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 The Bird Lady
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | Yearling filly had a small scrape on coronary band on front foot and was limping so we soaked foot and put ointment on scrape for several days. She limped but with pain meds would not limp. When she felt frisky, she would run and play and play and kick (when not on pain meds) but then at a walk would limp. After several days, it is now slightly swollen from just above coronary band to just below ankle,and its no more swollen on one side or the other - even all around. Will try to get a pic. She flexes the ankle fine, and hoof testers found no soreness. Trying to get vet our here or both of us are trying to get off work to take her 3 hours to vet but this is the worse week ever. This is a nice filly so I'm sure whatever wrong is something that will be career ending or require expensive surgery. Any ideas what this could be? Is she a candidate for a DMSO furasin sweat? |
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Expert
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| Could be infection? Or sprianed a ankle. I had a horse sprain one. It's a tricky thing |
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| Is it possible she has an abscess? |
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Expert
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| Abcess or infection from the cut. |
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 Tried and True
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Location: Where I am happiest | Could be the onset of ring bone from the impact that caused the scrape. |
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The Bird Lady
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | If you can spare a prayer, please say one for this yearling filly, she's a super nice filly, we sold out and are just keeping a few, and she's one of the best. Headng to the vet in the morning. |
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 Reaching for the stars....
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| Prayers that it's only a high abscess. Regardless, prayers that it's something simpler rather than really bad.  |
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| prayer said. I feel your pain with vet bills ... |
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The Advice Guru
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| Crushed collateral ligament
Fractured pastern
These are my two guesses |
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 Mouhahaha
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Location: British Columbia | My colt had a tiny cut that I never even noticed. It became infected and swelled up like a stove pipe. I cold hosed him and washed it out 4x a day and kept him dry and clean(as clean as I could keep a colt lol) and had the vet out to check on it. It cleared up and the swelling went down after about a week.
The cut was so small it took alot of filtering through his coat to find it. |
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 Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Praying its something she can heal from. |
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 Too Skinny
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | any heat? |
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Tried and True
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Location: Where I am happiest | Let us know what you find out. Prayers it's something simple. |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | My first thought was cellulitis. She has a scrape on the skin- I know with all of my horses, it takes a scrape to make their leg swell up bad. I would not panic just yet. Go to the vet, hopefully she just needs some antibiotics and maybe cleaning up the cut if its bad enough. I would also try to put a wrap on it to get the swelling out.
Don't freak out just yet! If she was non weight bearing lame, and pain meds didn't touch it, I would be worried.
how deep is the cut?
Edited by casualdust07 2014-03-25 8:07 AM
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