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| I just noticed today that my 3 year old filly, when I asked her to lead with me, sort of drug her left hind leg a couple of steps. She walked out of it and then when I stopped to shut the gate she did it again. I took her out and lunged her a little bit and nothing. I walked her around in a couple of service and nothing. Could it have been just a fluke deal laziness maybe? Or should I be concerned with something else going on |
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Location: MD | if shes dragging her toes she may need adjusted. that's usually my warning sign for my big guy, though I'm not sure how much manipulating of the skeletal system on a three year old you really want to do. |
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| Could be stifle problems |
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| I'd get her vetted and see for sure. My gelding was dragging both hind feet- the left one a little worse- and it turned out to be his SI and required 5-6 months off. I'd address it before you start doing (or carry on with) any training or anything if it were me. |
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| This is the first I have noticed of it. She has been turned out all winter I po ied her friday and trail rode her Saturday, both times about 45 min. She did jump a bit when the dogs came out from behind a hay bale but nothing drastic! |
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Mine drug his left hind after a barrel race that he was really sore from. Bad ground and I had been having trouble with him getting sore anyways. I figured stifle, but it turned out to be soreness from a previous broken pelvis. |
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| Holy cow! I hope its not a briken pelvis! I can't take any more broken bones in my horses. Just had to put my barrel racing partner of 16 yrs down due to a broken leg :( |
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Location: Texas | Make sure it's not a locking stifle. Just had surgery on my kids pony today for that. He came in a month ago dragging a stiff hind leg. Would back out of it and trot off fine them would lock up again at a walk. Tried the acupuncture / Chiro route first didn't have a lot of luck. Went the surgery route today. Fingers crossed prognosis is very positive. Shouldn't have any issues after this. :) |
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| Thank you all for your info and time! I did talk to a vet today and he suggested that I just try to build her muscle structure up, since she has been just standing around eating hay this winter. He told me just make sure it doesn't become more frequent. Time to get to work and get everyone and myself back in shape!! Been a long long winter  |
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| We were told lots of ground poles to help with stifle and SI issues, we started with 2x4s because thy are flatter. |
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| My gelding had a stifle issue when he was younger. Leg was stuck straight and he could not bend it to walk. Poor guy was stuck out there in the pasture. Vet came and said he would probably outgrow it. BUT he needed to be exercised everyday. No circles. lots of trotting straight lines and hills and also ground poles are good. My horse finally grew out of it. Good luck! |
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Location: Texas | yay equine anatomy I learned about yesterday.. Okay so there's two tendinous muscles that run on the cranial and caudal aspect of the leg between the stifle and the hock, the one on the front is the peronius tertius, and the one on the back is the beginning of the superficial digital flexor muscle. It's called the reciprocal apparatus, which means that when the horse flexes the stifle, the hock must flex too. or if they extend the stifle, the hock extends too. Dogs don't have it. Anyway, if their stifle locks, the hock can't flex when it walks, so they can drag. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I also hope it isn't a pelvis injury, but it is easy to look for. Just have vet do a rectal exam. My horse's happened either as a 3yr old (accident at the trainers) or as a 4yr old in the winter (maybe slipped on ice in pasture). He never was lame that I saw so it must not have been a major break, he just got super sore in his SI after a barrel race. Now we know it was the muscles surrounding his pelvis area from the tweek of his pelvis not healing symmetrical. If I had known he was hurt, I would have done stall rest and he would most likely now be competition sound. As it is, he will get another year off and be ranch sound. |
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