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CEFERG Reg. Dec 2008	Posted 2014-08-06 12:28 PM Subject: YAY!! Cast Removal Day - Pretty impressed!
Extreme Veteran Posts: 452 Location: Alberta	Over the past 7weeks we have had 3 separate incidents with horses getting into fences resulting is 3 fairly nasty injuries - I guess when its your turn for bad luck you get a whole string of it. I just thought I would post some pictures to show before and after of 2 of them (the 3rd just happened so will post pictures another day of him). The first incident involved a 3yr old filly that we had pretty high hopes for, one of the best fillies we have raised out of our stud that passed away a couple years ago and she was our pick to futurity. One stupid decision on my part (rushing while closing a gate) resulted in our 2 and 3yr olds getting out and this filly tried jumping a barbed wire fence resulting is a pretty nasty cut to her heel on her right front. Minutes before this happened my husband sustained a head injury from a post pounder which we realized after altered his thinking a little and why we didn't take this filly to the vet right then and there. Her cut didn't seem too bad at first glance and given the location figured sutures was pointless so for 3 weeks we cold hosed twice a day, kept it wrapped and stall rest. After 3 weeks and sending pictures and texts to our vet we decided it was just not going to heal properly on its own so we took her into the vet and he suggested casting it! We had never heard of casting for such an injury but with some hesitation we agreed to give it a try. He hacked off ALOT of dead flesh, stitched what he could to hold it together and applied a cast that completely covered her hoof up to her ankle joint, now all we had to do was wait! In the mean time we had a moose run through our yard (we live on the prairies so a moose is not something our horses have ever seen) and ran our 2yr olds into the fence resulting in the EXACT same injury to a 2yr old gelding. We took him in immediately and sutured and casted him as well. The past 3.5 weeks has been brutal, trying to keep stalls as clean as possible and casts clean and in tact. Since fly season hit us last week we experienced swelling with both horses from stomping flies all day and no matter how much fly spray and putting them both back on bute we couldn't get the swelling to go down. We decided yesterday to remove the casts a few days early and hope all was healed under there. I will admit I was skeptical about this and pretty concerned what we would find when those casts came off but I am SOOOO pleased with the results. The 3yr old filly has another week or two of wrapping and stall rest as her cut isn't quite healed enough to turn her out but the grey colt should be good in a few days. I don't know how to post pictures into the body of a post so I will just post them all here at the end. I don't have a before picture of the grey 2yr old but it looked pretty much like the 3yr old without all the dead tissue as it was fresh. A few lessons learned here - if your husband gets bonked on the head pretty much right off anything he says for the next 48-72hrs and do what YOUR gut tells you!! This I realized the day following the 3yr olds injury when my hubby called me from work mad and asking why we didn't take her to the vet that night (I asked him 3 times while we were trying to get the bleeding to stop but he said no!). Secondly cast these types of injuries, its WAY less hassle and after seeing these two the result is way better then if you bust your butt cold hosing and wrapping. For some reason only 1 will show up and the rest you have to click on the link below. Edited by CEFERG 2014-08-06 12:40 PM (Electra 1day post.png) Attachments ---------------- Electra 1day post.png (32KB - 268 downloads) Electra - 3weeks.jpeg (93KB - 244 downloads) Electra - 6weeks post -3.5weeks casted-2.jpeg (95KB - 242 downloads) Electra - 6weeks post -3.5weeks casted.jpeg (84KB - 271 downloads) Ginger-4 weeks casted.jpeg (98KB - 257 downloads)
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Crowned Image Reg. Jan 2011	Posted 2014-08-06 12:36 PM Subject: RE: YAY!! Cast Removal Day - Pretty impressed!
I Chore in Chucks Posts: 2882 Location: MD	holy cow! I hope you can catch a break soon!
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cjoy Reg. Jan 2005	Posted 2014-08-07 10:47 AM Subject: RE: YAY!! Cast Removal Day - Pretty impressed!
Expert Posts: 1885	I had one get hung in a fence, surgery and casting was the best thing!!! He got hurt April 17th and is back to running now. Never took a lame step! And he cut his into the coffin joint.
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IRunOnFaith Reg. Dec 2009	Posted 2014-08-07 1:53 PM Subject: RE: YAY!! Cast Removal Day - Pretty impressed!
Expert Posts: 3815 Location: The best kept secret in TX	Wow!!! IS the Filly going to be rideable at all? How sad! So glad everyone is healing properly tho. ETA: Spelling Edited by IRunOnFaith 2014-08-07 1:53 PM
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CEFERG Reg. Dec 2008	Posted 2014-08-08 2:53 PM Subject: RE: YAY!! Cast Removal Day - Pretty impressed!
Extreme Veteran Posts: 452 Location: Alberta	IRunOnFaith - 2014-08-07 12:53 PM Wow!!! IS the Filly going to be rideable at all? How sad! So glad everyone is healing properly tho. ETA: Spelling We are hoping she will be sound. So far she is a little lame but she's also been confined to a 10x14 stall for 7weeks! Really hoping once we can turn her out in a small pen and she gets moving around that she will be ok. Really hoping this is the end of the injuries!!
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