One of the reasons you should buy a Welsh Cob is that they make up for their purchase price in a lack of vet (and farrier, for that matter) bills over their lifetime. I think it's the (at times annoyingly) strong sense of self-preservation.
Anyway, I've owned Connor almost four years and Sunday we had our first injury! Feel free to punch me, because you can hardly call it that.
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| From pastern to stifle |
It looks like...I have no idea. I think the fence was involved, because there's white paint on the inside of the right hind hoof:
Maybe he slid underneath the fence all the way to his stifle? I couldn't see any signs of a struggle in the paddock. Remember, he's on solo turnout because otherwise he's impossible to catch, so whatever it was is self-inflicted. He doesn't even share a fenceline with anyone.
One way or another, he's fine, he just scraped the skin with the exception of the one spot on his pastern, above.
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| CARNAGE! |
The leg was swollen, so I cold hosed and put TriCare on it, then threw him on the lunge line to make absolutely sure he was sound before I got on him.
Uh....yep. Survey says: sound.
When he got done with that, the leg was still warm but the swelling had gone down. Success.
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| Not yet cool, but tight. |
Thus concludes the quad-annual Welsh Cob injury post. You may continue with your daily lives now.
13 comments:
Lucky you. I think I had quarterly injuries with Houston... Most requiring vet attention.
I don't think you're allowed to call that an injury! ;)
Hm yeah that's just "a day in the life of Courage".
Indestructible.
Built Welsh tough :-)
Oh, and I LOVE tri care. Best. Ointment. Ever
my 3 yr old tb LOVES to do crap like this. only when he does he gets puncture wounds and rips huge chunks of skin off.....
I so need a Welsh Cob.
Yesssssssssss I will enable the shit out of that!
haha that's awesome. my horse is similarly injury-averse, tho her few wounds tend to be poorly timed and overly dramatic.... #mares
I don't even notice stuff like that on Mo anymore.
I'm not sure it qualifies as an injury if he's still sound :)
Yep- he's sound :)
.... So basically like an average weekday for Kat hahahahaha ohmygod I hate warmbloods
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