Posted 2014-04-06 5:53 PM Subject: What to look for after a horse falls with you?
Veteran
Posts: 193 Location: TEXAS
What to look for after a horse falls during a run? There was no limping but besides being body sore what else to look for in the next day or so? He was trotting / loping around the pasture when I turned him out. Should I have vet go over him before I run him again?
Posted 2014-04-06 6:00 PM Subject: RE: What to look for after a horse falls with you?
Extreme Veteran
Posts: 304 Location: Up and over to the right
It can't hurt anything (except your wallet) to have the vet out just to check. I mean if he was three legged lame it would be different and I'd say definitely but they can stroll crack ribs and vertebrae when they fall (had to put a horse down this week with severe damage to his C6 from a spill this past fall that flared up). If you used bute the past couple of days it could mask the pain though.
Posted 2014-04-06 8:24 PM Subject: RE: What to look for after a horse falls with you?
Hog Tie My Mojo
Posts: 4847 Location: Opelousas, LA
Do you have a video of the fall? If he did the splits or a back leg went out behind him, that would concern me more than if all four legs stayed pretty much underneath him.
A chiro that I really trust or a vet with a thermography camera is where I would go if I had any doubts about my horses soundness.
Posted 2014-04-06 8:46 PM Subject: RE: What to look for after a horse falls with you?
Location: Friendswood, Texas
After my horse fell with me, I had the chiropractor check her out. The vet told me to give her a gram of bute twice a day for several days too. Though the bute may mask something, keep in mind it does decrease inflammation. Hope y'all are both ok!
Posted 2014-04-06 8:48 PM Subject: RE: What to look for after a horse falls with you?
Am I really the Weirdo?
Posts: 11181 Location: Kansas
I would at least get a vet and a chiropractor to look at the horse. I think my gray injured his SI joint in a fall last September but he's tough tough tough and just the vet couldn't find the problem until a vet who is also a chiro went over him a few weeks ago. We have now had his SI joints injected and I am legging him back up after a two week break with hopes of running the real him at Lincoln this weekend. I took him to the vet for a lameness exam the week after the fall, but now I wish I'd had him adjusted then too because we might have found the root of the problem a lot sooner rather than thinking his feet were just sore for 6 months. :(
What to look for after a horse falls with you?
