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| Any tips for helping them cope? We have a soft tissue injury in the front foot and will need a year to a year and a half 
what do I feed, and how do I help him handle this confinement... anyone have success healing this type of thing?
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Location: Where I am happiest | Find someone with a magnetic pulse machine or if nothing else use magnetic bell boots and dose with THE Nitroxide and Nutrawound. It will not take nearly so long to heal. |
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 Cute Little Imp
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Location: N Texas | ThreeCorners - 2014-04-04 8:33 AM
Find someone with a magnetic pulse machine or if nothing else use magnetic bell boots and dose with THE Nitroxide and Nutrawound. It will not take nearly so long to heal.
Ditto. PHT magnetic products or Back on Track and Nutrawound.
As far as feed, give mostly hay with little or no grain. When mine was strictly confined to a stall with zero turnout, he got a little bit of senior feed each day and I rigged some panels so I could also give him a round bale to eat 24/7. I tried the hanging salt lick and he completely ignored it, but yours might like it. Luckily my horse handled it really well and didn't go crazy. |
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 Dr. Ruth
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | Ditto to those suggestions above. I had a horse go out with a surgery on her front leg and then literally like 3 days before she was going to get cleared tore her hammy. She is a full TB (though short and stocky and looks like a QH) so she easily loses her mind. I did a couple of things. A friend helped. I stuck Grasshopper with her for a while. GRasshopper I thought was going to kill me but it kept her relaxed AND it further confined her. Lilly could figure out how to make quick movements even in a 10x10 stall.
Calming cookies would be good. Dr. Tanner always told me if they are having a bad day to ace them.
I also tried to find ways to get them out. They may not be able to walk or run, but a bath, eating grass, massage, icing outside of the stall, etc really helped. It may be that you literally just take them to the other side of the stall but it can do a world of good. And if they can't stick their head out to see the sun, any way to get some rays of sunshine on their backs will help. |
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| We panelled off one of our dry lots to make it smaller so that my horse could be outside with the other horses. My horse was only on stall rest for 6 months but he handled it. We kept feeding him his normal grain and hay. |
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Location: WI | That is a really long time! I would definitely check into therapies that would speed it up. I had one on 6mos stall rest, soft tissue stifle. He needed drugs, I eventually put him on reserpine which is a long lasting sedative. I gave him a small oral dose about every 3 days. You can give a shot that lasts longer. |
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 Ditch the Stirrups
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Location: Sorrow Not! Defending against workplace bullies | A slow feeder hay box will help your horse cope. |
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