jamiehuggins
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Has anyone had any experience with hip issues with your horse? If so what were the issues and how did you solve them? Was your horse 100% sound after or was there still a smaller issue? Thank you.
Horse hip question.
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Soapweed
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jamiehuggins said:
My best horse, Tom Cat, got stifled when he was eight years old. I took him to the Rushville Veterinary Clinic in Rushville, Nebraska. Dr. Steve Willnerd operated, and took out a piece of tendon. After doing it to the injured side, he also took the precaution to do the same thing on the other side. He said that if one side has problems, often the other side can meet a similar fate. After a month of rest and recuperation, I started using the horse again. He was a little stiff at first, but soon got back to his original abilities. Now Tom Cat is still going strong as a kid horse, and he will turn 30 years old this spring. I have considered the $200 cost of the operation some of the best money I ever spent.
Bruce
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Parden my ignorance Soapweed, but what is "stifled" exactly? I've heard the word used alot but have never dealt with it. From your post I assume it has to do with a tendon, is it just above the hock or higher in the hip?
Alway's crippling or sometime's just "sore in the morning"?
I had a nice 4yr old gelding once that started haveing hock trouble, he would put weight on it and it would almost "hold" then pop with an audible click and a visible nuckle (almost like when someone crack's their finger joint, but in reverse?) An ol'time friend of mine looked at him and said he'd had the same problem alway's gelding's and alway's between 4-6 yr's of age and it alway's went away with rest. I gave him the summer off.....and sold him to a neighbor.....hehehe....just kidding, 10 yr's later he's still going strong.
Alway's crippling or sometime's just "sore in the morning"?
I had a nice 4yr old gelding once that started haveing hock trouble, he would put weight on it and it would almost "hold" then pop with an audible click and a visible nuckle (almost like when someone crack's their finger joint, but in reverse?) An ol'time friend of mine looked at him and said he'd had the same problem alway's gelding's and alway's between 4-6 yr's of age and it alway's went away with rest. I gave him the summer off.....and sold him to a neighbor.....hehehe....just kidding, 10 yr's later he's still going strong.
Soapweed
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Bruce said:
This explains a stifle much better than I could.
http://www.horses-and-horse-information.com/articles/0197stifl.shtml
Bruce
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Soapweed said:
Thank's I'm going to mark that site as a favorite, look's like lot's of info. there!!
Only trouble is most readily available info seem's to come from the over educated and under experienced! Holy smoke's I wasn't look'n to buid a horse from scratch! I am just looking for the termanology a good horseman would use
That does clear up a couple of question's I've had from listening to bad source's (shoot they could'nt even count there own.....elbow's, so I tried not to learn anything, but you know a little mistruth can go along way's when you don't know any better : )Thank's again!
jamiehuggins
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Its a hip problem that I am having, with the socked. But thanks for your replies though.
