Horse slipped on ice, consequences?
Hello, I wanted to go for a run with my horse today. We have so much beautiful snow, but I was still aware that I had to be careful because there are lots of patches of ice, one right in front of our farm, a very large one. That was the only patch of ice we had to cross, otherwise all the paths were clear. I wanted to walk my mare along the side and not directly over it, but she was really excited and looking around because a horse was being loaded onto a trailer at the neighboring farm. She slipped on all four legs. She got up on her own and I then took her back to her open stable. On the way there, she didn't show any signs of breaking anything or anything, but I'm still blaming myself and worried that she's injured herself. Could signs appear in the next few days, or do you think that if she walked normally, nothing major happened? I'm just too worried right now and hope it's nothing major…I'd be grateful if you've had similar experiences or something else and could maybe help me out. Thanks in advance!
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Veterinary/good chiropractors come and stop looking for experience reports on the Internet 🙂 Such falls can take place in such a way that the more you are looking for experiences on the Internet, you will also find horror stories that do not have to be found on you now. You can’t change it anyway, happened. Instead of letting you be insecure or frightened by stories of similar incidents that are badly out of date, I would naturally observe the horse and, if necessary, let a chiropractor/osteopath come in the short term, let the horse control and then learn from history and be more careful in the future.
Thank you for the good words! Yes, you’re right, on the Internet you read the most different things, whether good or bad, thank you!
So practically the internet is, but in such things you should really ignore it. The stories with a positive outcome can make a reckless (“unless nothing happens, I don’t need a person skilled in the art”) and spread the negative only panic when you read what can be possible for consequences.
Better trust the expert and the investigation on site.
You’re sure that you’ve had a big luck that apparently didn’t happen to your horse, you’re sure she’ll watch the next days when she continues to run normal, no joint gets fat, the back is okay, then it’s pretty sure nothing happened.
However, no opinion from the network replaces the TA visit – to go to No safe…
Knowing someone who had just slipped out the horse on the ice plate, it was assumed that nix was worse – the next day a shoulder break turned out. Unfortunately nothing more to do…
Thank you very much for the first time, on the one hand, it calms a little on the other. Now in retrospect, I’m just making too big accusations myself, I could have thought that something like that would happen, but I just meant to take my horse. I’ll go to her in front of her in the hall in the morning to see if you recognize anything or something.. Hope of course Not, thank you!
Make sure your horse runs differently than usual and see if joints become thick. Usually, horses do not hurt so fast and so digest a slight fall quite well.
However, if you notice any vulnerabilities, for example, that it can get up badly or paralyze, then you should be a veterinarian.
And if she had hurt herself now, or what would have been quite big, you should have seen it running right after the fall or not? Because after the fall, it ran quite normal, but as always it was quite excited and inattentive.. I’ll watch the next days in every case! Thank you!
Let someone look at it, who knows well with horses.
Just because no bone projects out of the leg and it does not paralyze, it is ned that is nix.
See her again a day and call a veterinarian.
Can also call for security. But as you have noticed. You see some things only after a while.
Wish you all the best 🙂
In such actions, there can be easily large hematomas, which show themselves not immediately, but mostly the next day. We once had such a case at the stable, it’s been a long time since the horse was only allowed to be guided because of an injury, has got excited and has slipped away on the smooth ground. It then had a hematom in the thigh that had to be cut open.
The likelihood is very great that it has broken a bit and also hematome do so only after hours,
Get a vet or physiotherapists to the stable.
In addition: sprinkle the ice plate properly well with a lot of sand & d a little salt
Use another exit! I’m sure he’ll have to take part.
I hope nothing bad happened.
Just like a human. Directly after an accident, the pain sensation can be reduced by the adrenaline rush.
Also, bruises or similar things often spread only in a few days so that they make themselves uncomfortable noticeable.
I would take care of the next days for loose movement, observe the horse well and, of course, consult the doctor with the slightest concerns (even days later).
watch her move tomorrow.
I hope that after this experience you have scattered the ice plate with sand or split so that no more horses slip out.
Let veterinarian look over it, more can’t do it. Horses are also not made of glass
Never seen how fast a horse’s leg is off, right? Hope you’re saved!
Just look very carefully tomorrow. At the first moment, they are so under adrenaline that it covers everything, because a fleeing animal only rises in a tidular manner when it pulls his legs away – it is not quite favorable for the escape to go to the ground.
There it is, horse into his flock, let it eat, let it come to rest – some of the flocks, after such an experience, look after all the other horses, whether really everything is good, others need something urgently to eat …
And if the experience is digested, just check his horse for a walk: normal? Joint mobility normal? Something thick or hot? Even if it fpr the horse is a really saudummes experience, it is not the first horse that once crashed. There are also such specimens that seem somehow never to understand that the winter also has its mosquitoes and you can simply not scatter the whole world – and even then it is sometimes so in the case of unfavorable weather conditions that the effect is puffed after 5 min, e.g. in the case of ice rain. For example, if you need half an hour to scatter the entire open-stall area, you don’t have a chance and the horses have to be mindful too, because then it’s not even because you got them out like you did. So you don’t always have a chance, and so is a possible thought, you would have left it better in the stable, now not appropriate.
What is worth considering if the mare doesn’t run anyway is to convert it to the future risk minimization. If the barhuf stops, I don’t normally stop at my feet. We’ve had it more often that I let my horse lead me. I’ve been riding with ours since they went barely, and I’ve never dared to get over with the beaten horses. But if the horse goes too far next to its center of gravity in excitement, the best barhuf doesn’t help any more … but think about it when it looked tomorrow. That she’s in the herd now is top. Grade bruises – and without it may not have gone off, feel nasty if they are not in motion and they calm down even better when they are with their flock colleagues.