Oh fuck...
So today was supposed to be lovely. I was going to get to ride Sam to the golf course and it was going to be a ton of fun.
Instead, we get to the field and after a bit I notice that Sam's right eye is swollen shut.
He's been kicked in the head.
He was behaving completely normally and the cut is on the rim of his upper eye-lid, we don't know if there is damage to the eye or not. He does open it a bit when something interesting is happening and the eye didn't look abnormal at all but sometimes the lower rim looked red in colour. I've never seen anything like this before so I don't know how bad it is. His eye was also very weepy but that's understandable.
The eye got worse while we were there and by the time we said goodbye looked quite worrying. If it's no better by tomorrow we're calling the vet out.
I'm really really worrying about it because there's a horse at our field with one eye and the reason? She got kicked in the head. :(
He also keeps itching it which 1) hopefully means it isn't too painful and he wasn't sensitive about me running my hand over it but 2) means that he is probably making it worse. Silly boy.
Normal eye
Swollen eye
Zoom (mare who lost her eye due to kick in the head) going for the new horse who arrived today and caused the scuffle which we assume caused Sam's injury
She was being mental haha
Sam got excited because Zoom was running around
Beautiful boy :( he doesn't deserve this
Ben and Dani (her hand in the bottom left)
So yeah basically we'll see what it looks like tomorrow. I'll keep you guys posted.
Instead, we get to the field and after a bit I notice that Sam's right eye is swollen shut.
He's been kicked in the head.
He was behaving completely normally and the cut is on the rim of his upper eye-lid, we don't know if there is damage to the eye or not. He does open it a bit when something interesting is happening and the eye didn't look abnormal at all but sometimes the lower rim looked red in colour. I've never seen anything like this before so I don't know how bad it is. His eye was also very weepy but that's understandable.
The eye got worse while we were there and by the time we said goodbye looked quite worrying. If it's no better by tomorrow we're calling the vet out.
I'm really really worrying about it because there's a horse at our field with one eye and the reason? She got kicked in the head. :(
He also keeps itching it which 1) hopefully means it isn't too painful and he wasn't sensitive about me running my hand over it but 2) means that he is probably making it worse. Silly boy.
Normal eye
Swollen eye
Zoom (mare who lost her eye due to kick in the head) going for the new horse who arrived today and caused the scuffle which we assume caused Sam's injury
She was being mental haha
Sam got excited because Zoom was running around
Beautiful boy :( he doesn't deserve this
Ben and Dani (her hand in the bottom left)
So yeah basically we'll see what it looks like tomorrow. I'll keep you guys posted.