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Location: Canada | Just wondering if anyone has had success in bringing a horse back from a broken coffin bone. I had a gelding break his down the center (right hind). We put him on stall rest for months, put a bar shoe on him and had him on Isoxsuprine. I really don't want to give up on him or lose hope however I would like to know if anyone has had success in bringing a horse back to 1D competition level after an injury like this. If so what did you do/feed?
Edited by ckgrad1 2014-02-17 10:36 AM
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| I have a gelding that broke his left rear coffin bone and came back with never a problem. He's 20 now and was a 2D/3D horse he never was a 1D horse to begin with. As long as the fracture is not in the joint horses recover fully from coffin bone fratures. If the fracture is actually in the joint too then you'll tend to have more problems if what was explained to me by the vets. |
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Location: Kaufman, Texas | I had one was broke in a couple of places by the time we finally found it. Was a hind leg also. Did the same as your doing. I hand grazed him everyday. Didn't want him to go wild when he finally got turned out. He went on to be a 1D horse. Never had a problem after that, even as he aged.   |
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| If you are dealing with a real break and not a micro break ... you will also be dealing with the coffin bone being rotated since whatever he did to break the coffin bone also tore it loose from the live laminae inside the hoof and moved its original position ..... plus the long stall rests goofy vets demand you do can affect and damage his other feet ....
Keep one stalled for 2 weeks and then put a baby diaper on his injured hoof as a pad and turn him out in a soft dry lot to walk around and allow 6 months for everything to heal as good as it is going to get .... and use him as a trail or pasture horse without any extreme exercise ...
GOOD LUCK ... |
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| ~I had a yearling fracture his coffin bone. Had it x-rayed...also to see progress at future date. Hired a GREAT farrier to build a bar and toe clip shoe for BOTH feet. Filled the bottom of the shoe with a "glue" type stuff that hardened. Basically the shoe was a cast so the foot would not move the bone. Kept him in a stall with a different buddy each day. After 9 weeks X rayed to see where he was at. Reset the shoes. Hand walked him daily after the first nine weeks. Went back to vet for another X ray after 8 weeks. Vet did tell me "keep doing what ever you are doing because I have seen horses with fractures not nearly this bad not look this good in 2 years" He went to race training and won his first out 11 months after he broke it. He is now 5 and going on to barrel career. I had great luck with the shoe stabelizing the foot and stall rest / confinment !! Good luck |
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Location: Canada | I have had some people mention trying Oxygen Products - Oxy Sox and Intensive Hoof Care as well. I am not worried to put a little money into him if it may help in his recovery, however I don't want to waste money either. Has anyone noticed a difference using these products? |
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Location: Mi | My Husbands heel horse fractured hers as a long weanling, shes now 11 and hasn't taken a bad step since. My husbands business partner had a Frisian break its coffin bone and the university here said to put him down. After some research we found Dr. Ric Redden in Versailes, Ky....AMAZING man, AMAZING work. The horse spent some time down there in his care, I want to say it was about 6 wks. He built special shoes for him, sent him home, helped our shoer here shoe him, sent other shoes up for him etc etc. Now hes been barefoot for gosh at lesat 6 yrs and hasn't taken a bad step one. |
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| The horse I referenced in my first post was 8 when he fractured his, he's now 20 and been nothing but 100% sound the entire 12 years since the fracture. |
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