Re: Need Vet Advice-Help?

["Helga Loncosky" <hblmh@ptd.net>]

I would also have his mouth and teeth checked, have seen several horses with
this behavior that really had some things going wrong in their mouth and
jaw, that wasn't readily seen by a vet. I'd get a good equine dentist to
evaluate him.


Helga Loncosky
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry & Susan Milam <milamj@agtelco.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Friday, May 07, 1999 8:48 PM
Subject: RC: Need Vet Advice-Help?


>> Maybe you could help me with a problem I'm having with my 5 yo gelding.
He's a very forward horse, hard to get him to stand after I mount him and
always ready to go off at the trot immediately. I've ridden trails with him
for the past 2 years and done a few LD rides with him. Now for the first
time, we are training alone on roads next to open fields of crops and he's
started spooking by planting his r front foot and turning 90 degrees while
we're at a good paced trot which makes me go right over his r shoulder onto
my butt!!!! ouch. He always seems to spook with his R fore..never on his L.
When we ride with other horses he's never done this. Maybe this is a
learning curve thing and a trust issue because for the first time he doesn't
have a buddy to focus and depend on? He's got all the responsibility for
bugger lookout now.
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>Another thing he does is sling his head to the L occasionally for no
>apparent reason and it doesn't matter if he's in the barn or cantering.
>He'll just all of a sudden sling his head to the L about 60 degrees or
>so.
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>Someone has suggested he might have a visual problem. Is there any way I
>can check him for a field defecit or a spot blindness?
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>Thanks again,
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>Susan
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>A friend suggested
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