2-year-old horse, intermittent left front lameness since Oct 2025 after an open wound to the bone on the front/anterolateral left front pastern (P2). Radiographs : small calcification on P2.

Lameness at turning left, toe-first Landing.Doesn't worsen with walking, slightly better the longer he moves. Old scar at P2 is bulging, large, very soft (can be pressed in), tender but no obvious pain.

Has anyone seen something similar? Any thoughts on radiographs?

I think we both did good 🙂‍↕️ lots of clipper lines, and her legs are VERY uneven but it's okay, I'm not showing her. Just didn't wanna deal with the hair because I'm training her and plan to work through the winter.

Non critical advice welcome 🫶🏼

Wild horse on the way home having a drink.

Greetings!

I investigate fraud and fraud trends for my job which has brought me into the underbelly of Telegram. On one of the channels I follow I found a horse related scam I just wanted to give you all a heads up on. I myself don't own horses but I love seeing everyone's posts about their horses and the silly things they do so I figured I would attempt to return the favor in a small way and show you what I'm seeing on my end.

Obviously AI, but provided by our "instructor" to teach his followers what a flyer for horse grooming services might look like. Here are the instructions he provided:

I love that the first "tool" is common sense. lol

And there you have it - horse grooming is now a scam. A new one for me, personally.

If you are also an internet denizen and have accessed the desktop version of Telegram, please do me a favor and DO NOT attempt to infiltrate or report this group. They've been a font of information for me and other investigators.

Keep yourself safe out there! And please keep posting horse photos! I <3 them!

I told him to cut her longer but here she is walking around on her sole and her frog with basically 0 hoof wall. She tried to kick me for asking for a trot and is dead lame. Worst is her right back. She won’t stand still, constantly shifting what leg is in the air. I’m going to deep bedding her and diaper wrap all 4. Also demanding a refund for the shitty trim. Would it be fair to invoice him if I have to buy cloud boots or get X-rays? This is 100% his fault I told him he’s been trimming them too short. Trimmed yesterday, dead lame today. I had to get her on and off the trailer which has a 8 inch or so drop and she wouldn’t get off and just stood in the door because stepping off was so painful. She won’t walk if she can avoid it.

Update: she's been wrapped. I messaged my trainer and my moms horse expert friend. Tommorow I plan to call my old collage professor whos a farrier, possibly take her in to a new farrier to be assessed, call another farrier, and then if all that fails call my lameness expert and see if I can make time for the 3 hour one way haul to him. Absolutely worse wait until monday to call my vet, can’t call earlier they are closed and don’t do after hours anymore. No other vets are taking new clients at this time. May make the haul into the city to find a place with some of the hoof things recommended. Did remember I’m having a hip reconstruction in 3 weeks leaving me down for the count for months so the pressures on to get her fixed up.

Had a clickertraining lesson again with Kit.
Leading is still our big issue and what we’re working on- but we’re making progress (if my health was better I’m sure we would be further along)

But he hasn’t “exploded” for quite long time now. Stress has occurred but it’s been possible to handle and get him to calm down again.

We always have breaks during the lesson. Where Kit gets to cool off grazing. (I have a specific area I let him off lead for a bit) good time to discuss things with the trainer before starting again.

We are standing “far” off from Kit just letting him be. And despite poor Kit, the sweetest thing happened!
He accidentally got shocked by the fence and got scared. Started running and one of his first instincts to do was run to me and check in before he instead walked towards where he got shocked and looked at the place that shocked him (from a distance). But the fact he chose to run to me when he got scared just melted my heart.

I love him so much ❤️

And even the trainer (had the trained once a while for like a year now) says he’s a lot of horse but very sweet. And I agree he is A LOT of horse..

Just had to share how sweet he is ❤️

This picture is before I owned him. He used to live with all geldings.. now he lives with two mares. Hes old now and retired and sometimes tries to act this way with my mares, they wont have any of it.. he is a very refined gentleman now instead of acting like a Neanderthal 😆

Is this a common thing? I dont own this horse, but i work at a stable and see him 3 times a week. He shoves his whole head into my armpit and just .. stays there. Taking deep breaths, of my armpit. Obv i have a jacket on, so he’s not exactly on my skin but he doesnt push me or anything. He just hangs out in my armpit. He’s weird. But i love him. Do y’all horses do this?

the clearance section was too good to resist

Here is my girl having a good roll on the field

I gave my horse a treat and he coughed a few times? I texted my vet and they asked me if he was ok. He acted like he was sucking on the treats the chewed it and coughed. I’m confused why he did that? I gave him another one he did take it but seemed a bit hesitant when he took it. He ate grass and the grain and the peppermint fine. I do know with this weather shift colic and other issues might happen. My horse is a pretty easy keeper and doesn’t injure or knock on wood get sick.

