I've had injuries in both. But then my vet has come to the conclusion I'm cursed. Good for him though. New car, renovated their house, new property, new boat, working on the kids future education...

Our worst injuries have definently occured in the paddock. Couple of hard to prevent accidents though. Falling through an old rabbit warren, tripping and broken neck, jumping out of paddock onto road and getting stuck in cattle grid trying to get back onto property, unsound oldie in the geriatric paddock going over/through fence, and the odd cut/less major injury. Had a broken tooth, horse picked a rocky place to roll, as he buckled his knees to drop down his face connected with a particulary large rock. Ouch! Oh, and another horse came in one time and was brushing his tail out and found the bottom of his tail had been broken. Not sure how/when, hadn't noticed it when it occured obviously. Poor fellow.

Stable/yards (yards big enough for the horses to run around in), concussion, some cuts, broken splint bone, puncture wound (from what, I've not a clue. Post and rail yard, looked top to bottom, could not find anything sticking out anywhere or any sign of hair/blood???), other minor injuries. Came up one time and Dom's white sock was black out with dried blood, minor heart attack, looked him all over - found a teeny tiny scrape halfway up his leg and that was it. Washed off, sprayed it, had scabbed over by next morning and healed in a couple of days. But so. much. blood. Couldn't believe it. Would have thought he'd cut his leg half off the amount of blood that was splashed over both is back legs. I think I spent 10 minutes after finding the scratch looking for the injury that the blood came from. And he's just standing there "Wassup mum? Why so worried?".

My horses don't have much sense of self preservation I've come to the conclusion. When we sent Lincoln away for some training, we told the lady not to panic when he hurt himself, he does it all the time, just call the vet then us. She reassured us that she would look after him like one of her own, best of care, great facilities etc etc. I think he just broke the 7 day barrier when he ripped the back of his heel off. Poor lady couldn't believe we were so calm about the whole thing "It's okay, it's Lincoln, we're used to this sort of thing!".

The lady where we paddock agist our horses - after a number of injuries (including the fatality) followed each other pretty closely, she almost pulled the pin and stopped agisting. She honestly said she didn't know if she could deal with other peoples (read: me) horses hurting themselves on her place. In all the years that she's done the agistment I think only one horse not owned by me has seriously hurt itself (in the round yard). That, or she was just going to ban us from keeping our horses with her.


I've had horses hurt themselves in stalls, yards and paddocks from a few acres up to 5,000 acres. I've come to the conclusion I need to buy smarter horses.

My preference for horses is to keep them in paddocks and or as much turnout as possible


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WhoKilledBambi wrote:
no kicking the nerds. We need them for sciencing.