I thought I would put this here. As you know sox is slightly lame. Would you always keep in or turn out. I know so.e people stay keep in and some people say turnout. What would you do?
You're very very very lucky you have such a good horse. Bertha fractured her pedal bone too 10 years ago when we first got her. Now bearing in mind she came from a RS yard where they didn't really turn horses out, you'd be surprised when I say we couldn't box rest or turn her out in a small paddock. Why? She galloped round like a loony in the paddock and did canter pirouettes in her stable. Put out in the big field with the others and she calmed down. We did compromise however and pulled my other horse out the big field with her into the tiny paddock overnight, leaving the other horse alone to go a little loopy, but box resting or restriction didn't work for her.When mine went slightly lame. Got the vet out. He examined and could find nothing obvious. No swelling, heat etc. He said poltice and box rest for a week and see if it draws out any abscess, if not then they would have to investigate further. Week later nothing appeared he seemed to be walking better, so turned out on a small patch of restricted grass but it then seemed to make him slightly lame again on the uneven ground. I then called the vet again and and he said put back on box rest and I arranged for him to have xrays which the confirmed fractured pedal bone.
As the horse had never been stabled. The box rest consisted of an open stable door, with access to a small concrete yard. Not too big a yard but enough to stop boredom. He ended up on box rest for 4 months.