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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | So horses have got to be one of the most brain dead animals on the planet sometimes. My yearling managed to get an inch by half an inch 'splinter' of wood wedged in his cornet band downward into his hoof on his left hind leg. Don't ask me how, he has 2 small bushes in his field, a few fence posts on the corners and part of a run in I can't find any broken sharp edges. I figure he must have somehow run into it playing with the other yearlings but still can't figure out how he got it positioned that way. It went down along the inside of the hoof wall... Besides jumping upside down onto the bush or one of the others stabbing him because he's a pest.... I'm confused... And most of those branches bend and snap.
How do they manage to do such strange things to themselves. Seriously...
 
Ok vent over.
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| My TB Mare Had a Black spot right above Her foot that wasn't there before. It was a Nail head !! I pulled it out . Don't know How She did that with a Chain Link Fence ?? |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | My friends mare was running from her in a small run. She slipped on mud, went under the fence, and broke her stifle.
She did come back sound for riding. She's doing dressage with her. |
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| My old pole horse in high school pulled his groin. My Scrutinizer colt somehow managed to almost cut his lashline on his right eye completely off and I still have no clue how he did it. Horses could find a way to get hurt in a padded room. But, then again, it seems like it's almost always the good ones. The counterfeit horses I've been around you couldn't kill with a shotgun LOL |
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Location: Benton City, WA | bowersk - 2014-02-27 8:59 AM My old pole horse in high school pulled his groin. My Scrutinizer colt somehow managed to almost cut his lashline on his right eye completely off and I still have no clue how he did it. Horses could find a way to get hurt in a padded room. But, then again, it seems like it's almost always the good ones. The counterfeit horses I've been around you couldn't kill with a shotgun LOL
I sooo agree with this- the better the horse, the more trouble they get into...
My Red mare pulled a groin muscle in a slip around a barrel one year, came up 3 legged lame after the run- thought she had broke a leg; then last year same mare hyperextended her foot in the pasture and ended up needing MRI and 2 surgeries....
My good gelding last year pulled a ligament in his HOCK- could only diagnose from MRI and it was the first time my vet (a life long orthopedic specialist) had ever diagnosed that injury.
I am the queen of bizarre horse injuries...
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| I agree, seriously, they will get hurt in a padded room!!! It is ALWAYS the good ones too! The wormy lookin' P.O.S sitting in the same pasture won't ever get hurt but my awesome mare that gets worked, hauled, and used will try and rip her leg off ...
yup. They are just "talented" as my SO refers to the whole thing! |
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Location: Texas | My old guy came up from the pasture one day with a 3 foot long stick of mesquite stuck in his mane.... when I went to get it out I realized it wasn't in his mane at all and it was hanging in his neck by a huge thorn. The pasture he was in had 1 mesquite tree... the pasture he was on the 20 years before had paths through the mesquite trees in places and he never had that happen. I guess he was just very determined to get to the mesquite beans in that one tree (he loved those stupid beans, and always got hog fat off of them).
Now as for the worthless horses not getting hurt... I used to believe it. I had a young gelding that had his teeth knocked out twice, took a chunk out of his hoof some how by the coronet band, had some car part husband said it was a mount? of some sort (I can't remember) that his foot fit perfectly into and we had to pry it off. We had never even seen the part before and still have no clue where it came from. Got himself wedged between a building and the fence (I still don't know how he was able to fit in that tiny space, it was hard for me to get through there) had to have help getting him out of that one, cut his legs all up throwing a fit in the trailer. To top it off he was alergic to penicillin and would fall down drunk if you gave it to him. (Vet didn't believe me, so he administered it him self the second time and so we had to go through that whole episode twice.)
