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Location: Oologah, Oklahoma | A week ago I looked out into the pasture to see a pony I have had for the past 17 years hobbling around with her back right leg dangling; the cannon bone was severed in half and broken through the skin. Sadly we had to put her down ourselves so she would not suffer any longer than she had to and thank GOD we noticed this within the first 5-10 minutes of it happening. I am still scratching my head trying to figure out how it happened. She was out with 2 mini mares and 1 big paint mare. I looked all around the hay ring and gates and could not find any evidence that she got her leg caught, which leads me to believe she probably got into a scuffle with my big mare and got kicked. Have any of you guys had this sort of thing happen? It was such a freak and shocking deal, I'm still trying to learn to accept it a week later. She was so special to our family. :(
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Location: Texas | I'm so sorry for your loss. I've not had this happen but had a friend who had it happen. She only had one horse in the pasture at the time. Never figured out what did cause it, I'm sorry to say.
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Location: Midwest | My friend had a mare that broke a hip, another had a pony that broke a leg in a similar way. Both had been kicked by a horse.
I'm really sorry. Sometimes they get hit just the right way and things happen. You did the right thing and took care of her. Hugs |
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| Horses will get hurt in a bubble wrapped stall I swear! So sorry for your loss.. Heartbreaking to lose one, let alone one you've had for so long.  |
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| I had this happen to a weanling and not sure what exactly happened. I had two turned out in a pasture together, and it was a nice day out. I remember seeing them out running, bucking and carrying on earlier that day. When I went to feed, he was laying down with the leg snapped in two. I just figured it was a freak accident, but it was hard to deal with! He was a very nice colt that I had bought from Rockinas a couple months earlier. |
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | GypsyQueen - 2014-12-29 6:18 AM
A week ago I looked out into the pasture to see a pony I have had for the past 17 years hobbling around with her back right leg dangling; the cannon bone was severed in half and broken through the skin. Sadly we had to put her down ourselves so she would not suffer any longer than she had to and thank GOD we noticed this within the first 5-10 minutes of it happening. I am still scratching my head trying to figure out how it happened. She was out with 2 mini mares and 1 big paint mare. I looked all around the hay ring and gates and could not find any evidence that she got her leg caught, which leads me to believe she probably got into a scuffle with my big mare and got kicked. Have any of you guys had this sort of thing happen? It was such a freak and shocking deal, I'm still trying to learn to accept it a week later. She was so special to our family. :(
So sorry to hear this!! Horses can just get in the most surprising accidents I think I've ever been around! |
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Location: Oologah, Oklahoma | Thanks, everyone. It has been really hard but I just keep telling myself thank goodness we caught it after happening so quickly and that my husband was home to help...it would have been awful to find her bled out and dead. :( |
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Location: Montana | I am so sorry this happened to you!
We had a yearling do this to a front leg. The horses were all getting their teeth floated and we had him tied up. He had been tied a lot and never had an issue. That particular day though he just kept fidgeting and pacing back and forth. Never pulled back but just wouldn't stand. Then he just jumped forward and smacked his leg on the post he was tied to and it compound fractured. It was the most awful thing to witness and so sad to have to put him down.
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| So sorry to hear about your horse.I had the same thing happen to me a week ago,my granddaughters gelding broke his leg and we assume the other horse kicked him and we had to put him down.  |
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Location: west of East Texas | I had an older horse trip and fall in the pasture and when he tried to get up the leg completely snapped. My dad saw it happen. We think he fractured it in the fall and trying to get back up was too much for the leg. He was 32 years old though and I'm sure his bones were more brittle than most. There weren't any other horses or other objects involved. |
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| I had a horse that somehow managed to jump into a concrete feed bunk. He threw such a fit fighting it that he snapped his leg at the hock. I have no idea how he managed to do what he did. Horses can get themselves into unbelievable situations. Sorry you list your pony. |
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| So sorry for your loss. Had a 5 year old colt fall playing in the pasture after a rain and broke his leg with bone out of skin just above the knee. SUCKS!! Prayers for you and your family |
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Location: WV | Sorry to hear this. |
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 I am Woman hear me Roar
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Location: Choctaw, Oklahoma | So sorry to hear about your loss and what you guys had to do. I knew someone that had a filly that stepped into a gopher hole and broke her leg that way. so sad |
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Location: Montana | I'm so sorry this happened to you. My friend had a horse that got spooked or chased by another horse, and ended up running into a wood pile (stacked neatly) and broke its leg. It is just a sad thing to have happen.  |
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Location: SD | I am very sorry you had to experience this. I had to put down a beloved gelding due to a fractured hock a few years ago. I didn't see it happen, but I'm fairly certain he was kicked. I was heartbroken. |
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| I am so sorry for your loss...you and your family will be in my prayers. I had a pony (my first horse) whom I had a long time. I only had 2 horses at a time, and they were in adjacent pastures. Same thing...went out one day and he had broken his front canon bone in half. Sometimes older horses just get brittle bones and things happen...God always has a plan!! They get to spend the rest of forever galloping around with Seabiscuit now =] |
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Location: USA | I had a similiar situation years ago. Finally found some old post holes(it was a pasture I was boarding at) and determined she stepped in one of those while running. Sorry for your loss. |
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Location: Oologah, Oklahoma | Thanks again everyone, and to those that have lost horses in a similar way, I'm sorry for you too. It happens more often than I realized. :( |
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Location: Texas | So sorry for your loss. This happened to my daughters barrel horse 5 yrs ago. A cold front came in and they were all running and playing. Snapped his cannon bone in half. It was horrible. |
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| So sorry for your loss.
I lost a yearling by A Streak of Fling last year the exact same way. He was in the pasture with another yearling and two adult horses. we had no idea what happened.It was absolutely heartbreaking for sure. |
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Location: Mississippi | Sorry to hear that, prayers for you |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | Sadly this happens all too often to horses on the racetrack, especially those that have been nerved and can't feel the ground the way they should.
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Horse broke leg completely in half