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Location: Wide open spaces, Canada. | Here is a short video of her moving .......
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Well I see that she does have a problem, I would let her live her life out in pasture or find someone that wants a pasture pet/companion horse. I have a gelding in the same shape, his is King of his pasture, will live his days out here. |
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Location: Florida.. | Southtxponygirl - 2014-07-26 4:52 PM Well I see that she does have a problem, I would let her live her life out in pasture or find someone that wants a pasture pet/companion horse. I have a gelding in the same shape, his is King of his pasture, will live his days out here.
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Bibliafarm - 2014-07-26 4:00 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-07-26 4:52 PM Well I see that she does have a problem, I would let her live her life out in pasture or find someone that wants a pasture pet/companion horse. I have a gelding in the same shape, his is King of his pasture, will live his days out here.
She does look very happy and healthy.  My gelding broke his coffin bone as a 2 year old, hes 14 this year. Some days he really sore and most days he's chasing someone around letting the others know hes the boss. |
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Location: Phoenix | We had a crippled yearling gelding....like really crippled. Sometime was messed up in his hips. We gave him away to someone. She owned a rescue facility and we knew he'd have a good forever home. If we didn't do that, dad was ready to send him on the slaughter truck or put him down ourselves. It's sad but practical. |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | I'm in the same place with one of mine. She's been lame for a year, and I've gotten to the point where I'm not going to keep dumping money into expiramenting. I recently decided to turn her out on 80 acres with a small herd, since she is comfortable just wandering around getting fat. I'll pull her out in a year and see if time has healed anything. If not...I don't know....I wouldn't trust her with kids. She has papers but I sure as heck am not breeding her. I can't bear the thought of putting her down. She's only 7. The idea of spending $150/month on her board sucks, but she's my responsibility, so there's really no winning in this situation. |
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Location: Central Montana | Ok guys, I'm in the same boat. I have an 8yr old finished reiner that has navicular (you can see the holes on the xrays) and bone spurs next to the suspensories. I have over $2,000 in vet bills since March diagnosing him and treating him with Tildren.
The Tildren helped but not as much as I was hoping, he is pasture sound and when injected would be riding sound, sound enough to show western pleasure, trail, or just trail ride. I love the horse to death, he has a one in a million personality, therefore I would not ever consider putting him through the roles, drills, practice, to rein him at a competitive level.
Just being shod correctly with no injections he is pefectly pasture sound - also - when shod correctly and on good days riding sound, once again with no injections. I've had two different vets tell me that once you de-nerve the clock starts ticking and you have about 1 1/2 years to expect to have the horse be in good shape before all kinds of other foot issues start happening. With all of the threads on de-nerving on here, no one has ever mentioned anything like that.
I'm out of money to spend on any more treatments. Especially since I know I'm looking at the fact there is no way it is going to get better. I can't afford to keep a horse I can't use because we have to feed hay all year round at over $200/ton.
One of my friends thinks if I should just put him down and not try to find another home for him, because there is no guarantee that he is going to be taken care of. I totally agree with her. I know how hard it would be to home a horse with issues and be guaranteed that someone would keep up with the shoeing and injecting if they wanted to ride him.
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Location: The edge of no where | GoinJettin - 2014-07-27 5:42 PM
Ok guys, I'm in the same boat. I have an 8yr old finished reiner that has navicular (you can see the holes on the xrays) and bone spurs next to the suspensories. I have over $2,000 in vet bills since March diagnosing him and treating him with Tildren.
The Tildren helped but not as much as I was hoping, he is pasture sound and if injected would probably be riding sound, sound enough to show western pleasure, trail, or just trail ride. I love the horse to death, he has a one in a million personality, therefore I would not ever consider putting him through the roles, drills, practice, to rein him at a competitive level.
Just being shod correctly he is pefectly pasture sound when shod correctly and on good days riding sound. He is not going to show again though. I've had two different vets tell me that once you de-nerve the clock starts ticking and you have about 1 1/2 years to expect to have the horse be in good shape before all kinds of other foot issues start happening. With all of the threads on de-nerving on here, no one has ever mentioned anything like that.
I'm out of money to spend on any more treatments. Especially since I know I'm looking at the fact there is no way it is going to get better. I can't afford to keep a horse I can't use because we have to feed hay all year round at over $200/ton.
One of my friends thinks if I should just put him down and not try to find another home for him, because there is no guarantee that he is going to be taken care of. I totally agree with her. I know how hard it would be to home a horse with issues and be guaranteed that someone would keep up with the shoeing and injecting if they wanted to ride him.
I would put him down. You've given him a great life, tried everything possible to get him usable.... I understand not being able to just keep a pasture ornament. We have a few acres, but everything is fed alfalfa twice a day....it's not cheap.
If he was mine, I would be more ok with knowing he didn't suffer and is running around on 4 good legs in heaven (yes, horses do go to heaven). I couldn't deal with worrying about someone else making sure he got the treatment he requires to stay comfortable. |
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| I had a filly I bought as a weanling and had an accident in the pasture right before her second year (slipped or fell never saw it) I spent thousands trying to get her sound....Our only option was stall rest that was so strict she could not even leave her stall for at least 1 year. ..then it would be a big if she would ever be sound and the lameness vet said if she were to be sound it would be a small amount of time. Still makes me sick. She was papered well enough to make a decent broodmare eventually so last I knew she went to Alabama. ..just makes me sick. |
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Location: Wide open spaces, Canada. | It's such a horrible scenario for so many of us . I just wish they could fix them all, but I know that's not realistic. |
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