It would have all been worth it if that horse wasn't worthless. He put all of his time and energy into not having to do what you wanted. He put on a good show, but if he didn't want to do something he would Bite, kick, rear, buck like all get out... I pretty much gave him away and I have never been happier to see an animal leave my place. Sent him to a couple of people before I sold him with no luck. One guy told me after having him for about 2 days "he is a good little horse. I haven't had any problems out of him. Maybe it is just you." Well thanks guy but I don't believe it. I was supposed to come out and ride him 2 days later so the guy could watch. He called me that morning and said not to bother, he launched him that morning and he was pretty bruised up and going home... he believed me and asked me to pick up my horse cause he was "no bronc rider" lol. That was that horse's game though, once you started to relax on him he got nasty... then he would be an angel until you actually had a litte bit of trust in him and he would crush that to pieces. For the record, I will never take a "free" horse from my mother in law again... I think she secretly tried to kill me!  |
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| I've got a nice mare right now that I swear is trying to kill herself.
She survived the tornado that hit our place with just a small cut on her leg. A few months later I had her spend the night at a friend's house and she came up with a huge gash on her hind fetlock. It took 3 months to heal. I went to load her in the trailer for a playday and found out she cut her withers right where the saddle sits. Most recently she cut her both her hind legs at the hock and up between her butt cheeks.
This mare is pretty curious so I'm thinking she just gets into crap while she is checking it out. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | I've got one in utero that is flirtting with death. Babies momma had a lac that you could shove your entire arm in up to your shoulder. From the left side of her bag to the pelvic brim. Totally unbelievable, only thing we found was a broken feed tub in her paddock. |
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Location: In Husker Land | This summer after a rodeo we brought the horses home to our place..I keep them at my parents due to us not having room here because of our cows..well cows got out that morning and in turn stirred the horses up..picture them.running around the pen like idiots..my daughters made caught herself on our alleyway to run cattle up and this happened. Months and months of doctoring, but looks really good now and she never took a lame step. She was lucky..she just about gutted herself. We could see her pelvis and a lot of other things I don't want to ever see again. The flap of skin died due to the way the flap went but lots and lots of hydrotherapy by my mom and I and lots of forco and platinum supplements and doctoring went a long ways!
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Location: Midwest | I forgot about my horse. He once stretched out to pee in his stall, slipped, and sprained his hock. He must have also had a small puncture would because it abcessed out as well. Luckilly, the joint was not involved and the tendons/ligaments were not torn. He is sound now but the hock is still a bit bigger than the other, just because it was SO swollen for several days while he fought the infection.
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Location: Idaho | I went to feed and noticed my mare standing funny with her back leg cocked. When she tried to move she was basically 3-legged. Her leg was swollen from hoof to hock. With all the snow, i thought maybe she had slipped and pulled something. The next day it was bigger. Hauled her to the vet preparing for the worst. After checking her out he found that one of the nails in her shoe (which have been on for over a month) had worked its way through the white line and caused an infection. Antibiotics and bute were the cure. PHEW!!! Ive never heard of this happening especially after a month of having the shoes on.... weird but thankful it was an easy fix :)
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| My step-daughters horse just impailed himself on a 4 x 4 wooden post this week. No bleeding and after over a thousand stitches of muscle, tissue and skin, there's no swelling. This is his chest:
ETA: Horses have an innate ability to self-destruct!!!!
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| I got a rescue that's suppose to be a 35,000 barrel horse joker when I got him home he kept jumping in the pasture with my other horses and I wanted to keep them separate but one time he jumped in and they chased him and he jumped in feed bin and fell he ended up on his back so when he got out he hurt his knee the swelling went down but I think it still bothers him.now I know why there was double pannals on his pen and scars from hobbles poor guy. |
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Location: home for the winter...what a dumb idea | ride n slide - 2014-03-01 12:20 PM
My step-daughters horse just impailed himself on a 4 x 4 wooden post this week. No bleeding and after over a thousand stitches of muscle, tissue and skin, there's no swelling. This is his chest:
ETA: Horses have an innate ability to self-destruct!!!!
