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| Has anyone had any experience with horses that shin bucked? Also what are some precautions to take with fine boned colts when starting them on the barrels? |
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Location: Where I am happiest | Bone goes through remodeling when conditioning. Studies have shown it takes over 250 days for bone to remodel to take the stress of racing. Researchers state one of the best things you can do is trot on hard ground for short periods to remodel the bone. HOWEVER, I have never heard of a horse shin bucking running barrels. Arena's are groomed with soft ground, plenty of cushion to be conducive to barrel racing. Colts on the track can shin buck. This is mainly due to harder track surfaces and lack of conditioning of the colt. Type in "shin bucking of horses" into google and you will pull up thousands of articles. You can also try and change your search to "Bone Remodeling in horses". |
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Location: NE Texas | Shin bucking is caused by too much strenuous work too quickly without building up to it typically. A horse that has been shin bucked should continue to LIGHTLY exercise (jogging) to stimulate blood flow to the affected bone. The more blood flow to the area, the quicker it will heal. Also it's best to turn the horse out and allow as much movement as possible for the same reason.....move movement, more blood flow. It's important with any horse to be sure our conditioning program is eased in to in order to avoid these types of situations. Build them up slowly so that the bone (and tendons, ligaments, and muscle) has time to remodel and be prepared for the job we are asking them to do.
Secondly, for your fine boned colt, no extra precautions should be taken when starting them on the pattern. Fine bone is not weak bone, in fact, finer smaller bone takes less time and less blood supply to heal as that of a larger, bigger bone. Bone is bone, and as long as your conditioning program is progressive, then you will have no problems.
Good luck!
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Herbie - 2013-12-05 8:47 AM Shin bucking is caused by too much strenuous work too quickly without building up to it typically. A horse that has been shin bucked should continue to LIGHTLY exercise (jogging) to stimulate blood flow to the affected bone. The more blood flow to the area, the quicker it will heal. Also it's best to turn the horse out and allow as much movement as possible for the same reason.....move movement, more blood flow. It's important with any horse to be sure our conditioning program is eased in to in order to avoid these types of situations. Build them up slowly so that the bone (and tendons, ligaments, and muscle) has time to remodel and be prepared for the job we are asking them to do.
Secondly, for your fine boned colt, no extra precautions should be taken when starting them on the pattern. Fine bone is not weak bone, in fact, finer smaller bone takes less time and less blood supply to heal as that of a larger, bigger bone. Bone is bone, and as long as your conditioning program is progressive, then you will have no problems.
Good luck!
I totally agree with Herbie...short sprints will help stress the bones and help. |
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Location: Abbotsford B.C. Canada | My understanding is that the problem with shin bucking is that as the others here mention you need to slowly build up the work and start the remodelling of the bone. The key is that bone density actually drops a couple months into the program as remodelling actually takes the initial bone breaks it down then reorganises it, and it is actually weaker two months into the program than when you started.
The colt at the TB track does not buck in the first month of training it happens later because the bone has been broken down to accomodate the different pressures but not reassembled in the areas where new pressure is being asserted at least to the origunal bone density. Then they buck their shins.
Therefore, I suggest you put in a training program for two months then actually back down significantly say by 25% for two months then come back and slowly build back up again and you should be good to go. This is based on work from The Ohio State University vet school and TB race horses, but I do not see why it would not apply to a barrel racing horse when you think of the stress they can be under.
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| My colt that shin bucked is a quarter horse who I off the track. I know what shin bucking is, what I'm trying to figure out is if anyone has delt with a horse that at one time shin bucked and if so how did that affect their barrel racing career if at all. I must note his shins are no longer sore. |
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Location: Where I am happiest | I had a colt we ran on the track that shin bucked. He because a very successfull barrel and rope horse competing at the rodeo level well into his late teens. Once they heal from it, it is a non issue. |
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