The vet has finally said Generoso can start to go out again as from next Friday (27th/04/07) which i am so pleased about as he really has had enough of being stuck in and watching his friends go out.
To say that he is prone to injury is like saying the pope is a catholic.
When i first got him his back was messed up , muscles all bruised and tense and he has some scarred muscle which will never go from the tree of a saddle hence me being determined to get a treeless saddle. At first i was told six months before we could ride him but he did so well with his treatment that we were given the go ahead to start him at the end of March , we did some long reining in preparation and he was coming along nicely untill three days before the big day he cut his hind leg on the way in from the field just above his coronet band
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He had a cast fitted and has been on box rest for nearly five weeks now. He has managed to barge out of his stable when changing his water and proceeded to gallop out of the yard and up and down a road for twenty minutes
before we were able to catch him. No apparent harm done and no lameness. After a week of box rest he was trying to jump over his stable door so we fitted anti weave bars up. Got him a mirror which at first really worked he loved his new friend and went over to kiss it when his friends went out.
The last couple of weeks have really got to him, he has a treat ball which he kicks to bits, we have hung swedes on string , spent loads of time with him, pulled him out and washed the front of him, groomed him but nothing consoles him when he is left alone.
The vet has given me some ACP which he has every morning which has stopped him charging around in his stable, he had been kicking the mirror and stable walls and bucking and rearing too when his friends went out in the mornings.
So now i am getting in a panic about turning him out.
If he goes out in the field with the others as before i can see him getting kicked as he tends to ram up their backsides to get them to come for a run with him. His best friend has just had road studs fitted which are like big nails which are permanently in.
Because the spring grass has really grown and he hasn't experienced this before i am obviously going to have to limit his time out so does an hour at first seem ok?.
Going for a bit of overkill i have bought him some turnout boots which are meant to prevent damage to the legs when they are turned out but the vet said he thinks his legs will get too sweaty so he has suggested i don't put them on.
Should i keep him on the ACP for the day he is first turned out and put him out for an hour in the evening , i am expecting him to explode.
Then when i bring him in hose his legs down for about ten minutes.?
I have all sorts of visions of him blowing a tendon, getting kicked and breaking one of his stick thin legs, falling over and pulling all sorts of muscles.
he has only been allowed to do about four strides away from his stable to pick at the grass up until now.
after the weekend has passed i am going to try walking him up and down the yard in his bridle now he has this "ACP" stuff taking the edge off his hyperness just to start his legs off.
Any advice would be gratefully received.
