Post by beckie on Feb 22, 2008 16:32:38 GMT 1
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The other week when I did the morning hay I noticed Graham was lame on his off fore, not wanting to put weight on it, hobbling around etc. He refused to come down to the yard but was happy to hobble for hay!! I put him in the small (very small!) grassy 'paddock' down by our house and he seemed ok (Though still lame) I felt his leg and it was a little hot at the bottom of his tendon and felt a little teeny bit swollen around his fetlock so I thought he might have strained something, tripped and twisted it in the field?
The vet came out in the afternoon (he couldn't make it any earlier) and said it was an abscess! Graham's had his front shoes off (his hinds were already barefoot) since the end of last september when we got him. They had seedy toe in the huge notches the farrier had cut into his foot to fit the shoe to his foot, but that was killed off and the cracks were growing out. His near fore is now completely grown out, but his off fore still had a smallish crack. The vet said dirt had got into it and caused an abscess, so he dug away at his foot (argh!) and couldn't find any puss
but a lot of black stuff came out which he said was diseased horn. He put some magnesium sulfate paste in the hole and poulticed it and said to re poultice every five days with more magnesium sulfate to draw out any bad stuff and get our farrier to fill it with hoof putty to stop anything bad getting in, so we did.
He was almost 100% sound a few days after that, the farrier came the other day and said he didn't like using hoof putty as it blocked anything bad from escaping and if there was icky stuff in there it wouldn't be able to get out and so it'd rise up and be generally not good
He trimmed his feet and put some green oils gel on cotton wool and put that in the hole and then gaffer taped it in place. He said it didn't look like an abscess, more like he'd knocked his leg in the first place! argh, why is nothing straightforward??
So now Graham is happy and almost 100% sound (but I don't think he's really happy) and has a new cottonwool and green oils wodge put in there everyday and re gaffer taped so its protected. His leg seems fine, no swelling or heat. Not really sure what to do, his foot is very soft and his frog is all squidgy We think because its covered up all the time? His other feet are very good and hard.
So what do we do next? If he's sound could he go back into (booted and at walk) ridden work or is it best to wait longer? Any suggestions and also, what do you think the problem could be/have been, abscess or sprain?? Bit confused
beckie
The other week when I did the morning hay I noticed Graham was lame on his off fore, not wanting to put weight on it, hobbling around etc. He refused to come down to the yard but was happy to hobble for hay!! I put him in the small (very small!) grassy 'paddock' down by our house and he seemed ok (Though still lame) I felt his leg and it was a little hot at the bottom of his tendon and felt a little teeny bit swollen around his fetlock so I thought he might have strained something, tripped and twisted it in the field?
The vet came out in the afternoon (he couldn't make it any earlier) and said it was an abscess! Graham's had his front shoes off (his hinds were already barefoot) since the end of last september when we got him. They had seedy toe in the huge notches the farrier had cut into his foot to fit the shoe to his foot, but that was killed off and the cracks were growing out. His near fore is now completely grown out, but his off fore still had a smallish crack. The vet said dirt had got into it and caused an abscess, so he dug away at his foot (argh!) and couldn't find any puss
but a lot of black stuff came out which he said was diseased horn. He put some magnesium sulfate paste in the hole and poulticed it and said to re poultice every five days with more magnesium sulfate to draw out any bad stuff and get our farrier to fill it with hoof putty to stop anything bad getting in, so we did.He was almost 100% sound a few days after that, the farrier came the other day and said he didn't like using hoof putty as it blocked anything bad from escaping and if there was icky stuff in there it wouldn't be able to get out and so it'd rise up and be generally not good
He trimmed his feet and put some green oils gel on cotton wool and put that in the hole and then gaffer taped it in place. He said it didn't look like an abscess, more like he'd knocked his leg in the first place! argh, why is nothing straightforward??So now Graham is happy and almost 100% sound (but I don't think he's really happy) and has a new cottonwool and green oils wodge put in there everyday and re gaffer taped so its protected. His leg seems fine, no swelling or heat. Not really sure what to do, his foot is very soft and his frog is all squidgy
We think because its covered up all the time? His other feet are very good and hard.So what do we do next? If he's sound could he go back into (booted and at walk) ridden work or is it best to wait longer? Any suggestions and also, what do you think the problem could be/have been, abscess or sprain?? Bit confused
beckie
