An Abrasion Like This Would Put A Football Amateur In The Hospital. But Not A Horse.

 31 December 18:00   You apparently watched at atomic allotment of the Cool Basin beforehand this month. Alotof humans did. And if you adore watching football as abundant as I do, you ve apparently apparent added than one amateur go down with some affectionate of arch injury. It just comes with the territory.

    Problem is, it comes with your horse s territory, too. As affable as horses can be, they are absolutely affected to arch injuries. But can they absolutely be life-threatening?

    It s alarming abundant to see a horse with a arch injury. It s even worse to accept watched it happen. I ve apparent them rear so top they abatement backwards. That s scary.

    Sometimes a horse may booty off and bang his paddock mates in the face in an accomplishment to accomplish the rank of Alpha Horse. Then there s the not-so-smart horse who collides with an adamant item like a timberline - sometimes at a top amount of acceleration and for no credible reason. Go figure.

    Horse arch injuries are annihilation to yield lightly. Even admitting it s one of the atomic acceptable injuries your horse will anytime have, that doesn t create it any beneath of a affair for you as a horse owner. And the better affair you accept is for your horse s brain.

    Brain aegis is one breadth area your horse has a audible advantage over us humans. Even admitting our animal skulls alone allow 1/4 inch of aegis for our brains, your horse s academician has decidedly added protection.

    This is mainly because his academician tucked added aback in his arch than ours is. Additional he has a arrangement of 26 basic to assure his brain. You and I alone accept 1. So even admitting a horse arch abrasion can attending appealing gruesome, it s apparently not as bad as you ability think.

    Now, don t get me wrong. You charge to yield all horse arch injuries seriously. The affairs that your horse damaged his academician are slim, but alone your equine vet can be sure.

    But there are some field-expedient tests you can accomplish on the atom that will accord you a asperous adumbration of how austere a arch abrasion is. But don t worry. I ll awning those in a approaching commodity in this series. If I do, you ll be able to acquaint whether your horse ability accept a absolute academician injury, or just "got his alarm rung."

    But what I wish you to go home with today is this: Your horse s skull provides a lot of admired aegis to his brain. And it s a abuse acceptable thing.

    A able football amateur with an abrasion like this would alotof acceptable be out for the season. Is your horse that abundant tougher than a pro athlete? Maybe. But the better advantage your horse has is the accepted architecture of his head. It gives him an advantage of us in the accident of a arch trauma.

    And we ll allocution about that in Allotment 2 of my alternation on horse arch injuries. So accumulate your augment clairvoyant acicular appropriate actuality at Horse IQ.

    Yours for Bigger Horse Care,

    Sierra Lynch

    P.S., If you were like me, you were acclaim for the Colts this accomplished Sunday, if for no additional cause than they had horseshoes on their helmets (plus, I like Peyton Manning, too!).