Horse vs Gate

I'm seriously hating those big brown horses in Quzqo's pasture! I was bringing him in through the gate. the gate opens IN to the pasture...two of the Big Browns crowd behind him, he panics and lunges through the gate, which wasn't quite open all the way...he gets JAMMED between the
gate and (tah dah) the electric fence!

Horse is wedged and freaking out, he finally rears back, lunges to his right, rears up and spins away, dragging the lead rope with him. I beat the other horses out of the way (ha, they didn't know I was there), Quzqo goes maybe 150 feet before stopping.

And he's holding his left hind up and doesn't want to put weight on it.

SHIT!

No blood, no bones sticking out of the skin, I'm crying and cursing, I do catch him, and he eventually puts his leg down and gingerly puts some weight on it. I gave him his apple, which he ate, but he's shivering.

I get him to take a step, no problem, he's limping a little and when he stops, he raises the leg up. We slowly make our way back to the gate. Of course he wants NOTHING to do with that.

I managed to shoo the damned Big Browns away from the gate, Quz wants out, but he doesn't want to go through the gate. I managed to get the gate waaaay open enough that he scooted through, and I got it shut just as one of the Big Browns was starting to lunge through it. THAT bastard deserves to get fence-zapped!

One wire of the fence is snapped.

Got Quzqo inside, he was walking carefully, but no noticible limp. When I tied him up, he raised his hind leg and didn't want to put weight on it. I felt a lump on his stifle, don't know if that was just a contracting muscle or a swelling or what...nothing unusual further down, nothing broken or out of place. He got upset when I ran my hand down his leg and raised the leg further up and out and started shivering, poor boy.

About that time Bob was doing the grain, so I told him what happened (telling myself to NOT CRY DAMMIT! and I didn't), so he came and checked Quzqo over...Quz was NOT thrilled, he doesn't like Bob one bit. He managed a quick check of the leg before the horse swung his whole body away, and he was putting his weight on the leg, no problem bending it. so Bob figures he might have gotten burnt by the fence, and he'd keep an eye on him.

I sent Quzqo to his stall with some bute and applesauce mixed in his grain...he was a jumping, twitching MESS, just leading him down the aisle he was spooking and shying and just near hysterics...can't blame him one bit!

Poor baby. I don't go out there for a day, and when I do show up, I throw him into the electric fence!

Payback's a bitch, horse, ha ha!

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UPDATE

One day later, there's no limp, no swelling, no tenderness! Thank God!

Those damned Big Browns (there's 4 of them, though one's a sorrel) were blocking the gate again, so this time I took my driving whip out with me and chased those assholes away. Quz got all upset because I was waving a whip around, but he WANTED to come to me, poor boy. He should know by now that pasture-whipping is for the OTHER horses, not him (I've had to do it enough times). Chased the Big Browns far enough away and was able to get Himself out the gate (opened it waaaaay wide for him) without incident.

He's so nervous and frightened of everything right now...hope his normal mellow personality takes over the controls again.

LOL, Carlos the Spaniard (yeah, right) was driving the tractor in the indoor arena, and he stopped, came into the tack room, and was pantomiming something at me (remember, he's also deaf as well as "Spanish"), I didn't understand, so he found a pencil and a scrap of paper and wrote "Are U Ride Horse?" and I laughed and shook my head "no", so we went back to piling up sawdust with the tractor in the arena. I'll give him that, he's VERY courteous to the boarders, and if you're riding, and he has to take the tractor out, he closes the gate and the door behind him. Bob just leaves doors/gates wide open to the world, never mind if your horse likes to bolt for those escape routes, ha ha!