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Location: Rodeos or Baseball games | My daughters mare got bit on the nose Saturday by a rattle snake. We have never had this happen in the 22 yrs. we have lived here.
Is there anything I need to keep my eye on for side effects?
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | This happen Saturday? How is she now? I would have worried about her face swelling and her nose closing up so that she cant breathe, vets would put tubes up the horses nose so when they swelled shut they could still breathe. |
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Location: Rodeos or Baseball games | We took her to the vet Saturday and she is still their. They put tubes up her nose, the swelling was about 3 or 4 times its normal. She is on heavy doses of antibiotics. |
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Location: Here | Good Tubes is the great approach I would leave her at the vet where they can monitor for a few days
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | GOIN' FAST - 2014-07-07 10:19 AM
We took her to the vet Saturday and she is still their. They put tubes up her nose, the swelling was about 3 or 4 times its normal. She is on heavy doses of antibiotics.
Good I'm glad that shes at a vets, sounds like they are doing the right things for her. Its going to look ugly for awhile, but they will take care of her.  |
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Location: Rodeos or Baseball games | Anyone else have this happen? |
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Location: Here | GOIN' FAST - 2014-07-07 10:49 AM Anyone else have this happen?
Yes I have had 2 both recovered very well
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Location: Rodeos or Baseball games | What was the recovery time? |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Had it happen to a great rodeo horse. Right on the end of his nose. He was rideable in about two weeks but it took about six months before his nose stopped changing and healed completely. The skin on his upper lip/tissue got super hard and tight, to where you couldn't pull his upper lip away to do things like twitch him (he never needed that anyways, just used that for reference).
Your vet will know what's best for your horse, but he/she will be fine! |
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Location: Here | GOIN' FAST - 2014-07-07 11:06 AM What was the recovery time?
Swelling down about 2 weeks Didn't ride for a month |
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Location: Rodeos or Baseball games | Thank you everyone. Praying that things go well. |
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Location: Here | GOIN' FAST - 2014-07-07 11:51 AM Thank you everyone. Praying that things go well.
Each horse will be different. Visit with your vet about recoup time |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | GOIN' FAST - 2014-07-07 10:19 AM
We took her to the vet Saturday and she is still their. They put tubes up her nose, the swelling was about 3 or 4 times its normal. She is on heavy doses of antibiotics.
Did they not giver her anti-venom? Maybe they don't give it to horses because a dog takes about 3 viles and each vile is around $300 |
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Location: Here | TessBelle - 2014-07-07 12:31 PM GOIN' FAST - 2014-07-07 10:19 AM We took her to the vet Saturday and she is still their. They put tubes up her nose, the swelling was about 3 or 4 times its normal. She is on heavy doses of antibiotics. Did they not giver her anti-venom? Maybe they don't give it to horses because a dog takes about 3 viles and each vile is around $300
My vets dont carry it because of the extreme cost and shelf life |
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Location: NM...the Land of Manana | TessBelle - 2014-07-07 11:31 AM GOIN' FAST - 2014-07-07 10:19 AM We took her to the vet Saturday and she is still their. They put tubes up her nose, the swelling was about 3 or 4 times its normal. She is on heavy doses of antibiotics. Did they not giver her anti-venom? Maybe they don't give it to horses because a dog takes about 3 viles and each vile is around $300
Had a dog get bit last summer. All he got were fluids, prednisone and antibiotics and he was good to go a few days later. Now my sister got bit a few days after that and she had something like 10 or 12 vials. Don't know why it is different with humans and animals. |
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Location: Finally horseback again.... | My son n law had one bitten about a week ago, On the the right nostril. Started swelling and within 2 hours he was completely closed and had to have a trach.
He is home now, have to wait not on the tracheotomy to heal.
Very scary deal!! |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Kinda off topic - but one tip I always remembered from my vet was - if your horse gets bit, as soon as possible, if you can cut about a 10" piece of hose and put it in their nostril. (If it is a nose bite) I know it won't always work, but if you live out in the boonies like us and it is 2 hours to a vet, it would help. I have always told this to my husband and children too.
Sorry to hijack, but it is a useful little tip............................ |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | SG. - 2014-07-07 10:55 AM GOIN' FAST - 2014-07-07 11:51 AM Thank you everyone. Praying that things go well.
Another was bit on the nose and we found him a day or so after it happened. He never had trouble breathing and by the time we found him, the swelling wasn't too bad. However he was only 2 and every time we handled him after that he was a nut. It kind of fried his brain. He was sent packing.
