[RC] Silly horse wounded professional escape artist - ladurgin
I was thinking maybe I should try to have his stifle wound stitched after reading some posts--and after I made a 50 X50 electic Ramm 3 strand fence.
Ha,-Well he has the Apx.qh height and build mostly, and the arab half brains-- I put #1 old horse in with him as I have to feed him 2x a day anyway.
First night I had 3 strands of fence and 2 handles---He with help from the donkey I suspect, lifted the bottom handle and left breaking the cheap corner connnecter .
So I added 3 strands and made better electric connections.I got him up to the barn at mealtime---BTW ---I did melt the pills in water, added some molasses and mixed with a small amount of beetpulp and handful of alphalfa pellets. He ate it very greedily. It's worked twice so no fight with the meds. We did more dancing and soaking, he was better about it as no cleaners were involved. And I let him nose it and drink from it. So last night I left them in the stalls , and fed him this morning. How did he poop in his water bucket so neatly? I put hay in the enclosure. We played with the hose and did some more hosing . Made sure I gently hosed above the wound. The other two arabs and donkey were up there. I left, and watched from the house, 2 arabs and donkey left, HE started running the fence line-- Looked like he was looking for a weak spot. I turned around and came back a miniute later, he was gone and old horse was looking the way he went.Great. Sure enough he broke the cheap connector and popped thru the bottom strand.
Now as a baby I had a creep feeder made out of electric tape. Someone said, "better not do that, it will teach them to go under fence for the rest of their life". Sure 'nuff, that is what he has done when it's only a strand or two or weak connectors. He just lifts it up. He'd never be a candidate for an electric one strand fence. Maybe if he was dumber it would work.Sort of like a bold tb with an arab smarts.
So I guess I am glad I it wasn't stitched , they'd been popped twice.-- My daughter said if I had to keep him in a stall to get some ACE. But the stall is sort of small for him and I don't like drugs.
We are going to dig thru the boxes and try and find the better egg connectors, recheck the electric connections, and I will try and keep him up again.Maybe this time I will bring my mare up. He thinks she is his foster mom anyway. She is lower on herd order. I was thinking #1 horse would keep him calmer. But I will try her instead. Unless it is the donkey, who he plays with.....Or heck , maybe he doesn't want anyone to leave without him.
The vet did say , it would heal faster if his movement was limited , but if left out, it would just take longer....
His swelling had gone done alot yesterday, but after being stalled it was more swollen this morning. So I wonder if the movement of being out helped the endema , and the stalling made it return? This is speculation .
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