Well what started as a good weekend finished as crap one. Get a call on Saturday late afternoon from a neighbour ,their horse was bleeding from a back passage and theres a pool of blood on the ground,could I go look. Said sure ,sounds to me like you got a snakebite from the symptoms they described.Go over take one look and I'm 99.9% convinced that's what it is as I've seen a number of horses with it. So I said I don't like your chances ,never seen one survive yet even after aggressive vet treatment but you need a vet diagnosis to be 100% sure that's what it is. If you want to borrow my horse trailer then come grab it and I'll help you get it on the float but she may collapse on the way as it's about an hour's drive to the nearest vet,or you can get the vet out but she may still need it in the clinic for treatment. Up to you. So said I'm going home to feed my ponies ,let me know what you decide and I'll give you a hand. I wasn't home five minutes when they ring and say the horse has started crashing into trees ,has started bleeding from the nostrils and has collapsed and can I go over put it down for them. Unfortunately with certain snake species bites they go blind. So I go back over put it to sleep and then said I'll come back over in the morning and bury it . Well do you think I could get the damn loader started,no ,flat battery and even with jumpers on wouldn't start. So finally after whacking it on the battery charger for a few hours it kicked over and I go over bury the horse which of course by that time was starting to smell nice and ripe 🤮 Geez I hate damn snakes and it's a load of crap they hibernate in winter, we had a warmish day Saturday and their other neighbours had been mowing.Poor girl.

Well what started as a good weekend finished as crap. Get a call on Saturday late afternoon from a neighbour ,their horse was bleeding from a back passage and theres a pool of blood on the ground,could I go look. Said sure ,sounds to me like you got a snakebite from the symptoms they described.Go over take one look and I'm 99.9% convinced that's what it is as I've seen a number of horses with it. So I said I don't like your chances ,never seen one survive yet even after aggressive vet treatment but you need a vet diagnosis to be 100% sure that's what it is. If you want to borrow my horse trailer then come grab it and I'll help you get it on the float but she may collapse on the way as it's about an hour's drive to the nearest vet,or you can get the vet out but she may still need it in the clinic for treatment. Up to you. So said I'm going home to feed my ponies ,let me know what you decide and I'll give you a hand. I wasn't home five minutes when they ring and say the horse has started crashing into trees ,has started bleeding from the nostrils and has collapsed and can I go over put it down for them. Unfortunately with certain snake species bites they go blind. So I go back over put it to sleep and then said I'll come back over in the morning and bury it . Well do you think I could get the damn loader started,no ,flat battery and even with jumpers on wouldn't start. So finally after whacking it on the battery charger for a few hours it kicked over and I go over bury the horse which of course by that time was starting to smell nice and ripe 🤮 Geez I hate damn snakes and it's a load of crap they hibernate in winter, we had a warmish day Saturday and their other neighbours had been mowing.Poor girl.