My stud got bit on the edge of his lip/nose and he swelled bad. Gave him antibiotics and meds for inflammation per the vet. He never needed a tube either. Just watched him. He healed fine and no lasting affects. Might have a pic of him.
Had a 1-2 day old filly get tagged by a rattler just above her coronet on the front foot and we dr'd on her on and off all summer long. Thought we had it beat and she finally had infection get to the bone and we ended up putting her down.
That is all I can remember. We have a ton of prairie rattlers here where I live.
edited I can't find the picture of my stud looking like a moose face
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| I had a cat bitten on the side of the head and took it to the vet. She did not give anti venom and the cat was fine in a few hours. Vet said without treatment that animals abcess all over from the venom. The dog has been bitten a couple of times by a water moccasin and he was fine without anti venom. Animals are pretty resilient from snakebites. Just do what the vet tells you and I am sure the horse will be fine. Not too pleasant to deal with though.
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| We had two get bit when I was a kid. My dad didn't take horses to the vet. I kept cold compresses on their nose and they lived.......don't recall much else, but one of them was Knotthead's great granny. |
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | We had one get bit last year. He is a nasty POS bucker, so I was kinda hoping nature would take him off my feed bill. No such luck...He swelled up but not terribly so. One went in deep and the other grazed his nose. He still has the scar from the deep hole.
While riding last week, it began to rain. We haven't had rain in such a long time, that I decided to keep riding. My mare got ansy and I assumed it was because we were heading towards the barn. I decided to do circles and she suddenly jumped sideways. Yep...pretty nice sized rattler was soaking up the rain as well, and I darn near put her on top of it. (or should I say when she jumped sideways, she darn near put me on top of it. lol...)
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Location: Arizona | I have never had a horse bitten by a rattler but had a dog that was bitten twice and pulled through just fine without anti venom. My dairy goat was just bitten this 4th of July in the morning, I about had a heart attack. We found the snake and killed it. She is recovering well. I think she was bitten on the lower jaw, her nose swelled a lot but not enough to need to put hoses in her nostrils . Most of the swelling was under the jaw, lips, and neck. She couldn't eat or drink for the first 2 days. I gave her Benadryl every 8 hours, as well as electrolytes and water through a syringe every 2 and cold compresses. By day 3 I was giving her milk and oatmeal "smoothies". Sunday evening she started eating and drinking on her own but needed her feed and water elevated as it hurt to bad to put her head down. Yesterday she was doing even better. We started her on antibiotics to make sure she doesn't get an infection. Still can't tell where she was bitten exactly. Sounds like your vet is doing the right things. Animals are more tolerant to the venom than we are. My bet is your horse should recover just fine. I do have a friend who's horse was bitten on the leg and the swelling never went away. He is working sound but always looks stocked up on that leg for some reason. |
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Location: ND | We had a yearling filly get bit right above the eye.. she never had trouble breathing but her face swelled so much when the swelling went down her skin just fell off.. I think because she was so small and young it messed with her mind too. |
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Location: Rodeos or Baseball games | Well we got our mare home. She is doing much better, last of antibiotics tonight. The swelling has gone right down and vet said should be able to ride in a week. 
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | GOIN' FAST - 2014-07-10 3:37 PM Well we got our mare home. She is doing much better, last of antibiotics tonight. The swelling has gone right down and vet said should be able to ride in a week.
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Location: Fort Worth / Springtown | Honeymoney - 2014-07-07 4:53 PM I had a cat bitten on the side of the head and took it to the vet. She did not give anti venom and the cat was fine in a few hours. Vet said without treatment that animals abcess all over from the venom. The dog has been bitten a couple of times by a water moccasin and he was fine without anti venom. Animals are pretty resilient from snakebites. Just do what the vet tells you and I am sure the horse will be fine. Not too pleasant to deal with though.
In a few hours? My husband woke me up one morning and said "Something's wrong with one of the cats." I look over and her face was swelled huge - she didn't seem to distressed, though.
I told him she might've got snake bit - he looked at her head and says he did see 2 marks on her skin.
I remember reading somewhere about cats pulling through w/ no treatment -- we put medicine on her head of some sort , watched her for a bit. We had to leave the house for some reason, can't remember, and when we came back a few hours later, she was fine. I thought it must not have been a snake bite, then??? |
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