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Originally Posted by skipidybebop
Hi
And welcome to the forums.
If you move yourself around to the rear of the animal and look more or less on the underside below the abdomen, you should notice a large sack containing two sphere shaped objects.
Using a regular every day ciggarette lighter, gently start warming the sack from underneath.
All being well, the horse should be fully standing in around 3-5 seconds.
Glad we have helped.
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I can't believe anyone would be naive enough to even post something like this. Therefore, I am removing the message from the forum. This one was uncalled for garbage and I must caution the poster to refrain from things like this in the future.
Speedster,
I have come across that same probem and it is very difficult to get a horse (or pony for that matter) up once it is down.
What I have found works a good bit of the time is that when we had one down, is that you
make sure you have a good leather or composite halter on the horse (strong enough to pull on). Without that, you don't stand a chance IMHO.
Then try to get the head straight and have the horse looking straight toward you. Place a hand
on each side of the halter (near the nose point),
Pull very hard while encouraging the horse
with the normal commands you use when working with the horse to go or move forward. The verbal encouragement does work in getting the horse to try.
At the same time, it helps tremendously to
have someone on the behind side pushing forward, especially as the horse tries to get on it's feet. Between the pulling, your encouraging commands, and someone pushing forward on the rear quarters, the horse will try to get up. Keep pulling and hope they can do it, because if they don't, then after a period of time, the horse will possibly expire if you can't get them up.
Another point, if it gets part way up, then
keep pulling forward to get the horse to take a few steps, or it will tend to go back down if you can't get it to move forward on it's feet.
At least, that has worked with this ole country boy.