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Michelle Taylor
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Username: Khomagic
Post Number: 10
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 12:56 pm: |   |
I have a Purebred Arabian colt who is now 2 years old. I bought him at 11 months of age, he had lived in a large paddock at the farm I got him from. He was shipped to me and then lived in a stall. He injured both of his front cannons within two weeks arrivial. He has bumps on the cannon bone itself. On the inside of the legs. He was quite lame initially, had my vet out he said splints, but the defect is on the cannon bone and not the splint bone. We gave him bute, stall rest and tried pressure wraps and sweats but he will not wear leg wraps, takes them off and uses the bandages like a flag. He is no longer lame, but still has the bumps allthough they aren't as large looking as he's grown up. He has straight front legs and tracks straight. He has grown substantially since I bought him he was almost as tall as my two year old filly when I bought him I'd say 13 hands. He is now easily 15.1 and still growing. My ferrier has guessed by looking at his knees that he will mature around 16 hands. I have not done any really strenuous work with him and even put of teaching him to lunge until this past winter and even now I don't lunge him very often and alway use splint boots when I do.
I read this article thinking maybe he has bucked shins but it sounds like his injury would be to the front of his leg not the side. Can a horse get bucked shins without being in race training? I have done less with him than with any other young horse I've ever had wanting to give him time to grow up and not re-injure him. I hope to be able to start him under saddle later this fall so will need to be able to do ground work etc. prior to this. What are some good questions to ask my vet prior to starting him. I have never gotten any further with the vet on this problem he kept insisting that they were splints and didn't want to do x-rays even. I would think as they work on race horses locally that they would see things like this, but as I said previously he hasn't been worked much less race trained. I think he injured himself originally in his stall rolling in the shavings, a luxury he'd never had in his life. He lives to roll loves to do it any where it's soft. He is a violent roller just crashes from side to side when rolling. So I think this could have been a contributing factor.
Sorry to ramble.
Michelle |
