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Ann
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Username: Dres
Post Number: 523
Registered: 10-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 10:02 am: |   |
so my question is... if a horse has OCD in his stifles..or if a horse had a torn tendon/ ligament some where in his hind legs ( equally short on both hinds )... could he rear up and stand and paw the air several times to play ? He looked like a circus horse... lovely to watch.. .. he then would come down into a lovely collected canter... then trot out in a nice trot lengthening... all this with not a hitch or short stride in his giddy up.... The day was windy and I had another horse in the arena next to him being shown for purchase...
Later in the day I watched this horse in the pasture trot out nicely from time to time again without a hitch in his hind end.....
Can adrenalin make a horse forget about pain on a windy day all day? Or as my husband says ''This horse has your number, he shortens up his stride so you won't work him"
sorry for the what if question...Ann
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jos
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Username: Paardex
Post Number: 42
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 11:02 am: | |
Ann, I don't know about the tendon ligament thing, but we have had more then one OCD [stifle and elsewhere] horses doing everything you described and more.We had them always operated [if possible] and excluded from breeding but just to be on the safe side not because they were lame or short in their gaits or even in work.Ofcourse we have had the occasional OCD horse with pain to.
Jos |
Sara Wolff
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Username: Mrose
Post Number: 680
Registered: 1-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 11:13 am: | |
Maybe he has "good" and "bad" days? I've not had a horse with OCD, but do have a mare that had a knee injury and consequently surgery. Some days she is galloping and bucking in the field, and other days she looks like it's an effort to even walk. |
Ann
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Username: Dres
Post Number: 524
Registered: 10-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, May 29, 2005 - 11:28 am: | |
Jos, thanks for the reply, this horse is a gelding, he won't be in my breeding program.. I am really not sure what is going on in the hind end currently, had his hocks x rayed, showed no changes and he does bend them willingly.hindsight I should have had the stifles x rayed while at the clinic.. so I am grasping at straws now..
Sara, boy I have good days and bad days as well.. but it just seems if I had a serious injury even on my good days I would show some pain ..
darn horses anyway....
On the first day God created horses, on the second day he painted them with SPOTS.. |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 12967
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 9:00 am: | |
As everyone suggests it depends on the location and severity of the injury, Ann. There are certainly many lamenesses that are evident in a ring but not obvious at pasture and yes, excitement can make a lameness less obvious.
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Aileen
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Username: Sunny66
Post Number: 818
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 30, 2005 - 12:52 pm: | |
Could a long, ongoing front end lameness cause the hind to short stride? I know your guy has front feet issues, muscles compensating perhaps? Did you try him today?
Gotta love these mysteries |
Ann
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Username: Dres
Post Number: 525
Registered: 10-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - 10:18 am: | |
Aileen and others, that is what I am thinking, becus of the the long term issues with the front feet and now not being worked much in 15 weeks other then turn out, that he is tight behind... the equine chiropractor stated that he was the ''body builder'' of horses and very tight behind...
No I have not had the time this weekend to trot him out.. I plan on to this AM .. . I am going to follow thru with my plan.. pull the special shoes up front, put reg. shoes on him and out to pasture ... as my uncle has said all along.. TIME HEALS IF IT IS SUPPOSE TO HEAL...
If they could only speak human clearly...
On the first day God created horses, on the second day he painted them with SPOTS.. |
