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| I'm hoping to get some other opinions to hopefully make me sleep a little better tonight. I am pretty paranoid to begin with but... puffy/swollen hind leg
My 4 yr old filly is in heat, not usually a kicker, but I think being in heat may have been the reason. She usually hangs out along the fence with the neighbor horses and everything is great. The fence in between is a metal pipe fence, I think its boom lacing??? (heavy metal pipe anyways) I assume they were picking across the fence and she spun and kicked. We were sitting on our back deck about 100 yds away and we heard it. The first thing I saw was her loping around on three legs.. great. I run over there and get her caught. She was putting weight on it but an obvious limp by the time I got there, much better than the 3 legged lope she was doing.... With her white sock I could tell right where she connected. She had a nice red spot from the paint just above her pastern on the back side of her back right.
This happened Saturday afternoon. Sunday morning I stuck her out in the arena to see how she was moving, didn't have much of a limp at a trot, I do have a video. She was her normal spunky self and did her usually wandering around the pasture throughout the day. She was a little puffy through her cannon bone, but no heat.
I didn't get a chance to check her this morning, but my husband told me she wasn't real swollen... BUT he didn't let her out of her 20x20 run so she was penned up all day. I ran out right after work to look at her. Her pastern area is noticeably swollen and up her cannon bone to her hock is puffy. When you walk up to her its not like you would think "wow that leg is swollen" or anything, but once you get up to her and take a look closer you do see the difference..... So thoughts? I plan on calling the vet in the morning, but looking for any input in the mean time.... hopefully its not as bad as I am thinking it could be???
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
  
Location: PNW | Lots of cold hosing, and make sure she can move. Also maybe some Sore No More or BOT wraps.
Since she's not three-legged on it, she might have just banged it really well and bruised it - same as you could do.
I had a filly that did so,teething similar and that is all that ended up being wrong was just a whopping bruise and some swelling, but not much to do for it except let it go its own way. Cold hose, movement, and maybe some sort of anti inflammatory.
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The Advice Guru
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| I have had 3 horses fracture cannon bones and all had minimal swelling could fully weight bear, no lameness, but had pain on paplation. I would take her in and get an set of X-rays, but I have ****ty luck when it comes to horses and bones. |
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Location: Phoenix | I would cold hose the leg and take her out of the pasture. It's not like the vet can do anything like put a cast on it so just rest easy. |
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Meanest Teacher!!!
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Location: sunny california | had one that got around pretty good with minimal swelling. I had it xrayed it was broke; nice little hairline. vet casted it and stall rest 30 days. he healed perfect. |
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The Advice Guru
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| hammer_time - 2014-02-25 1:22 AM
I would cold hose the leg and take her out of the pasture. It's not like the vet can do anything like put a cast on it so just rest easy.
My vet has never casted and there are a few things vets can do to speed up the healing and ensure proper healing.
Op I pmd you back
If it is broke I would suggest no casting as you can have skin breakdown and infection happening under the cast |
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Location: relocated to Texas | hammer_time - 2014-02-26 12:22 AM I would cold hose the leg and take her out of the pasture. It's not like the vet can do anything like put a cast on it so just rest easy.
Ditto. Personally, I would not spend the money for a vet at this point. I would cold water hose it, put a poultice wrap on it for 12 hours, hose it some more and do this for 4 or 5 days to see if the swelling goes down. |
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Location: Kansas | Hollywood's Fan - 2014-02-25 9:01 AM hammer_time - 2014-02-26 12:22 AM I would cold hose the leg and take her out of the pasture. It's not like the vet can do anything like put a cast on it so just rest easy. Ditto. Personally, I would not spend the money for a vet at this point. I would cold water hose it, put a poultice wrap on it for 12 hours, hose it some more and do this for 4 or 5 days to see if the swelling goes down.
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| Thanks for the replies!! I haven't had the best luck with horses so I always tend to be more cautious than the average person might be. She still seems to be getting around okay, but she is off now when she moves around where last night she wasn't too bad.
I am going to give my vet a call this morning when they get opened and see what his thoughts are. I think I would rather find out now what is going on before I wait and see. I am afraid if she did crack/fracture something and I wait and see she might make it worse. She is kind of like a little road runner and always on the go...
I am hoping its just a nice little visit with the vet and he tells me she just smacked it good and the swelling will begin to go down with the cold hosing :) |
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