I had a horse do that same thing.....the vet just cut the skin flap off and we used wonder dust on it and cold hoseing....if you didn't know were to look you would never see a scar there... |
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| ndiehl - 2014-02-26 9:03 PM
So horses have got to be one of the most brain dead animals on the planet sometimes. My yearling managed to get an inch by half an inch 'splinter' of wood wedged in his cornet band downward into his hoof on his left hind leg. Don't ask me how, he has 2 small bushes in his field, a few fence posts on the corners and part of a run in I can't find any broken sharp edges. I figure he must have somehow run into it playing with the other yearlings but still can't figure out how he got it positioned that way. It went down along the inside of the hoof wall... Besides jumping upside down onto the bush or one of the others stabbing him because he's a pest.... I'm confused... And most of those branches bend and snap.
How do they manage to do such strange things to themselves. Seriously...
Ok vent over.
I kid you not, we had a mare do the EXACT same thing except on the hind right hoof. She came up 3 legged lame one day, thought it was an abscess, wrapped the hoof and the next day found an inch and a half by half inch stick in the vet wrap. Damaged her coronary band permanently so that hind hoof looks like a cows (we tried many different treatments, shoes, epoxy, etc.) but she's sound and it doesn't bother her. Crazy horses! |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I had a horse step on a long straight branch laying in the ground, about 3.5 feet long and about 3/4 of an inch in diameter. When he stepped on it with a front foot, it popped up in the air like a rake, and hit the rear leg on the inside of his gaskin, took out about 8 inches of the artery. He bled out in a matter of minutes. We found him in the pasture the next morning. Of course exactly what happened is theory since nobody saw it. But we found the branch and that's the best we could come up with. |
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| Weird and wonderful horse injuries, where do I start
Had a horse at my barrel racing finals that cut his throat latch hours before competition in his box stall,had tutu re that up without sedation.
I have had multiple broken bones from weird incidences
Broken splint bone as horse blew a shoe and it hit the opposite splint and shattered it.
Broken splint bone as donkey had all horses running and horse slipped and she hit her splint with the opposite foot.
Had cougar bite out the forearm of horse
Had horse fall through frozen creek and fracture cannon bone. Same mare also had a tree fall on her head and fracture her skull between her eyes
Had one filly that got into a bees nest had over 100 stings, called the vet treated as per recommendations, next day she colic'd, 2 weeks later she died
These are my strange ones, I have been lucky as all but my one that died,have been able to return to competitive competition
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| went out to check my horses after a hurricane. all seem to be ok but noticed my good mare didn't come up with the rest. she was standing down in the pasture with her head hung low. i braced myself and walked down to where she was. everything seemed ok except i noticed her tongue hanging out. i thought she had been electrocuted somehow. got her up to the barn and called vet. her tongue had turned black and was too swollen to retract back in her mouth which could be life threatening. noticed one of the horses with teeth scrapes down their back so we figured that she must have been chasing him around during the storm and bit him. what resulted was she also bit her tongue and caused a hemotoma. we had to massage it until the blood began to circulate again and her tongue reduced in size. took a couple of hours but with some dex and massaging, all turned out ok. horses will find trouble and are accidents waiting to happen. |
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Location: GA | I watched my bubble wrap mare roll in the pen, stand up/shake off & go to walk off only to come up 3 legged lame. X-rays and ultrasounds later, she done some serious damage to her stifle. This is a situation in progress ... |
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| Just a few weeks ago my 2 year old somehow managed to cut a u-shaped chunk out of her EAR... 26 stitches later she was stitched up, which she didn't appreciate and ended up ripping half of them out- Thank goodness I spent over $300 to have her stitched up! 
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| Boy managed to get stepped on (two hooves) and lost half his neck. My vet was thrilled with the chance to use medical maggots for the first time! The B4 pic was actually after being cleaned quite a bit, and the hole had filled in considerably by day 4 of the maggot treatment (when they are full and fall off).
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