Quilted stuff, then a few flowers, and dogs....

[barnbum]

Thanks, Kay--and this is an important topic no matter where it ends up...

I asked the vet if she thought the hip was a good idea, and she said she has her own policy of staying away from the hip (back legs)for obvious reasons... I am going to look into this for next year. Maybe I'll learn how to do them myself so I can spread them out. I was very thankful everyone could eat without a problem; in other years I've had to raise food and water for 3 days. Thanks for your ideas.

 

[chandab]

Thanks, Kay--and this is an important topic no matter where it ends up...

I asked the vet if she thought the hip was a good idea, and she said she has her own policy of staying away from the hip (back legs)for obvious reasons... I am going to look into this for next year. Maybe I'll learn how to do them myself so I can spread them out. I was very thankful everyone could eat without a problem; in other years I've had to raise food and water for 3 days. Thanks for your ideas.

karla,

I just came across a website yesterday, that also shows where in the pectoral muscles that you can give a shot, and the rump muscle location. When I started in horses, I was shown the hip to give shots, but have since learned that if something goes wrong, its a difficult place to drain should an abcess occur.

Here's that website: http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-1018/ The diagrams are a ways down the page.

 

[barnbum]

Chanda--thank you!!

 

[kaykay]

Thats a great link! That second pic is where we do ours.

The hip is a bad spot as it has that nerve running through there that can cause a lot of damage if you hit it.

I think its Europe where it is actually illegal to give a horse a shot in the neck. Someone can correct me if I am wrong

 

[Watcheye]

Karla you are so talented. Those quilts are AMAZING and I just love your new avatar!

 

[chandab]

I think its Europe where it is actually illegal to give a horse a shot in the neck. Someone can correct me if I am wrong

I just read this somewhere recently, I think another forum, don't know if its true or not. Not sure why it would be illegal to give a shot in the neck.

 

[rimmerpaints]

beautiful quilts. Your very talented

 

[kaykay]

I just read this somewhere recently, I think another forum, don't know if its true or not. Not sure why it would be illegal to give a shot in the neck.

Because it is widely known that shots in the neck tend to have worse reactions. If a horse has a reaction in the neck they have trouble eating and drinking which can lead to colic and dehydration. If a horse has a reaction in the rump they may limp, but they can still eat and drink.

 

[weebiscuit]

barnbum, I am blown away by your quilts! You seem to truly have an artist's eye for arranging your squares. I do watercolors and charcoal drawings, and believe me, you are an artist! I can't imagine all the painstaking time that must go into just arranging the squares, and on top of that you actually have to MAKE the quilt!

Last year someone gave me a hand-crocheted quilt, and I really just can't stand anything made with yard, I really can't! I felt so badly but I simply folded it and put it away in a closet. But I have a quilt that came from an old lady in Appalachia about 50 years ago, and I just love it to pieces!

 

[chandab]

Because it is widely known that shots in the neck tend to have worse reactions. If a horse has a reaction in the neck they have trouble eating and drinking which can lead to colic and dehydration. If a horse has a reaction in the rump they may limp, but they can still eat and drink.

ok, I can kind of see the logic behind it, but illegal?

My riding instructor, chose the neck for shots as she figured horses would want to eat, so would keep trying; whereas might just stand around if their rump was sore.

 

[weebiscuit]

ok, I can kind of see the logic behind it, but illegal?

My riding instructor, chose the neck for shots as she figured horses would want to eat, so would keep trying; whereas might just stand around if their rump was sore.

I use the rump for most of my horses, except two of the minis always get it in the neck because they go berserk over needles in the rump and I've bent too many of them and wasted too much vaccination fluid by their antics. For some reason, they seem to tolerate a neck shot so much better. And my big horses always get them in the neck, too, as I don't want to get kicked by one of them.

In decades and decades of having horses I have not ever had one with a reaction to a shot. If people are this worried about swelling in the injection sites, then I wonder if they just aren't giving them correctly.

 

[barnbum]

Finished these tonight!! I love quilting these runners; that will happen later this week. One is for keeps because sold my first one--but it's in a great home and I can visit.