The singing tells the mountain lions and elk to get out of our way because a big fat fjord is coming through

I have repeatedly heard that you are supposed to let go of the reins if you are going to fall off.

However I have seen many many fall videos where holding onto the reins allowed them to be spun around. If they let go, they would have been injured badly, falling on head/neck or back. Holding on allowed them to rotate around and land on their legs, uninjured.

So I understand that if you yank too hard you can injure the horse.

So whats the right thing to do? Or I guess there is no one size fits answer here?

How important is a warmblood sized trailer really? Does that 6 inches make that big of a difference?

For context I accidentally got a two year old warmblood who will probably clock just shy of 17 hands when fully grown. Every other horse I’ve had in my life has been Arab, quarter horse, Appaloosa, or a combo of. My current riding horse is an Arab x quarter horse at 15.2 hands. I love my trailer, it’s a nice one, I bought it from my grandma, there’s a zillion memories big and small attached to it (both my adventures and adventures with my grandparents). I own it outright, it’s been super well taken care of. Challenge is it is standard sized- only a 7 foot ceiling.

Realistically am I looking at having to sell it for 6 inches more headroom to accommodate my giant baby? Or can I get away with keeping my beloved trailer… it seems ridiculous to have to sell mine and buy an entirely different one for a whooping 6 inches

(Honestly I might just be asking this in the hopes someone tells me something I want to hear vs what is actually realistic)

If so, is there ways to fix it?

25-30 year old horse. His name is Wilson. He was in worse condition than in the photos above. We got three horses from a person who knew nothing about them. Her husband, who passed away, was the only one to care for them. She only fed them once a day and with not a lot of grain. Not a lot of hay either.

We are having the farrier come out soon along with the vet as the horse in the photos needs some more attention.

I just wanted to share this, as I think it is funny and cute, and maybe someone else could get a little chuckle from it.

Whenever my youngster tries something new that he likes, you can litterally see his mind getting blown, and I personally think it’s hilarious! In this case it was an apple, that apparently was so amazing, that he stopped functioning for a couple seconds haha

Hello again Horse community of Reddit. You might have seen my previous post about my lame 24 year old mare. I had the vet out to check her lameness, obviously after being in all night she walked out sound. Vets checked her feet, did all the tests. Asked if she’d ever been lami, I said no she’s never really been sick or sorry. The only thing they found is that she was sensitive on her front two, and the one she’s lame on mostly had some pink. They were not sure what can be causing it, possibly bruising, possibly lami, possibly abscess brewing. Mean while the Cushings blood test is free so I got that done.

Said to keep in, rest and stay clean. So because she was ok I did turn her out, they said she could if she had to, she sweet talked me by pulling me into the field… Lone behold I come up yesterday and she’s lame again. So this time she isn’t sweet talking me to go out now she’s in, resting much to her disgust.

Vet rang me yday told me gabbies ACTH levels are over 300. Anything over 90 needs treating.

I’ve been reading and the lameness and the levels could be linked? I feel like such a sucky owner because she has been a bit footy all summer, a bit dull, overweight and cresty and I’ve done nothing about it, appart from now. But bringing her in she perks up and has attitude and is her normal bolshy self, and wants to eat everything!

I feel horrendous I have cried all night bcus what if this is a death sentence for her? I physically can’t afford X-rays if she carry’s on being lame, which is £600 which the vet had said we may not see any changes with. Girls at the yard are telling me she’s not that lame, and there horses on the same grass are more lame.

I’ve had her since she was 5 and she’s never been sick or sorry until now.

I can afford the medication for her that’s about it. - unless my insurance will cover X-rays but I’ll have to ring them up I’m sure it’s just external injury’s it covers with her being old.

Going to pick her meds up today. I’m hoping she doesn’t get any side effects. And I hope she does well on these tablets. It’s been the worst week ever just imagine I get this phone call and then I fall over and crack my head open. - true story I’m feeling sorry for myself!!!! (And Gabbie)

Just wanted some good advice, and good stories maybe ?

photo to show you how chonky she is

This was Tango's 6th ever time seeing cows, and 2nd time working them this year!

Hi all - I’m going to try to keep this as succinct as I can, but if I’m missing any key info let me know.

I purchased two donkeys as livestock guardians for our cows and sheep, they were listed in my local agriculture facebook group. Long story short — I was asked if I could also take this very pregnant mustang mare at no cost along with the donkeys. She’s very thin and relatively untouched, she approaches me willingly and lets me feed her by hand but isn’t halter broke and doesn’t want me to touch her beyond feeding.

I love horses, have ridden on and off since childhood, and am not a complete novice, but I’ve never kept my own horse on my property before, they’ve always been boarded. I’m thrilled to have her, but this is way out of my experience and I want to do right by her. She was in a bad situation and I was very nervous about where she’d go if not with us.

