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Location: Washington | Need your guys help...
Have a horse who is 3 legged lame on the left hind. He isn't dragging/carrying it and bears weight on it when walking but is lame like I said. When he walks he stretches it forward on a normal big stride (not little shortsteps) but toes when he walks instead of placing flat footed. The big muscle there in the hip (just in front of where the groove is on a fit horse and lower) is pretty loose but it isn't over where the bone runs, and a little heat. Have pushed and poked all over his hip, leg, foot and no reaction, other then where the muscle is flabby.
No vets are on call today or yesterday. Gave him banamine. He is bright eyed, eating, ect. We moved him last night from the pasture to a small pen by himself.
Any similar experiences?
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| If he is walking on his toe, sounds more like abcess to me.. |
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Location: WI | That doesn't sound like a stifle to me because he won't bear weight on it. My gelding had a ligiment tear in his stifle and would bear weight fine, stand with the other hind leg up. and flex fine, just would drag it. |
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The Advice Guru
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| Could be many things including deep digital flexor tendon |
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 Super PIckle
Location: Where ever | String halt?
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 Born not Made
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Location: North Dakota | Could be stifle or hip.
My old gelding wouldn't break over all the way with his hind foot. Turned out he had arthritis in both the stifle and hip (depending on which came first).
Heard anything from the vet yet? Which horse is this? (just curious) |
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 Hummer's Hero
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | When my mare ruptured her stifle she wasn't obviously lame--I could just tell she wasn't right. No heat, no swelling, no soreness what-so-ever, therefore, she acted completely normal as far as bright eyes, eating and drinkin. She wouldn't/couldn't really use her hock, and moved her leg from her hip instead...drug her toe...and flopped her foot down on the ground (not hard, just lacked finess). She also COULD NOT BACK UP. I learned that was the tell tale sign.
I'm sure it depends on which muscle grouping and ligaments/tendons are actually injured, and to what degree, but when I picked my mare's foot up like I was going to clean her feet out, the thick tendon that runs over the back of the hock looked like a loose rubber band. Her's was her peritoneous...tertiary...something or other, LOL. I'd have to go look at her vet records. |
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