brucea
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A lesson for BruceLesson learned - I need to really pay attention when forking in hay for the lads from a new bale. 
Polly just didn't look right when I got to the field at 7am this morning and on investigation I found long strands of the white bale webbing well and trully jammed between his top teeth and onto his molars - tangled with some hay -he couldn't get it out of his mouth. It was wrapped round his tongue and caught in the back of his mouth but it hadn't gone tight - just him trying to get it off. 
Thankfully he is trained to allow his tongue and mouth to be handled and I got it out easy enough - but he has bled his gum between two front teeth, nothing that some salty water couldn't clean up, and a massage and carrot to make it feel better.
Thank goodness he hadn't swallowed it - can't imagine it would have done him much good.
It was getting quite dark last night when I forked the hay into the haik and this must have been a torn piece of wrapping at the edge of the bale I just missed. The way the strands are joined means it catches and holds very easily.
Lesson learned, panic over. 
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gossip28
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Glad no harm done. don't beat yourself up, it can happen with natural materials too, Gossip managed to somehow get another hoses' tail-hair wrapped round her tongue, which I didn't discover until the vet walked round the corner, ensuring call-out charge ..naturally!!
Jo.
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brucea
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Wow - tail hair can be immensely tough can't it!
Not so much beating myself up as reeling in shock! You try to make their environment safe and despite your best efforts they find something to damage themselves on - worse than children!!!
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gossip28
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ar, think horses have read the sheep's manual "500 different ways to kill yourself" !
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hobnob
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My mare has had some tail hair experiences too. Once she dragged a 5 bar gate by her tail hair after itching on it as it was propped up against a wall (not on hinges) and also a few years back I could hear her shouting from the house - looked out and she had been sctratching it again on the tap (now filled in and horseproof!!!) and it was completely tangled in it and unable to move !!. Poor girl, she didnt panic just stood there shouting up at the house until I rescued her. Not very BHS !!
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gossip28
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hobnob; your poor girly, its a wonder she went near a gate again after the 1st incident! thank goodness she was sensible about it.
Bruce is right, tails are tough stuff!
Jo
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cptrayes
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I couldn't help laughing that when I read it, the ad on this topic was for toothpaste  I know we are being got at to floss properly Bruce, but I don't think it extends to the horses, does it?
C
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brucea
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Brilliant Caroline - I usually get the one about "how to lose 3lbs a day" !! Kind of depressing really!
I know one slightly eccentric older lady, owner of the most spoiled veteran gelding ion the planet, who does brush her horse's teeth regularly. He loves it. Maybe Colgate are missing a good market 
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hobnob
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Gossip28 - she used to be such a spooky girl anyway but has alot of trust now. Good job realy, her little field mate has a habit of throwing his feed bucket at her whilst she is still eating and she used to find this terrible scary - her mate has now de-sensitized her to it and of course food cures everything !!!
ps - i SOUND A REAL BAD MUM DONT i !!!
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SueH
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| Quote: | | I know one slightly eccentric older lady, owner of the most spoiled veteran gelding ion the planet, who does brush her horse's teeth regularly. He loves it. |
I really did laugh out loud on this - so cool to envision old gelding enjoying having his teeth brushed. Bless 
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