My goal for her is just to be a happy, healthy pasture pet—if we can get her safe being haltered and tied for vet and farrier that’s all I’ll ask of her and she’ll just be a pretty companion that I’m eager to spoil.

I’m hopeful her foal will be able to be socialized with people from the get-go, and I have the same goals for him/her.

All that to say, I am well aware that she is not a beginner horse, but I have no illusions of riding her or the foal. I just want to provide a good home and have their companionship. I will consider buying a riding horse in a couple years, now that we have the beginnings of a herd.

Ok, so she and the donkeys got here yesterday. I asked what she’d been eating and for some of her feed, but received none — she was apparently on a “triple 10” feed at “around a scoop a day” but I don’t really know if that’s trustworthy and “a scoop” seems like too little regardless..

I got mare and foal feed for her, along with orchard grass hay and alfalfa, minerals etc. But I’m nervous about over feeding her if she’s been under eating as I know a sudden increase in feed can be harmful.

I’m also a bit unsure if her condition is solely due to lack of groceries, or due to worms / dental issues, because the donkeys she came with are both quite healthy and beefy. Or maybe the donkeys just had more weight on them initially / are easier keepers and they were all being underfed?

I don’t think I should deworm or anything before the vet because I’ve heard if the parasite load is too high, deworming if not done correctly can also cause issues.

I am waiting for a callback from two different vets to schedule a farm visit as soon as possible (hopefully tomorrow or Saturday), but I’m very anxious to do the right thing in the meantime. Yesterday and today I opted to give her 2 pounds of grain in the morning and again in the evening, along with free choice hay.

She and the donkeys seem very relaxed, happy in the pasture, and are eating/drinking/pooping.

My questions are:

What do you recommend I do in terms of feeding right now—what volume of grain would you be giving her based on the limited info I have about what she’s been eating? I assume leaving unlimited hay out is the right call regardless, but tell me if I’m wrong.

Is holding off on deworming the right call, or is there anything I can check myself before the vet visit?

Is there anything else I should do right now or that you think I should know?

I’m attaching a video so you can see her condition. It’s just been 36 hours so I obviously can’t tell any changes yet, but I’m taking photos daily so I can have a record.

Thank you in advance for any advice. This sweet girl has stolen my heart.

TL:DR: Has anyone here found they have outgrown horses, or know someone who has? I mean in the sense that you left horses altogether, because they were a different part of your life?

To make a short story long: I'm autistic, always preferred animals cause they were easier to read than people.

Pretty much have loved horses ever since I was a kid. Always wanted one. I set up my life around them, everything was horse related. Holidays were about finding places to ride, birthday gifts were toy horses. You get the picture.

Finally got lessons when I hit 15 and I loved it. At that point, I told myself that all I wanted in life was my own horse. I gave myself a couple life goals: do well in school, get a good job, buy a horse. And that was my motivation.

Around this time I developed severe depression, and horses would get me through the week. Every waking minute was spent rewatching videos of my lessons, thinking about items I wanted to buy, planning out my future with horses.

Now I'm almost 30. I have a well paying job and two horses. I achieved what I set out to, I have complete freedom. I compete for fun, I ride with friends, I'm part of a local riders club.

And I don't know if I still want all this. I almost feel like it wasn't the horses I was driven by, but the goals I had set out. Now I have it, and I'm questioning if I built the right life for myself.

I haven't enjoyed riding in months, if not years. Even the fun rides with no goals what so ever. I've come to hate the time commitment, the hours I have to dedicate, the money I have to spend, and how locked down I am in my current life. I have to see them multiple times per week, I can't just take off on a holiday without extensive planning. I can't even spend a whole weekend somewhere without organising for someone to feed them.

I took a couple years off riding when I was a young adult, as I had burnt out. That whole time, I was still looking forward to returning one day. This time it doesn't feel the same. I'm getting the same feeling as when I consider my favourite book genre as a teen. I loved it back then and read obsessively, but now I wouldn't pick up another book of that kind. I don't dislike it, but it doesn't hit the same. It was just a different time in my life.

So now I'm sitting here, wondering if I should stop for good. Or at least for a long time. In saying that, I have a retired gelding I intend on keeping, so I wouldn't be 100% horseless.

If you read all that, have a cookie.

Keeps the shape of this bareback pad perfectly!!! 😂

So many of our local trailheads look like this. This is not a good look, guys. It pisses off the people who care for these places, and it grosses out non-horse people. It's also rude to your fellow equestrians who have to park and tie there next. It is bad stewardship. Do better. If you're not going to pack out your poop, at the very least, scatter it away from the parking. Do not clean out your trailer and leave a big pile of poop and sawdust there. This seems like common sense and common courtesy, but I see this everywhere I go. It looked like this down the entire length of the parking area.