Post by ribrabs on Apr 21, 2010 7:57:14 GMT
I've spent the last 18 months in life trying so hard to get my loan mare sound.
She could go for weeks absolutely fine and then BAMB, back to being lame, but not of the nodding variety, no nothing so easy! She was lame on one rein only when schooling. She had a lump on one knee (near fore) and of course it was always that leg that gave the trouble.
The vet who came to view her (and who wasn't my first choice of vet!) decided it was DGD and that the prognosis wasn't great. I was devistated as this mare is only rising 8, hasn't had much of a competitive life and I couldn't understand why she would have such a problem so early on. Anyway my farrier disagreed and felt it could be prenavicular, although he wasn't sure without x rays etc. So we put heartbar shoes on her to see what would happen.
This was a disaster as she ended up really lame and very unhappy......exit with speed, the shoes! So yet another call to the vet's to request x rays. They were done yesterday and sadly the outcome is that she isn't ever going to be competitively sound. She has had a hairline fracture on her knee (thus the lump) and is now in the stages of arthritis. This vet (who is an equine expert) has said that whatever has happened, happened about 18 - 24 months ago (just before I got her) and that sadly she has no ridden career available. I could cry. She is such a wonderful mare and so easy to deal with. She is such a trier and it is so unfair that she has ended up like this.
Life is just so unfair at times. I'm truely sick of horses just now. Nothing ever seems to go right. Is it too much to ask that I find a horse to ride that I can enjoy and take out competitively?!
She could go for weeks absolutely fine and then BAMB, back to being lame, but not of the nodding variety, no nothing so easy! She was lame on one rein only when schooling. She had a lump on one knee (near fore) and of course it was always that leg that gave the trouble.
The vet who came to view her (and who wasn't my first choice of vet!) decided it was DGD and that the prognosis wasn't great. I was devistated as this mare is only rising 8, hasn't had much of a competitive life and I couldn't understand why she would have such a problem so early on. Anyway my farrier disagreed and felt it could be prenavicular, although he wasn't sure without x rays etc. So we put heartbar shoes on her to see what would happen.
This was a disaster as she ended up really lame and very unhappy......exit with speed, the shoes! So yet another call to the vet's to request x rays. They were done yesterday and sadly the outcome is that she isn't ever going to be competitively sound. She has had a hairline fracture on her knee (thus the lump) and is now in the stages of arthritis. This vet (who is an equine expert) has said that whatever has happened, happened about 18 - 24 months ago (just before I got her) and that sadly she has no ridden career available. I could cry. She is such a wonderful mare and so easy to deal with. She is such a trier and it is so unfair that she has ended up like this.
Life is just so unfair at times. I'm truely sick of horses just now. Nothing ever seems to go right. Is it too much to ask that I find a horse to ride that I can enjoy and take out competitively?!
