihar]

My divvy lad got cast in the field....!!

There was a small 'hollow' in the field, only shallow, there was always quite nice grass in it as the water would sit in it a bit longer....Anyway, luckily I was at the yard - my Welsh D Fella decided to roll in the hollow, and got stuck! He thrashed around so much, he was stuck on his back with his legs in the air!! It was only about a foot deep...but enough for him not to be able to get his fat lardy body onto his side and get up!!

I managed to rope his legs, and pull him over so he was laying with his legs on the gentler sloping side, and then put the rope around the base of his neck, and pulled and 'wiggled' and 'shuffled' him...so he could get up! Luckily, he helped me a lot!! He's rather heavy!

 

[spannie]

casting

In the last 6 months 2 large horses at our yard have cast themselves,it wasnt pleasent to see,as 1 was thrashing about,but both managed to get up from it after pushing at the wall,luckily without bad injury to themselves,now both horses wear anti cast rollers,a horse at our yard years ago died due to casting herself and broke her back,so it is highly serious,im told that padding the walls of the stable with straw does help with this problem slightly!! i know with my big boy im not taking chances.

 

[Wally]

My old Haflinger was a complete pillock, he used to get cast in a flat field!

Luckily he didn't panic and you could get in among his legs and push him back.

Horses find lying down more effort and the bigger the horse the harder it can be for them. So if they get stuck down for any length of time it does them no good at all.

 

[Stormin]

My friend's eventer got cast in his stable, head stuck in a corner and legs folded against the wall.
Another livery owner who was supposed to be 'watching' over the yard (friend was out competing with other horses) strutted in the stable saying 'easy to turn horse' over etc ...

Me, knowing the untrustable personality of the horse, decided to take a more distant approach.
I put horse's head in a better position and with 2 leadropes around top of legs, we (livery and I) pulled the horse over to roll.
As soon as he was on his back, he was able to flip over onto his other side and get up.
I cleared right out of the way as soon as the horse started to come down on the other side - the other livery just stayed in the middle of the stable and received a full hind-leg pelt direct in his "most sensitive manly region".

Horse got up straight away with no ill effects.
Livery owner, however, went down for 10 minutes, rolled up in a ball ...