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Location: California | Anyone ever dealt with one? For those of you who can read x-rays I have attached one. I am waiting on UC Davis to call me back.
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| I dealt with the same thing. Tried 6-8 months stall rest (can't remember, several years ago) and there was no change. Denerved him, lasted 6 months and it wore off. He's a pasture pet now sadly enough. He was fairly sound, could barely detect lameness unless you had a trained eye. |
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Location: California | DarlingQHs - 2015-03-26 3:41 PM I dealt with the same thing. Tried 6-8 months stall rest (can't remember, several years ago) and there was no change. Denerved him, lasted 6 months and it wore off. He's a pasture pet now sadly enough. He was fairly sound, could barely detect lameness unless you had a trained eye.
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| barely lame before.... stayed the same the whole way through other then the 6 months he was sound after i denerved him. |
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Location: California | DarlingQHs - 2015-03-26 5:47 PM
barely lame before.... stayed the same the whole way through other then the 6 months he was sound after i denerved him.
This horse is very lame. Happened 9 days ago. Vet gave me very little hope... But I have a few other vets I am waiting on. |
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Location: LOUISIANA | I have a broodmare with a navicular fracture. She busted out absesses in areas of her foot I never dreamed of. Her abcesses have all healed except for one which is slowly drying up. She has been on antibiotics for a while now and has egg bars on her. She had been confined to a double stall and had her foal March 17.
as long as she is walking and not 3 legged lame I will give her a chance to be a pasture ornament the rest of her life. ( I have had her since age 2, she is 16 now) the vet wants to put her down. no way yet.
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Location: Opelousas, LA | We had a filly fracture hers in a back foot, she was super lame, hobbling around barely putting her toe on the ground. Hubby shaped a shoe to fit her foot, pulled clips on it and welded a piece of round steel bar stock from heel to heel. She stayed in a stall for six months and we reset the shoe every six weeks. She also got Nutrawound and Nitroxide for the first two months.
She ended up pretty sound considering the vets prognosis in the beginning, we actually put her back in training and raced her once, just kept wedges on her back feet. Ended up selling her as a broodmare because even though she raced good and pulled up sound I still think it bothered her. Decided it was better to retire her fairly sound then to risk a devastating re- injury.
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Location: Texas | We had a gelding that fractured his navicular bone, his fracture looked like slice of pie. Our vet put him soft rides and then I did Accuscope treatments on him daily. Like your horse the original prognosis was very dim, the vet wasn't sure if he would even become sound enough to be a pasture ornament. Well two years later a little girl is winning saddles and buckles off of him. Forgot to mention that when they attend the bigger barrel races, they run at the top of the 1D.
Edited by EnterUp 2015-03-27 10:25 AM
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Location: Gainesville, TX | We had a gelding fracture his coffin bone in his hind foot. I know its not the navicular bone but he was pretty darn lame. We put him out to pasture for two years. He came back great. We sold him to a little girl to run barrels on year before last. They are still running and he is like 21. |
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Location: delaWHERE? | My advice to you would be to get ahold of Dean Richardson at the University of Pennsylvania's large animal hospital, The New Bolton Center. If you wanna fix it and have a sound horse, he's the man to do it. |
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