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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Those of you that have needle phobic horses, what do you do during shot/coggin time? |
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| This may not be the case, probably too easy of an answer, but my gelding is only needle shy if he can see it... lol I stand with my back to his head and block his view when giving vaccines in the neck and he doesn't move.  |
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It's not my fault I'm perfect
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Yeah the eye covering worked for a little while!
She is still super reactive after two tubes of Dormosedan gel. Ugh. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | My needle phobic horse learned not to be after we started sedating him to shoe him. Apparently if he had been human, he would have been a dopehead because he LOVED the happy juice. |
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Location: Oklahoma | we used to practice pinching the area where shots were to be given. We've also twitched them to give shots and pull blood |
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| My gelding is ONLY needle phobic when the Vet comes at him. So the vet prepares the shots and I give them. After that, the vet can approach him to do coggins testing.
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It's not my fault I'm perfect
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | TwistedK - 2016-05-20 10:08 AM we used to practice pinching the area where shots were to be given. We've also twitched them to give shots and pull blood
I can pinch all day long, and so can everyone else. She will react, bite her leadrope, the air, fling her head around, and as soon as the vet or I walk away from the shot area she releases and is perfectly fine. She doesn't want to be mean but she's had some pretty big health things that I'm sure she associates. Blah. |
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Location: Oklahoma | SmokinGirlie - 2016-05-20 10:21 AM
TwistedK - 2016-05-20 10:08 AM we used to practice pinching the area where shots were to be given. We've also twitched them to give shots and pull blood
I can pinch all day long, and so can everyone else. She will react, bite her leadrope, the air, fling her head around, and as soon as the vet or I walk away from the shot area she releases and is perfectly fine. She doesn't want to be mean but she's had some pretty big health things that I'm sure she associates. Blah.
definitely frustrating. Have you tried the twitch? |
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It's not my fault I'm perfect
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | TwistedK - 2016-05-20 10:30 AM SmokinGirlie - 2016-05-20 10:21 AM TwistedK - 2016-05-20 10:08 AM we used to practice pinching the area where shots were to be given. We've also twitched them to give shots and pull blood I can pinch all day long, and so can everyone else. She will react, bite her leadrope, the air, fling her head around, and as soon as the vet or I walk away from the shot area she releases and is perfectly fine. She doesn't want to be mean but she's had some pretty big health things that I'm sure she associates. Blah. definitely frustrating. Have you tried the twitch?
Yep, didn't make an impression.  |
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Location: SW MO | I have a mare that is the exact same. twitch didn't phase her. I went to a different vet who put a tongue chain on her halter like they do at the race track on and she was so much better. He said he has much better luck using it than the twitch. |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | I had a mare that was needle phobic and we would sedate her with an oral like ACE, first let her get sleepy and then actually sedate her with the heavy meds. We also planned the vaccines, teeth and coggins at the same time. Drawback was that it took her over an hour to wake back up. The first year of having her it took over an hour to draw coggins and 3 big linebacker type of guys to wrestle her into a corner to get anything done to her. Don't have her now, thank goodness. |
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Location: Wisconsin | Depending on how severe the phobia is, load them in the trailer.
I have one horse that despises a certain vet, actually was becoming a bit dangerous. Now I load the horse in the trailer, put the window down and vet sticks her. She is confined and doesnt put up a fight. Never have had any issue so far with loading either. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Mzbradford - 2016-05-20 12:17 PM I have a mare that is the exact same. twitch didn't phase her. I went to a different vet who put a tongue chain on her halter like they do at the race track on and she was so much better. He said he has much better luck using it than the twitch.
Do you mean a "lip chain"? |
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Location: NC | My mare i have to lip chain for shots. She reacts before it even sticks her. The min you come near her skin with it shes running backwards. Only thing that woulds for her is lip chain and eye rubbing. |
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Location: Stuck in a cubicle having tropical thoughts | I had a mare like this. We vaccinated her while she was tranq'd for the dentist. It was to dangerous otherwise. and to get her tranq'd was a whole nother beast. We would put a bridle on her with no reins, then put a halter over the bridle and put a lip chain on with the halter. She would fight the lip chain so bad and for some reason if she had the bit in her mouth, she didn't fight the lip chain as bad. Then with the lip chain, we could tranq her. Once she was sleepy, we'd give her vaccines.
When I needed coggins, I'd haul into the vet clinic and they would have me leave her in the trailer with her head tied. Then two vets would get in. One would shoulder twitch her while the other pulled her blood.
We did the tranq gel once, but she also would fight any tube in her mouth so it was a bit of pain to give to her and then we had to wait for it to kick in. It did work, but was still a pain.
I think the reason this mare fought it so bad is that she had super sensitive skin. Every spot that a needle went in, whether for tranq, vaccines or coggins, it would bleed and she'd have a sore bump for days. If she even slgihtly got wet in the rain, she'd start to get rain rot under her mane. I was careful about her not being out in the rain and if she did get wet, I'd brush and move her mane until it dried. the bugs were also terrible for her. She'd have terrible bumps all over her if the moisquitos were even slightly bad. And the other horses never seemed to be bothered so I figured it was all part of her genetics. I actually felt bad for her that the needles seemed to be so painful for her.
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Location: **Cactus Country down in South Texas*** | I have had pretty good success with a fooling method. Where you are going to administrate the shot I pinch a couple times till they are comfortable, then when i stick them they do not notice.  |
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