He’s not actually leaning on the wall, but chooses to often stand with his butt right up to the wall of his stall. This is newish, in the last few months. Has anyone else had this, of heard of it? Thanks…
Is the bedding higher there? If so, horses will sometimes do this when their toes are too long, causing hock/stifle/hip pain, or they generally just have soreness back there somewhere
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Hocks might be sore. The old guy I have does this when he’s feeling particularly ouchy.
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EPM.
EPM?
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I am also thinking hocks…they sit on the wall to relieve pressure
I think hocks is what I had heard long ago. I will get them checked out. Thanks everyone!
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Yep hocks are what I immediately associate with this behavior. I was familiar with a very nice school horse that leaned incessantly on his stall wall with his back end and that was immediately improved by hock injections. He usually needed injections biannually and it was pretty obvious from this behavior. Today, with the same horse, I’d inject his hocks and also probably add in chiro/acupuncture to help him out even more
If I read OPs post correctly he is standing close to, but not leaning on, the wall. My guess would be that the bedding is elevated near the wall and he is looking to lift his heels to relieve negative palmar angles, suspensories, SI joint, etc. Something feels better when there is less tension down the back of his hind legs.
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