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[Mood Swings]

Sometimes you can go months without ANY injuries or sickness and then all of the sudden bang there is not one but several!

I was fortunate to be able to go away for the weekend to ski country with a few friends It was great! However, I hadn't left for home when I get a message from the girl working at the barn telling me that a horse was injured. Apparently the colt was kicked and a vein in his leg was severed - messy but not too serious. Today I had a few horses that were jealous of the attention?! ... because two other yearlings came in with injuries. A colt in a different paddock also got kicked (in the same leg ) and has a stitchable cut and a filly with a swollen fetlock. When I started bringing mares in one of them felt I didn't get out to her quickly enough and put her leg though the gate and then couldn't get it out again until I helped her. I think she may have bowed her tendon So I've gone from an injury free group to treating four horses in the span of 24 hours!

Anyone else find that injuries and sickness are not isolated to one horse at any given time?

[majxmom]

Boy, that is so true. I have 25 horses, and I will go months without administering anything, and as soon as one gets banged up and need a little SMZ, then there will be one after another until the jinx is lifted.

[KBEquine]

At our farm, it was my husband --

He did a 32-mile round trip to pick up a horse, mostly through miserable rain. On the way back the rain was driving so hard it took the paint off the horse trailer & the last part of the trip was through freezing rain. He called from the PA border at 4:30 a.m. to ask me to turn on the barn lights & I called back to tell him just how slippery it was in the the riding area, where he would be unloading the new stallion.

Fortunately, he was holding onto the door when he stepped out of the truck because that almost broke his fall -- but he still broke his ankle in 2 places, dislocated it & needed a plate/screws.

When the ambulance hauled him away I was there alone, at 5 a.m., with a stallion I'd never met in the trailer, wondering how the heck I'd get him out of the trailer without him suffering the same fate as my husband . . .

Fortunately, he came out safely, easily & like a gentleman - and my husband's recovering, too.

But I truly wish we didn't have mares to foal this spring, since my husband generally births the babies & he doesn't even have the hard cast, yet. Oh well.

[Crystal]

I think Murphy's Law applies to all aspects of equine ownership.

I owned a Arabian mare who was just beautiful. She was a National halter horse. She would win everytime out, if you could keep her together. Don't even whisper "Horseshow" or let her catch you packing the trailer because she would find some way to injure herself.

We had her "make up kit" in the trailer. Which included kids halloween colored hairspray in black and white. I became a master of making grey and touching up my horse before a halter class..

p.s. Also works great for Sale Prep horses!!!

[madelyn]

At our farm, it was my husband --

He did a 32-mile round trip to pick up a horse, mostly through miserable rain. On the way back the rain was driving so hard it took the paint off the horse trailer & the last part of the trip was through freezing rain. He called from the PA border at 4:30 a.m. to ask me to turn on the barn lights & I called back to tell him just how slippery it was in the the riding area, where he would be unloading the new stallion.

Fortunately, he was holding onto the door when he stepped out of the truck because that almost broke his fall -- but he still broke his ankle in 2 places, dislocated it & needed a plate/screws.....

You have my Deepest sympathy. I am the general horse dogsbody here and nothing happens if I don't do it, and I broke my leg/ankle last March, mid month. Slipped on snow & ice down a steep embankment into the mare paddock just as they were running over to get hay and got clipped by a hind foot. Needed surgery. No insurance. This was ensued by The Most Disastrous year of my life. We ended up with six mares in foal out of 16, one mare bred to the wrong stallion, and in the economic toilet. I can tell you I was really celebrating on New Year's Eve to see the end of that putrid 2008. I fervently hope you and your husband fare better than we did, and that he is not as crippled as I was (I still have a limp).

[KBEquine]

At our farm, it was my husband --

He did a 32-mile round trip to pick up a horse, mostly through miserable rain. On the way back the rain was driving so hard it took the paint off the horse trailer & the last part of the trip was through freezing rain. He called from the PA border at 4:30 a.m. to ask me to turn on the barn lights & I called back to tell him just how slippery it was in the the riding area, where he would be unloading the new stallion.

Fortunately, he was holding onto the door when he stepped out of the truck because that almost broke his fall -- but he still broke his ankle in 2 places, dislocated it & needed a plate/screws.....

You have my Deepest sympathy. I am the general horse dogsbody here and nothing happens if I don't do it, and I broke my leg/ankle last March, mid month. Slipped on snow & ice down a steep embankment into the mare paddock just as they were running over to get hay and got clipped by a hind foot. Needed surgery. No insurance. This was ensued by The Most Disastrous year of my life. We ended up with six mares in foal out of 16, one mare bred to the wrong stallion, and in the economic toilet. I can tell you I was really celebrating on New Year's Eve to see the end of that putrid 2008. I fervently hope you and your husband fare better than we did, and that he is not as crippled as I was (I still have a limp).

You know, I remembered about your accident last year & sometime around 5 a.m eastern on that disasterous day, I thought of you . . . I KNOW how hard the work is on a farm . . . but to go from just a little to ALL of it . . . man.

Fortunately, my husband seems to be progressing, although it is really too soon to tell.

[teb]

I have a filly who came in one day a couple of weeks ago with a mystery puncture in her foot - nice. We are now on our 3rd round of antibiotics and this one is oh so expensive. No coffin bone damage, but none the less nasty. So my vet was here and saying you know, you guys never call anymore. Yes, well that's because everything was going nicely! And our vet bill was finally paid in full for once. Thank you filly. Then we too also had 2 nasty slices on 2 other horses this week.

KBequine, oh your poor husband!

Terri