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Discussion on Casting injury?
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Leslie1
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Posted on Monday, Nov 13, 2006 - 12:49 pm:
hi I went to feed this morn and noticed my filly has a 4 inch scrape on the top of her withers. Does that seem like a casting type injury? Not a significant injury, Im just wondering if I have a horse that casts itself. I cant find anything that she could have scraped it on while standing. There is a vertical wooden support beam/post in the middle of her stall. We have electric fencing so couldnt be from the fence. hmmmm curious.
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Hwood
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Posted on Monday, Nov 13, 2006 - 1:05 pm:
Is it a wide or narrow scrape, Leslie? Is the skin broken? Hair missing? Is she in with other horses? Does it cross her withers or follow along one side?
Might be a scrape of teeth from another horse if she got to playing with a pal.
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Leslie1
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Posted on Monday, Nov 13, 2006 - 8:58 pm:
Its about 2 inches wide and 4 inches long on left side of wither but up at the very top. The hair has scraped off but no broken skin. no bleeding. She is my only horse at this time. So no playing with a pal. I had her stalled last night. It is so weird. I searched high and low this morning for anything in her pen that she coulda done it on. Nada. She did lay down last night between her water trough and the wall of her stall ( about a 7X7 area) as the bedding was flat. There were no signs of thrashing about, no marks on the wall or trough.
AHHHHHHH - Horses and their mysterious boo boos.
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Mrose
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Posted on Tuesday, Nov 14, 2006 - 12:34 am:
Could she have rubbed or bumped against the post in her stall? It would seem to me that is the most likely thing. Of course you may never know. I've know horses to about cut off a leg while in a very safe looking stall, and the owner never could figure out what happened. You could wrap them in bubble wrap and put them in a padded stall and they could still hurt themselves!
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Leslie1
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Posted on Tuesday, Nov 14, 2006 - 10:47 am:
Yea I'll prolly never kno. LOL bubble wrap
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Paul303
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Posted on Tuesday, Nov 14, 2006 - 11:06 pm:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and likely as not, take a ride around, and go past the paddock made from busted pallets and scrap wood and metal where the horses stand in muck and feces up to their fetlocks, with old garbage and junk laying all around. Their "stalls" are old truck boxes rusted to pieces and the ground is covered in old tires and busted up cement. A huge round bale of hay is sitting directly in the muck and the horses are stepping all over it. They all wear old rope or nylon shipping halters permanently, and NEVER get caught on any of the myriad of hazards that surround them. They're covered in flies in summer, and stand in cold winter rains. C'mon, you all know this place, it's located maybe just around the corner or perhaps down the road apiece. And we all KNOW these horses are headed for a devastating accident any day now.....yet, every time we go by the place, they're all there, all apparently OK. And then we come home to our perfectly fenced, spic and span barns and paddocks with automatic waterers, fly sheets and sprays, winter blankets, spring blankets, clean dry ( practically padded) stalls, crystal clear water, balanced feed and supplements....and a huge fresh cut with skin hanging and blood trickling......sigh....
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Mrose
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Posted on Wednesday, Nov 15, 2006 - 12:07 am:
Lee, didn't know you'd been driving around in my neighborhood! You describe a couple of my neighbor's places perfectly. WHY don't their horses get injured?? It's something I've tried to figure out for a lot of years.
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Dres
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Posted on Wednesday, Nov 15, 2006 - 12:36 am:
Lee, got to tell ya, I laughed OUT LOUD on your post.. I have wondered the same WHY?? Then my hubby will say.. IF they were injured no one would care/ or even know..
On the first day God created horses, on the second day he painted them with spots..
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Paul303
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Posted on Wednesday, Nov 15, 2006 - 1:33 am:
I've convinced myself that God has searched long and hard to find superior placement for his equine klutzes. I have to believe that........
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Member:
Frances
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Posted on Wednesday, Nov 15, 2006 - 8:19 am:
Horses in these places have learnt to be REALLY careful - they KNOW they'd better look out for themselves. No-one's going to help them.
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Banthony
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Posted on Wednesday, Nov 15, 2006 - 10:11 am:
We also have beautiful pastures and nice 4 board fencing. Monday our 9 month pregnant mare cast herself in one of the sandy pits the horses roll in. She got her body into the low part with her legs sticking up a very slight rise.
My neighbors saw her and sent someone down the hill to get me. I leaped over the fence and ran up the hill - she looked dead. She didn't move until I touched her and then she jumped - that was the moment I figured out she was alive.
Not thinking ahead I had not grabbed a lead rope, but the guy who came to tell me had a belt on. He took a front foot and I looped the belt around her hind foot. I can tell you it wasn't easy to roll a 16 hand, 9 month in foal mare over! She was shaking when she got up and I hugged her around the neck for a long time.
She is body sore but other wise unhurt. No discharge or other indicator of a problem.
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Member:
Sunny66
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Posted on Wednesday, Nov 15, 2006 - 11:14 am:
LOL Lee 
I'm glad your mare is ok Linda.
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Member:
Erika
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Posted on Wednesday, Nov 15, 2006 - 2:45 pm:
Those horses that live in squalor are too malnourished to move--they don't go near anything !
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Member:
Tangoh
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Posted on Thursday, Nov 16, 2006 - 9:28 am:
Lee, that's hilarious, and oh sooo true! And Erika...equally as hilarious! 
The other interesting thing that's 'kinda' funny is that when I was a kid we never dewormed our horses, my dad would trim their feet with the cattle trimmers, we fed them whatever the cows ate, paid no attention to cuts and bumps and limps and such, never consulted a vet, never vaccinated, turned them out onto the back 40 for winter without seeing them for months, and they lived to ripe old ages of 25 years or more! Now, they live in almost 'sterile' environments, we vaccinate, medicate, supplement, blanket, bathe them, clip them, chiropractic and massage, trim, groom, take them to the dentist, coddle and fuss over, and...are they living longer? Are they happier? Or have we all just gone a little 'crazy' with inflicting human physical comforts onto our horses and turning them into 'hot house roses' that can't survive the elements???
Sorry...off topic...too much time on my hands today....
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Jgordo03
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Posted on Thursday, Nov 16, 2006 - 11:08 am:
Funny, Funny, Funny,
I'm ashamed of the amount of time I spend pouring over catalogs and online, comparing supplement and feed ingredients, which ones are best, how much to give, etc. Right now I'm looking at the best saddle pads, you know the ones that will give comfort to both you and your horse. Will my horse live longer? I have no idea but it keeps me busy and supporting the economy.
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