Our friends were away over the weekend and left their horses under the care of a very experienced friend. The horses are all rugged (the weather is appalling atm). On Monday the friend went to fetch her horse out of the paddock, only to find him standing, but very weak.
The horse's rug lining had split along the stitching on the centre, allowing manure to get between the lining and the outer. The result was that the weight of the rug nearly choked him. The horse now has an enormous haemotoma (sp) where his gullet meets his chest, but is otherwise ok.
Thankfully a happy outcome to what might have been a fluke tragedy.
The horse's rug lining had split along the stitching on the centre, allowing manure to get between the lining and the outer. The result was that the weight of the rug nearly choked him. The horse now has an enormous haemotoma (sp) where his gullet meets his chest, but is otherwise ok.
Thankfully a happy outcome to what might have been a fluke tragedy.