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arabianrio
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 Posted - 17 Jun 2011 : 12:19:08 PM
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So glad your lovely boy is better today
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pinkvboots
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Posted - 17 Jun 2011 : 3:45:50 PM
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Don't get down Lyndi things happen glad he is better today he will be fine. |
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Foxtrot
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Posted - 18 Jun 2011 : 07:24:57 AM
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Accidents happen, hope your boy is feeling better this morning?! My dominant mare jumped a 5 foot post/rail, climbed through a hedge and ditch once to get in with the local liveries on 20 acres of winter grazing, she caused merry hell but luckily no body was seriously injured. But she obviously needed to get out there and sort somebody out!! Fortunately the rest of our gang just stood and watched through the hedge!
The metacam should make him feel alot better, and if you have to give it orally its raspberry flavoured so quite palatable! Take care x |
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lisa rachel
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Posted - 18 Jun 2011 : 6:09:29 PM
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| Originally posted by Jamana
Just goes to show that stallions can be unpredictable and act 'out of character'............
I don't see that this behaviour could be considered 'out of character' for any stallion, and certainly not unpredictable, if he gets a chance to get out of his stable and go after the girls of course he will!
It was just unlucky for Lynda that he broke the bolt of his stable.
What has been discussed before, as far as I am aware, is the behaviour of Arab stallions towards people and how some of us feel that many of them (properly trained) are particularly gentlemanly and pleasanter to be with than stallions of some other breeds... I don't think Crimbo's behaviour reflects badly on him at all... he is after all an entire male!
One more point, regarding bute, please don't give it if any cuts are near a joint , bursa or tendon sheath, it could mask the lameness induced by infection of that structure for a while, delaying treatment and worsening the prognosis, better to get them checked out first.
Cheers
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LYNDILOU
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Posted - 18 Jun 2011 : 8:25:31 PM
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Thanks Lisa , yes for all the wild instinct displayed by Crimbo that day, he still would not have hurt a human being intentionally and in the end he let me walk up to him and put his head collar on then walked back sedately to his stable  ( secretly I think he had had enough of being a wild stallion for one day) |
   
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Patriot
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Posted - 19 Jun 2011 : 03:24:21 AM
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LOL wow you had a busy day! So did Crimbo! Im happy no one - human or horse- was inured and all ended well!!
"secretly I think he had had enough of being a wild stallion for one day)"
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Jamana
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Posted - 19 Jun 2011 : 12:16:49 PM
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| Lisa Rachel and Lyndilou,reading your responses I can't help but think both of you have missed my point,but as the old saying goes 'there is none so blind as those who will not see'.The stallions behaviour that day is just what anyone who understands stallions could expect,it does not in anyway reflect badly on him it just shows that when it comes down to it his instinct will take over regardless of how much 'trust' you have in him. |
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LYNDILOU
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Posted - 19 Jun 2011 : 4:05:48 PM
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Thanks Jamana I think you are/were stating the obvious though, and we havent missed the point, we already know this ( I still trust him not to hurt people though) |
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lisa rachel
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Posted - 19 Jun 2011 : 4:14:47 PM
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| Originally posted by Jamana
Lisa Rachel and Lyndilou,reading your responses I can't help but think both of you have missed my point,but as the old saying goes 'there is none so blind as those who will not see'.The stallions behaviour that day is just what anyone who understands stallions could expect,it does not in anyway reflect badly on him it just shows that when it comes down to it his instinct will take over regardless of how much 'trust' you have in him.
Oh Jamama! please read my post, I made EXACTLY that point, his behaviour was not 'out of character' or 'unpredictable'.... these are YOUR words which I quoted, his behaviour was totally in character and normal for a stallion. I just felt that you were implying that this PROVED stallions cannot be trusted. Well...they can be trusted to behave like stallions, of course. However Lynda's point has always been that she trusts her stallion with people. I don't see why this episode should change that. This is why I said it did not reflect badly on him... we are talking about two entirely different things. I agree with you and always have that stallions can be dangerous and need competent handling but it will take more than repeated posts from you for me to change my view, based on long experience, that Arab stallions, in particular, when they respect and trust their owners can be very easy and pleasant horses to handle. I remember years ago reading an obituary for a stallion ... I think that it was Cranleigh Red Shadow (?)it said (paraphrasing)...'He never let anyone forget that he was a stallion, but he never forgot that he was a gentleman' Well put I think the two are not mutually exclusive!!! |
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barbara.gregory
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Posted - 19 Jun 2011 : 4:39:26 PM
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'He never let anyone forget that he was a stallion, but he never forgot that he was a gentleman'
Lovely quote and so true. Someeone who had come with his tractor to do some work for me had to go through the stallion's field and I had always told the farmer that he needed to let me know the night before that he was coming and I would keep the stallion in. He sent one of the farm hands, didn't tell me he would be coming and didn't tell the bloke that there was a stallion loose in the field. Farmhand openes the gate, climbed back in his tractor only to see 16 hands of Arab stallion streak out and across the raod into the field with the mares. It was bedlam. I was rung at work but there was no way I could have gone into the middle of the melee of flying hooves even if I had been there. By the time I got home a few hours later all was peace and tranquility with everyone grazing happily side by side and only a few cuts and scrapes fortunately.
In that situation no stallion is a gentleman and anyone that gets in the way risks being killed. however, once things have settled the stallion can be caught and brought in although as the mares were "boss" he had to wait his turn at the gate!
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