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Location: Sunny California | My donkey came down with pigeon fever the first of December. She blew 2 abscesses,the last one was about 3 weeks ago. II've been really good about keeping her isolated. Today my husband cleaned her pen and his disposable plastic booties we've been using broke. I thought I sprayed them with bleach to decontaminate them but I realized . Later that the sprayer actually wasn't turned on to dispense the bleach just water and my husband used the same shoes to go into my good show horses stall and clean it and bed it down. Now I'm worried that he'll get it. I'm really ocd and loosing sleep over this. My other good show horse that I have at the trainers came down with it about a month becore the donkey and was laid up for 3 months. Am I overreacting? I know there's really nothing I can do at this poi t but I'm still sick to my stomach. |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | If one of your other horses gets it, then you simply deal with it. Worrying won't really solve anything. We had a young horse with pigeon fever a few years ago. We didn't take any of those precautions because we didn't know we were supposed to. None of the other horses were affected. |
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 Livin in the Dinosaur Age
Posts: 1993
Location: the other T-town, Oklahoma | My gelding was diagnosed with it a couple years ago. We keep everyone if separate lots but they share fence lines. I didn't use "bootie" just washed my hands. None of the other 6 ended up with it. I did the best I could but can only do so much with our set up. His started as a lump on his chest that looked like a football is a week or so. Made a complete recovery. I rode him at home the entire time he had the swelling, just didn't put on my breast strap. |
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Posts: 2013
Location: Piedmont, OK | Other than keeping them separate and using something to boost the immunity of the horse infected and also to keep the others from getting it there is not much you can do. You could feed Lysine or Animal Element Immune to boost the immunity all of all of them. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Sunny California | Thanks for the replies everyone. I'm a nut case when it comes to my animals. I'm glad I don't have kids. I'd probably want to put them in a bubble...lol. I know there's no use worrying about it, because it is what it is. I just can't help it. I'm messed up. |
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 I Am Always Right
Posts: 4264
Location: stray dump capital of the world | I have 12 horses. Three years ago 2 horses developed pigeon fever. Neither horse shared a pasture. Two years ago, one more developed it. Since then no other horses got it. It's a hit and miss. I wouldn't worry even though I did. Lol. Best of luck. |
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Nut Case Expert
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | We had a case a few years ago in the dead of winter. He was the only one of eight to get it. We do not share a fence line with any other horses and the horse that got it had not been off the property in a couple of years. We did keep him in isolation once it busted open and began to drain. We flushed the abcess with an iodine/water mix daily and then coated with furacin. We thought he was about over it and turned him back out to pasture, but had to get him back to isolation when a secondary abcess appeared. Mostly we just kept our medical equipment very clean, handled the infected horse last. When we finished with him each evening we dipped out feet/shoes in bleach water and headed to the house to scrub up. |
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