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Post by dickel on Oct 10, 2016 16:22:38 GMT
Pepper and Kricket broke down a stall door in the night to get to Trixie and Bella. Bella has a few scratches but Trixie got brutalized. She has part of her upper lip bit clear off. Her right ear is just hanging. I took her to the Vet this forenoon and she will be there until they get her put back together. Most likely I will pick her up this evening. I hope that Doc can fix her so the ear will stand up again. I have been just sick.
The Vet said someone brought a giant pulling horse in for him to check out that he had just paid 50,000.00 for.
While I was there someone brought in there dog that had been bow shot by a deer hunter. I bet someone is going to jail.
Two race horses where in the stocks when I got there. I didn't ask what was up with them.
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Post by horselady on Oct 10, 2016 19:06:38 GMT
Poor babies.. hope they are ok.. and how old are pepper and kricket.  perhaps time to sell or get rid of those that are not respective of your little horses ... let me say if they were mine.. they would be either in a different part of the farm or gone to a new home |
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Post by mistersmom on Oct 10, 2016 19:26:36 GMT
Oh no. I hope Trixie will be all sewed up by this afternoon.
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Post by dickel on Oct 10, 2016 20:12:36 GMT
Poor babies.. hope they are ok.. and how old are pepper and kricket. perhaps time to sell or get rid of those that are not respective of your little horses ... let me say if they were mine.. they would be either in a different part of the farm or gone to a new home Both Pepper and Kricket will soon be victim of the mind changing knife. Dock Said 150.00 each for everything. Kricket will have to die here on the farm. He has an allergy that causes him to have a runny nose and he breaths hard. Kricket was more than likely the one that did the biting. I am working with Pepper and cloud as a team. They stand to be harnessed and touch noses without biting each other. Kricket is Pepper's dad and they fight until Pepper will not come up to eat one day and the next they are grazing side by side. Pepper is larger but Kricket will get the best of Pepper. Kricket is always good around me but from time to time I have thought about horse burger when I have to tie him to get Pepper in to feed. I got a shelter cleaned and disinfected Saturday and the manure all out of the lot ready for Bella and Trixie. That is away from the older larger horses. They will be safe there. I am building a steel angle iron stall door with 2"X 6" penna using steel strap hinges to replace the one they smashed. The one they smashed had a 2"X 4" frame. The 2"X 4" the hinges was screwed to split jagged from top to bottom length ways. The latch and hinges were not damaged. It looked like split fire wood. Had to be a freak thing. |
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Post by horselady on Oct 11, 2016 1:00:36 GMT
i hope she is ok... i would imaging vet prescribed antibiotic cream and pennicillen as for the boys.. welll best do the deed.. i wonder if the runny nose might be a blockage?? i have a stallion with copd and i use vicks on his nose and chest for when he is having issues.. perhaps it is something to try...
and steel is good.. but they sure had to kick that stall door to make it break.
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Post by dickel on Oct 11, 2016 23:25:54 GMT
Trixie will be at the clinic until some time Saturday. They waited until this afternoon to repair the ear. Doc called me about four this afternoon and said she was running around in the back of the clinic and doing well. He said the ear is standing up good and he wanted to keep her there to keep her from having a train wreck. He waited until this afternoon to let the stuff he kept on the tissue to cause the tissue to regenerate so it would grow back together. He used a lot of terms and names of meds that is way above my pay grade. He also had to operate on her side where she had been kicked. I'll probly need to sell all of the horses to pay the bill.  smileys-sad-593832  |
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Post by carshon on Oct 12, 2016 15:20:38 GMT
Glad to hear she is doing better. Just a thought and I know it would be hard - but maybe it is time to geld all the stallions? I know how much you love your babies but accidents like this remind us all that stallions are still stallions regardless of their outward size
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Post by dickel on Oct 12, 2016 16:33:50 GMT
Glad to hear she is doing better. Just a thought and I know it would be hard - but maybe it is time to geld all the stallions? I know how much you love your babies but accidents like this remind us all that stallions are still stallions regardless of their outward size Past time, Way past time. The Vet at the clinic does not do house call. All animals have to be taken to him. The Vet that will come out is swell but does not have assistants to help with large animals. Three years ago I ask him to do it and he said he would but he would need three helpers. The Clinic has a lot of helpers around to help. I ask about it when I took Trixie in and he gets 150.00 a head to geld the miniature horses. I think I will check on finding an Amish gelder. I heard that they get from 30 to 50 dollars a head. |
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Post by horselady on Oct 12, 2016 20:46:40 GMT
Your vet needs 3 helpers to geld a mini?? i hope the amish at least use drugs... for that price... if not darmosadan and ace... yikes.. perhaps consider selling the studs.. they are cute and if registered they might be worth a few dollars. and if not than geldings make great ponyparty ponies. i hope you can get this situation resolved.. with out harm ..
