Posted 2018-05-26 9:36 AM Subject: windpuffs appearing?
Member
Posts: 21
So my good mare had some windpuffs (or maybe they are something else but they look like windpuffs) on the side of her hock...she isn't sore, maybe a little "sticky". She has been ridden on some hard ground in the last week. I am now just walking and jogging a little bareback until the ground softens and to try to maybe get her moving a little to get rid of the fluid. Are these windpuffs or whatever they are something to be worried about? Or is it just maybe from the hard ground.
I would have them checked out. They can be mild or more serious. Best to stop any inflammation before it causes serious damage. Might just need simple hock injections or might be more serious arthritis starting.
Posted 2018-05-30 8:27 AM Subject: RE: windpuffs appearing?
Elite Veteran
Posts: 889
I agree with above.
If you're talking about on the outside of the hock, it looks like a squishy pocket? That's excess fluid build up (effusion) which is typically a sign of arthritis OR possible boney changes in the hocks. It can likely can be maintained with steroid injections.
Your description sounds like bog spavin--- usually correlates with inflammation within the very top hock joint (tarsocrural). Can stem from DJD changes, OCD, general inflammation. Sometimes horses are lame, sometimes not. Really just depends. If one side is more inflamed then the other usually indicates something going on within that joint and I would have your veterinarian look. If both sides equally effected *can* be a chronic type change.
windpuffs appearing?
