Posted 2009-09-06 2:56 PM (#110340) Subject: Anyone had a horse break a pelvis?
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Posts: 489 Location: CA
We had a Welsh/QH pony stay with us for a month during the summer. He was really cute, calm and sweet. He went to another stable and the next day his owner said he was three-legged lame. She had her vet out and eventually they determined he had broken his pelvis! How did this happen? Did it happen here? He was hand walked to his new stable and showed no signs of lameness that were obvious. Have any of you had experience with this?
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Posted 2009-09-07 5:27 AM (#110347 - in reply to #110340) Subject: RE: Anyone had a horse break a pelvis?
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Posts: 270 Location: Roanoke IL
my neighbor's horse slipped on ice and did something like the splits and broke its pelvis. It was old, and they put her down. Maybe the pony slipped in mud or something. Horses are so surprisingly fragile....
Posted 2009-09-07 11:20 AM (#110354 - in reply to #110340) Subject: RE: Anyone had a horse break a pelvis?
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Posts: 489 Location: CA
No mud in Calif during the summers....More like FIRES! My pasture is sandy, so even there I find it hard to figure out how he could have broken such a huge bone. Poor little guy. He is on stall rest for 3 months, after which they'll re-check him to see if he can move around or stay on stall rest for longer. The vet thinks he'll recover. I hope so...He is such a nice little guy.
Posted 2009-09-07 3:40 PM (#110359 - in reply to #110340) Subject: RE: Anyone had a horse break a pelvis?
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Posts: 97 Location: Newport News, VA
There was a filly on stall rest at a barn I boarded at years ago that broke her palvis. She had had a bone chip removed and was stall bound. No idea how she managed that one. They found her unable to get up. She was in a sling in the stall for several weeks. She recovered.
Posted 2009-09-07 4:26 PM (#110361 - in reply to #110340) Subject: RE: Anyone had a horse break a pelvis?
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Yay! That's good news. One of my horses has a "dropped hip", which is where the point of their hip gets knocked off...usually while running around, through gates and such...when they're foals. It's fairly common, with most of the horses recovering fully as mine did( I bought him as a 4yo). This pony, however, has a full-on fracture in the wide part of his pelvis and he's 7, so his bones should be fully developed. Weird. Thanks for the response, and especially since it was a good outcome.
Posted 2009-09-07 10:32 PM (#110385 - in reply to #110340) Subject: RE: Anyone had a horse break a pelvis?
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Posts: 1989 Location: South Central OK
I have heard a stroy about this happening to a filly tied to a tree at an old trainer of mine, she broke it by fighting the tree she was tied to and hit another tree with her hips in the process. I was told never to tie a horse amongst a group of trees...the moral of the story. They put her down, but I'm sure she was insured and sometimes that makes choices for owners, right or not.
Posted 2009-09-07 10:37 PM (#110386 - in reply to #110340) Subject: RE: Anyone had a horse break a pelvis?
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Posts: 48 Location: Northern IL
Glad to hear that all is going to be okay.
When I went to college years ago (23 yrs ago) a classmate of mine was unloading her horse when it slipped on an icey spot and did the splits. The mare got up and walked away like nothing happened. A few days later when she went to ride the mare she seemed "off" and wasn't moving right in the hind end. A vet was called and it was determined that she had a very severe pelvic break and it would be best to put her down. By this time the mare was down and couldn't get up. Some of them come out of it okay and some aren't so lucky...
Posted 2009-09-07 11:00 PM (#110388 - in reply to #110340) Subject: RE: Anyone had a horse break a pelvis?
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Posts: 489 Location: CA
Well, I guess it's not unheard of since several of you have seen/heard of this. So far the owner isn't trying to blame anyone, though the ranch that had him the one day after my house is claiming it must have happened at my place. At my house he was in his own 2 acre pasture on grass and sandy soil. At her place he was in a pipe corral with 2 other horses that he didn't know. We'll probably never know how it happened. I'll keep you posted about his recovery. Keep your fingers crossed!
Yes, I've heard of people having horses put down because they were worth more dead...$*%@* insurance companies!! The woman who owns this pony says she feels like tattooing her Visa card # inside his lip. He's worth it though.
Anyone had a horse break a pelvis?
