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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | so no puking and saying I didn't warn you.
My Firewater Finale colt got into a beef with something and lost I would say. Here is before and after pictures.
Biggest issue is keeping it somewhat warm so it can begin to heal. I don't have a heated barn, but he is being kept inside out of the wind and snow. He has clean straw and is on meds and I clean it several times a day with disinfectent.
I am using horse sized lycra shoulder guards for now (and he keeps getting out of them somehow) until the small horse one comes. I also have a friend giving me a blanket that will fit him. Hoping with the shoulder guard it won't rub on him. But I don't have my hopes up.
The vet had to hack off the hanging bits, he was out in the corral in 30 below temps for as long as 4 hours like this. Vet said the hide was frozen and dead and had to be cut off. He also narrowly missed tearing out his trachea in whatever process he got himself into.
I have all sorts of sprays and creams etc. I have never had any luck with Veterycin but figured what the hay and have been spraying it on this as it seems less "stingy" as some of the other things I have.
So let's hear it. I want this kiddo healed up as pretty as can be
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| wow! well, it looks a lot better from picture 1 to picture 2. Do you think he get hung up on a post or something? |
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| This happened to my old man. We had to put an inflated tire tube around his neck to keep him from scratching it with his teath and tearing out the stiches. He drug 50' of barbed wire across his chest while he walked a fence line after breaking the top strand. I think it actually looks pretty good. The best thing our vet had us do was to spray it with cold water from a hose until it was pink every day, but that doesnt work this time of year:( Just keep it as clean as you can. Good luck! |
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Location: Home of the World Famous "Silver Bullet" | keep on with your program. it looks great !! |
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 Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Well, the vet did a nice job there. My sister's paint colt tore a hunk out of himself that was that bad, maybe worse, and Vetricyn did wonders on it. The scar is minimal and you could put your whole fist in the wound when it happened. So, how about making a figure 8 dressing that goes over his withers and through the center of his legs with some velcro end ace bandages. You could use 2 or 3 of those together with an maxi pad or two over the wound itself. The blanket would definitely help if you can get your hands on one. Just hope he doesn't bust those sutures open...... |
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| When the Boy lost most of his neck after being stomped by Zan it was a bit later into the winter than this. No, we don't get quite as cold here as WY, but his first weeks were during a 3 punch snow storm that laid down over 40" of snow, so it was cold. I don't even have a barn, so other than the few days he spent in the clinic with his medical maggot treatment, he was in half a run in shed with a gate across the front. I had to clean and spray with aluminum spray 3 times daily. See if that spray is an option for this wound? I did not cover the Boy's wound, nor did we close it with stitches at any time. It healed VERY well, and actually grew back a ton of hair. I wish I had a current pic of it, but here it is before maggots. This was three hoof print large:
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Location: Kansas | HOLY QUACAMOLY!!!!!
Someone that I'm friends with on facebook commented on that photo...so I saw it on facebook. All I can say is many prayers and I hope it heals!!! |
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 Namesless in BHW
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Pic 1-pic 2...what a difference. I would use Underwoods and Baking Powder on it. I had a mare that gashed herself open way worse than that from the front of her chest down and back up to her girth area. Started Underwoods and it healed without a scar. Amazing stuff. |
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Location: Near San Antonio, TX | Darn, he sure did a number to himself!! I don't have any wound advise to offer, just prayers!! |
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| I had no luck with Underwoods and baking powder on a hard to heal wound but vetericyn did the trick. One good thing about winter is you don't have to worry about flies. Good luck, I had a FF baby that was the best minded baby.
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | total performance - 2013-12-09 4:39 PM Pic 1-pic 2...what a difference. I would use Underwoods and Baking Powder on it. I had a mare that gashed herself open way worse than that from the front of her chest down and back up to her girth area. Started Underwoods and it healed without a scar. Amazing stuff.
This is what i would do as well. Prayers for quick and complete healing. |
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Location: Cottonwood, Ca | yikes.... i had a horse i cared for years ago with the whole shoulder exposed..... i would scrub it 2x aday with betadine.... use scarlett oil on it then apply the alumasheild so it would keep it clean but breath..... good luck....
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 The Bling Princess
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Location: North Dakota | to offer that underlying skin some protection from the subzero temps we are having you could try covering it with a chuk pad and gorilla tape?? That tapes sticks to anything. Might pull some shoulder hairs out in the process, but it would at least be something. |
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Location: Lala Land | I had something kinda similar, mine tore a l-shape of skin like that and had a hole in his chest and my vet said hydro therapy also. It healed perfect. Good luck! Sorry this happened. |
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| What we have found that works wonders is washing the wound with warm salt water- just dabbing at it with a cloth.
Once you have it washed apply a mixture of tea tree oil, baby powder, and canola oil (mix it up into a paste). We haven't had one cut up quite to this extent since we started using this (as per a naturopath's instruction), but we have a super accident prone mare who we've used this on numerous times on nasty cuts on her legs, and she has very minimal scarring.
Good luck! I would have high hopes for that wound- I've seen some nasty ones heal up to look pretty darn good, and that doesn't really look like it's gone into the muscle too badly which definitely makes it easier! |
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Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | thank you all. Vet preferred hydro as well, we just don't think it is a good idea with our temps :(
I like the figure 8 bandabe idea. I have cotton in rolls and lots of guaze of assorted sizes and lengths. I'm afraid the cotton will stick to the wound bad. We are an hour from the closest vet and 2 from anywhere that sells vet stuff so I try and keep a ton of things on hand. Of course I haven't had anything quite like this before.
He really has a great mind. I haven't played with him in 2 months. My father n law helped walk behind him and we loaded him out of the corral. I got to the vet and got in with him and haltered him and then led him out and into her heated clinic through a snow drift in front of the door. He was such a trooper.
The vet is also worried about him chewing on the stitches especially when it starts to heal and itch. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | I've never had one that bad. But the larger wounds I've had healed up great with vetericyn. I suggest using it as often as you can. The more times a day I applied it, the better/faster the wound healed. |
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Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | This is the worst one we had and it was on a untouched foal still on the mare. He was my keeper so at least he wasn't already sold. We didn't do anything for it but keep an eye on it. It healed wonderful. There was nothing to stitch and it was in a much cleaner environment in pasture with less dirt and flies than in the corral.
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Location: Sunny So Cal | WOW! that is CRAZY!! I would definitely feed him THE NutraWound! Maybe some Calming Cookies to keep him relaxed and not thinking about how he can rip out his stitches or rub anything off that you do put on it. Looks a ton better in the second picture! Had a good vet stitch him up.  |
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| To avoid the cotton sticking to the wound try putting on neosporin (Very small amount). My dog had his paws torn up from a fence and I had the same issue with the bandage sticking to his wound. It worked great and it kept the wound from itching.
*** That photo was hard to look at. I havent seen something that bad in years. I hope your lil guy recovers quick! |
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