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| Anyone have a horse begin swishing that didn't before. Did you vet? What were the findings? |
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| I have seen horses with sore hocks show it with tail swishing. Maybe just a basic lameness exam would be in order. |
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | scwebster - 2017-02-23 10:03 PM Anyone have a horse begin swishing that didn't before. Did you vet? What were the findings?
If I had one start out of the blue then yes I would wonder what has started bothering them. |
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Location: Texas | I have a horse that used to ring/swish his tail a LOT. Especially when going around a barrel. He ended up having Kissing Spine. Had surgery done... no more tail swishing and he is a completely different horse, i.e. calm, quiet, loving, easy going, sweet, wants to work the barrels, etc. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I would start checking your tack, saddle, cinch, pad, how the bit is sitting.. and if that looks all good then vet.. |
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Location: Texas | Most likely a pain issue. Make sure your tack fits correctly and if that's not the issue, get a chiro and vet out. |
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| My horse has been a tail Swisher since she was 3. She is now 5 working barrels and didn't feel off at all. She was giving me everything and doing well. I decided to take her to a lameness vet just to make sure u wasn't missing anything. Like I said she rode sound and working great just really swished her tail and was bad when making a run turns out she had loose stifles. Just had her injected so I'm excited to see if it changed anything. I'd definitely look into it and have a good vet look her over just in case. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | We bought one cheap that would swish her tail so bad that the guy had started braiding her tail and tying it to the saddle... She would also pee going down the pen when he was roping off of her.
She had a MAJOR urinary tract infection and once I got her cleaned up, no more tail swishing or peeing. |
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Location: NE Texas | scwebster - 2017-02-23 10:03 PM
Anyone have a horse begin swishing that didn't before. Did you vet? What were the findings?
Had one that did it long time ago. Worked fine most of the time - no lameness issues but she would bang her hips against the stall/trailer when in season. Turned out to be ovary problems - she foaled once but had lots of problems so never bred her again. |
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