What is the dumbest thing you have ever done on or around horses...?

I had to help a vet treat a mare that had prolapsed, the afterbirth was hanging out of her but the dead 9 month old fetus was still retained inside of her. It was a lovely state this lovely gentleman had left this poor mare in when he called me to come get her or he was going to just shoot her. I got my vet out and he doped the mare up really good.

We then tied her up to prevent her from falling over and he went in and pulled the dead foal out. The smell was so horrid both of us were vomiting before it even hit the ground. I then loaded her on a trailer and took her to the barn I board at so I could have her treated properly.

She had an infection in her uterus (big surprise) and my vet had to come out and flush it several times. Big IV bag full of an iodine mixture, we had to empty via a hose into her uterus. Then we had to "hold her shut" for a brief period, then empty it all out.

The horns of her uterus had to be cleaned out by hand. Won't go into detail on that part. Horse pulled through okay after some pretty intensive care and lots of antibiotics.

When I broached the subject of what to do with her after she healed, the owner told me to keep her since she didn't put a live foal on the ground. Disgusted and not wanting to deal with him anymore I just decided to pay the vet bill and be done with him. Worked out though because she was very nice well-bred mare and I ended up really liking her.

The Mustang mare with a huge, maggot-infested sore on her neck was a close second to the first mare. The owner of that horse refused to let me bring a vet on the property to treat her so I had to restrain her and pick the maggots out myself. I wound up with that horse too and she turned out to be wonderful.

Amazingly enough her neck didn't even scar after the wound healed. I sold her to my best friend who still has her, and she's been nothing but a real trooper. Great horse all around.

I worked for a vet for a few years. One time I went on a farm call with my boss for a mare that the baby had died in her before giving birth. The owners had left the baby in the mare for a week without calling the vet.

I don't know how the mare didn't die from sepsis, the baby was rotten inside her. We had to pull the dead baby out bone by bone, the baby was so rotten the tissue wouldn't hold the skeleton together any more. It was nasty!

Two hours later, after being shoulder deep in the mare, we had the entire baby pulled out and stuffed into 5 gallon buckets. I went home and couldn't stop puking and couldn't eat anything for the next couple days. LQ: Baby = under 2 kid = 2-5 teen = 5-10 adult = 10-18 senior = over 18.

But that's just my opinion, I'm sure for other people it would be different.

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