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Discussion on Pain in horses stomach when I touch it.
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New Member:
Jeff
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Posted on Sunday, Mar 16, 2003 - 10:11 pm:
When I touch my 9year old shire mares stomach she will look at you with her ears back and walk away like it hurts. She use to love to have her stomach rubbed so something has happened. It is on her lower stomach toward the back. I would say where her ribs ends at the bottom. I asked my vet months ago about this and he thought it was because we were doing a lot of training with her and she was getting saddle sour. She hates to see the saddle but she is a very lazy draft horse and we thought that might be why but now we think it might be something wrong. We have not rode her with a saddle in months and have giving her months off because we have been busy. She still has the same reaction if you just walk up and touch that one spot. We can touch her everywhere else with no problem. We got a stud in a few months before we started training and before our mare was sore. We had him gelded right away and when he did get turned out with our herd a month later they did breed several times but he was a gelding at that time. I'm wondering could he have giving her something and she is showing signs of that? Is there any test I could have done to see if she has any kind of infection?
Thanks
Donna
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Moderator:
DrO
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Posted on Monday, Mar 17, 2003 - 6:43 am:
Hello Donna,
This is the same response you get from many horses and if the problem is simple touching yet there is no disease process evident on the skin, I agree with your vet: this is a behavorial change. Horses like people change.
DrO
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