My mare came up with a very swollen hind leg from top to bottom, about 6 days ago. We thought she had maybe gotten cast beside a pipe fence. There was only a small scratch on the front of her hock so we thought it was a torn ligament of some kind. Today while hosing her, I found these two knots up inside of her upper leg! I'm wondering if anyone else has seen anything like this. Could she have rolled on a snake? Does she have some weird tumors?! My husband thinks he sees two fany dots in one of them...
The swelling is better today. I would appreciate any feedback anyone has.
Posted 2014-10-31 10:17 AM Subject: RE: snake bite?
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Posts: 6343 Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta
if you suspect a snake bite i would have been to the vet faster than your head could spin, can be a lot of mucsle and tissue damage from a snake bite......i have seen a snake bite on a horses leg before..not pretty
i may live in the frozen cold north but at least i dont have to worry about friggen snakes...yuck
Posted 2014-10-31 10:33 AM Subject: RE: snake bite?
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To me the only way to know for sure if it was snake bite is to have seen it after it happen not days later. I had one of my horses get bit and that same day it swelled up pretty tight and you could seen where she got bit. The swelling went down in a few days, I'm pretty sure it was a Copperhead that bit her. There was no damage to any tissue/muscle and she is fine.
Posted 2014-10-31 10:57 AM Subject: RE: snake bite?
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Southtxponygirl - 2014-11-01 9:33 AM To me the only way to know for sure if it was snake bite is to have seen it after it happen not days later. I had one of my horses get bit and that same day it swelled up pretty tight and you could seen where she got bit. The swelling went down in a few days, I'm pretty sure it was a Copperhead that bit her. There was no damage to any tissue/muscle and she is fine.
your lucky it did no damage.....from what i have read and been told the venom can do a lot of damage, i had a friend goin to buy a horse that got bit but there was a lot of internal damage found and it basically compromised the whole leg and the soundness of the horse as anything other than a trail horse basically.....you guys would be way more up on the snake info...lol
snake bite?
