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| We've had issues with my gelding being lame, saddle issues, ulcers, etc since we got him last year and now that hes finally okay to ride my husband's horse has to go and hurt himself ugh! It is just beyond frustrating, hes always been our go to guy and now hes having problems. We are soo careful with these boys, started them back very very slowly this year, haven't even gone beyond walking on the trails this year.
No idea what he did to himself, started with him crow hopping up hill when we were trail riding, we thought it was just being naughty at first until I saw him do it. Looked like his leg was sort of "stuck" then jerked it back up high and starting crow hopping. I thought it was his hock or stifle, vet thought possible pulled muscle but didn't really do a full exam on him (we were out of state and using our old vet). Having our new vet take a look at him, but can't get here til this friday, I hate waiting! |
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Location: North Dakota | Oh man do I feel your pain! Every horse I've bought has had some sort of mysterious injury/ailment in the first 2 months of me owning them. One somehow injured her stifle and after 2 years was never able to be fully rehabed to riding sound. Another got strangles, a hoof abscess, and then was diagnosed with kissing spine (I just started riding him again a couple weeks ago). The other was mysteriously lame on both his front feet. Had to get wedges and pads on his front hooves, which helped some, but then a couple months after getting those he came up lame for no reason in his back end! My vet hasn't been able to find what exactly the cause is so he's got 2 more months of being layed up until we see that he's healed or do some more searching. It's a pain.  that whatever's wrong with your pony is something not too serious that he'll recover from quickly! |
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Location: NE Texas | I would encourage you to contact Dr. Schell at Nouvelle Research and talk to him. Get your horses on more of a natural program and go from there. www.nouvelleresearch.com
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Location: Oklahoma | Sounds like his stifle locked to me. Internal blister and you keep riding. Pretty easy fix if you can find a vet who will still do internal blisters. Now all they want to do is inject. A blister goes in the ligament itself and doesn't invade the joint. |
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| I thought it was his stifle locking too. He'd rather lope than trot. He was running around like an idiot this morning with my horse and he looks like hes cantering with both hind legs together rather than one leading.
Just drives me nuts that I seem to always have a lame horse in the field, but then we have one neighbor that want us to go on an 8 mile "conditioning" ride first thing in the spring (no we didn't go lol). And the other neighbor who has 6 horses that haven't had farrier care in 2 years, and in a field that if I turned my horses out they'd came back with only 3 legs, an of course ever single one of them is sound!
I figure with all the vet bills I've paid I have a 12 year old arthritic grade quarter pony worth $4000 cause thats how it works right lol?
Edited by Buckles 2015-07-27 2:32 PM
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Location: Beggs, OK | Herbie - 2015-07-27 9:16 AM I would encourage you to contact Dr. Schell at Nouvelle Research and talk to him. Get your horses on more of a natural program and go from there. www.nouvelleresearch.com
Nutrition is my first concern as well. |
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| Vet thinks its his stifle, just not sure what. Had an ultrasound and couldn't find any soft tissue damage, so I guess thats good. Did see some light spots in the joint that she said was indicating inflammation. We will have to have her out again for x-rays, she didn't have the machine with her. Hes definitely worse than he was 3 weeks ago, we may have to separate him out from the other horse to keep them from running. And also vet wants him on the flat, which is a big problem since our property is on the side of a hill! |
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Location: Beggs, OK | dianeguinn - 2015-07-27 9:22 AM Sounds like his stifle locked to me. Internal blister and you keep riding. Pretty easy fix if you can find a vet who will still do internal blisters. Now all they want to do is inject. A blister goes in the ligament itself and doesn't invade the joint.
I agree. We blistered one of mine twice and fixed his problem completely. Not terribly expensive, but you have to make sure you ride them every day for a couple of weeks after the blister so that it works.
Mine would lock more on the right side. He could be running across the pasture and you'd see him kick out to unlock it. When I was riding him it was a weird staggering feeling. |
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | dianeguinn - 2015-07-27 9:22 AM Sounds like his stifle locked to me. Internal blister and you keep riding. Pretty easy fix if you can find a vet who will still do internal blisters. Now all they want to do is inject. A blister goes in the ligament itself and doesn't invade the joint.
Diane, you might want to give Dr Matz at Sapulpa a try, she still does the internal blister. She interned at Oakridge. And she studies chiro to compliment her medicine.
Of course years ago Liana taught me that the joint most often is inflammed from the catching so it is a good idea to do the joint. It has worked for us on a few. We did have one we had to do the splitting on and it finally got him tight enough to not catch. It is very painful. |
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| So the vet was back again... flexed him out again, he was coming up positive on his fetlock or so it seemed. We did nerve blocks on his hoof, pastern, and fetlock and still just as lame. X-rayed his hock and stifle, nothing coming up other than some mild arthritis the vet said was pretty normal looking for his age. I pretty much ran out of money at the point... So now hes back on pasture rest. His hips are most definately not even, by a LOT. Vet thought the right hip was dropped... however we had our farrier out the day after who also does massage and flexion therapy and he felt that hip was fine and the left was too high. He worked on him a bit after doing his feet and will be out again in two weeks. We ended up pulling his hind shoes off and rounding his toes off a bit, farrier though it would help him break over easier if it is a stifle issue.
I am just feeling pretty frustrated not really knowing what is going on here. |
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