On Friday 13th, I had a call from our lovely YO to say that our horse (6YO Mare) had gone down in her stable. She got back up straight away but looked a bit "spaced out" for a while.
The vet came out within 2 hours, took bloods and gave her a check over. No colic. Bloods showed elevated "stress" hormones.
Horse left in field for 2 weeks, not ridden at all. Repeat blood test still showing raised stress hormones. Vet says this indicates pain.
Tomorrow she is going to have a head X-ray and a "scope" at the vet's practice ,which will mean a 20 min drive.
We are new to horse ownership,
this horse belongs to my 14 yo daughter, we bought her last December and apart from the usual settling in stuff she has been great.
I think my questions are:
Has anyone else experienced this?
If tomorrows tests are clear, would you want further tests?
Would you let your 14 yo daughter ride the horse without a clear outcome?
The ideal outcome tomorrow, is that they will spot something that is easily fixed.
The worst outcome is that they find something awful and she has to be pts.
The other outcome is that they still don't know and want to do more tests.
What would you do if it was the last scenario? She is insured, so that isn't an issue.
At the moment, we have a horse my daughter can't ride, or lunge even.
Would you regard this as a "one off" and ignore it if it were your horse?
All thoughts and advice appreciated.
Thank you
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soda1234 · 02/06/2011 00:50
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