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Post by dickel on Oct 12, 2016 22:56:53 GMT
Your vet needs 3 helpers to geld a mini?? i hope the amish at least use drugs... for that price... if not darmosadan and ace... yikes.. perhaps consider selling the studs.. they are cute and if registered they might be worth a few dollars. and if not than geldings make great ponyparty ponies. i hope you can get this situation resolved.. with out harm .. The home vet didn't say why but the horse would have to be put down and held out in the yard while he gelded them. The clinic has all kinds of equipment. One thing in one area is a very large tilting table. He said with the meds and all would be 150.00. I didn't ask the home vet what he would charge. I have never felt over charged be either vet. He normally has 20 or more horses at the clinic. He has a couple farms with small lots. the one farm is where he takes horses he wants to watch before they are picked up healed. One large fancy horse trailer rig goes by my place every day with Tenn. plates that moves horses to and fro from the clinic. |
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Post by horselady on Oct 12, 2016 23:26:15 GMT
I suppose depending on the age of the horse... the office operation is best in case there is a problem.. i am told that the older a stallion is,, over 14 the danger is in bleeding.. BUT tossed on the grass in the yard especially after first frost as there are no bugs is ideal also... but again your choice and of course safety and monies are always a concern.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 16:29:58 GMT
Poor Trixie and Bella! I hope that everyone is starting to feel better. I think gelding for a boys is probably an excellent idea. It will likely make them more marketable if you end up having to sell as well (which hopefully you don't!).
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Post by dickel on Oct 15, 2016 20:35:29 GMT
I picked up Trixie yesterday afternoon. I put her in a lot by herself with fresh baled hay. I set in the lot with her for a half hour or so to watch to see if she wanted to rub her ear. she showed no signs of it bothering her at all. Dixie and I had an appointment and was gone for two hours. the first thing I did when we returned is to go out to see how she was doing. Her ear was al covered in blood and the bottom was flopping apart where it had been stitched. It was 20 after five when I got in the house and the vet was gone. I called the vets Son, he called hid dad the vet and they were headed out of town and he said have at the clinic at nine this morning. When I drove in the parking lot was packed with people out side walking dogs. the vet came back after a while and looked at Trixie's ear and said, Oh that is not so bad, When I get all these small animals out of the way we'll fix it up. He came back a little after eleven and there was one large horse that was brought in and put in a stocks and two other horse trailers that had cam in. All the horse people was making over Trixie and the vet bragged on Trixie to then as to what a nice horse she was. He cleaned the ear up some and put in staples. He gave more spray to deaden the feeling in her ear and wants to see her back Wed. Dixie helped me give Trixie her meds after lunch. I need to empty the horse trailer and put her up in there where she would have all smooth sides.
I think while we were gone she tried to reach thru under the electric fence for grass, touched the wire and jerked up and back catching her ear. It is only a guess but I don't see any other way to rip the stitches out like she did by just rubbing it. Doc said she didn't damage the internal stitches in the cartilage that hold her eat up. That ear moves when she moves the other one which he said was a good thing and he thinks she will be fine but probably will have somewhat of a lop ear.
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perhaps time to sell or get rid of those that are not respective of your little horses ... 
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