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Location: Opelousas, LA | Our three year old filly fractured her navicular bone, vet says most likely a broodmare now but we can try to fix her. It is in a back foot so that is better than a front. Our plan is to bring her home, put an egg bar shoe with clips on that foot and give Nitroxide and Nutrawound.
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| Any broken bones I have my horses get tildren IV (is licensed in Canada) and inject bone marrow into the break. All of mine have returned to competition level |
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Location: Central Texas | Tildren
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| You definetly want to increase blood flow. I would check into Silver Lining Herbs as well as a laser and Theraplate. |
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| We had a calf horse fracture his navicular on the front. The vet sent xrays off all over the country to 8 different Big Vets to see what they thought. His was a verticle one, not good. 2 of the vets said turn him out and see what happens, horses can sure prove you wrong, the other 6 said put him down. We chose to give him a shot. I have a laser and lasered him and put magnetic bell boots on for a month, then turned him out to big pasture with broodmares. We did put a bar shoe on him for 3 months, this horse just limped slightly. After almost a year, he wasn't limping anymore, he does move a little different and you have to really look to see which foot it is. Took him to vet and shot some xrays and wow. It calcified and they told us to use him. I breakawayed some on him, then we gave him to a 10 year old boy to learn to rope and goat tie on. We have him back and he is such a really nice teaching horse, so will now be teaching my Grandaughters to breakaway. So don't count her out, she could suprise the vets! |
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Hog Tie My Mojo
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Shadowrider - 2014-04-07 10:33 PM We had a calf horse fracture his navicular on the front. The vet sent xrays off all over the country to 8 different Big Vets to see what they thought. His was a verticle one, not good. 2 of the vets said turn him out and see what happens, horses can sure prove you wrong, the other 6 said put him down. We chose to give him a shot. I have a laser and lasered him and put magnetic bell boots on for a month, then turned him out to big pasture with broodmares. We did put a bar shoe on him for 3 months, this horse just limped slightly. After almost a year, he wasn't limping anymore, he does move a little different and you have to really look to see which foot it is. Took him to vet and shot some xrays and wow. It calcified and they told us to use him. I breakawayed some on him, then we gave him to a 10 year old boy to learn to rope and goat tie on. We have him back and he is such a really nice teaching horse, so will now be teaching my Grandaughters to breakaway. So don't count her out, she could suprise the vets!
Thanks for sharing, was your horse really lame when the injury first happened? Our filly is pretty much hobbling on three legs. |
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Location: Texas | I would look into stem cell treatment. The kind they take from bone marrow and culture for 2-3 weeks. We just and a lecture on this at TAMU and they used it to fuse a hock who's tarsometarsal joint got severed in barbed wire. it was incredible. Because the wound was open they couldn't fuse it with a plate, so they had to just bandage and give stem cells and hope for the best. it healed really well and laid down a lot of new bone. |
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| Yeah, the first 2 weeks he was really lame, we actually thought it was an abcess at first. |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | casualdust07 - 2014-04-08 7:33 AM I would look into stem cell treatment. The kind they take from bone marrow and culture for 2-3 weeks. We just and a lecture on this at TAMU and they used it to fuse a hock who's tarsometarsal joint got severed in barbed wire. it was incredible. Because the wound was open they couldn't fuse it with a plate, so they had to just bandage and give stem cells and hope for the best. it healed really well and laid down a lot of new bone.
Thanks! Would a local equine hospital be able to do that or would I need to haul to LSU? Dr. Findley didn't mention the possibility of stem cell or Tildren as a treatment. |
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