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  Snake Charmer
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Location: Texas | This mare somehow managed to get her leg hung in between the stall door, and the stall wall, all 1/2" of it, and ended up pulling her foot off. The leg was not broken, just pulled off. When I ran out to help the hoof was on the outside of the stall, wedged up against the latch. We think she probably got cast in her stall and did this trying to get up. Needless to say she was put down. Sadly she belonged to a young girl.
Even the vet said he'd never seen anything like it. So sad!
Edited by acheela 2015-12-22 3:07 PM
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| I don't see a picture but I'm so sorry! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Please dont post pictures of this... |
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| I can't see a picture - but have had this happen before. Young mare got her foot between the block foundation and tin side of a run in shelter. When she pulled the leg out it basically scalped the hoof off and left the bone and all the remaining tissue intact. We cast the foot and gave pain support - The vet felt that if she would eat and not develop laminitis we could possibly make her pasture sound. She finally could not tolerate the pain and we humanely put her down on day 3. She had been eating and drinking up to this point.
We found out that she had actually fractured that ankle as a weanling and had pins placed there for repair. Apparently that affected the blood flow to the hoof - The cut would have been manageable- we found the hoof.
Now I vet check everything - because who would have though a weanling would have had a fracture surgically repaired.
Prayers for the owner- as it is very frightening to see the aftermath. |
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| How awful, so,sorry |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Call me morbid, but I'd be interested in seeing it. I've never heard of anything like that. Sending prayers for the little girl. |
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 Toastest with the Mostest
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Location: That part of Texas | This reminds me of what happened to Fallon Taylor's horse Chuck Taylor when he got hurt in a barbed wire fence, practically pulled his hoof off and they went through a long process of trying to bring him back. I can't find the story on Youtube but it was interesting all of the things she did to give him the best shot at any meaningful recovery. |
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Location: North Dakota | Oh my goodness. How horrible. Makes it even worse it's right before Christmas.
I must be morbid too. I'm kind of medically interested to see it; especially since the vet said they've never seen anything like it.
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The Advice Guru
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| I have a mare who sloughed off both feet due to founder, feet do grow back.
I would be worried about collateral ligaments
Also you need to harden up the lamania, my vet did this by applying 1% iodine at the beginning! then gradually increased to 5%.
A horse can walk on hard lamania.
If you don't already get soft rides, you really need to protect the other foot as with the weight redistribution she is at a risk of foundering on the good foot.
If you want you can message me, and I can go into more depth on what we did and continue to do.
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Location: Texas | cheryl makofka - 2015-12-22 3:52 PM
I have a mare who sloughed off both feet due to founder, feet do grow back.
I would be worried about collateral ligaments
Also you need to harden up the lamania, my vet did this by applying 1% iodine at the beginning! then gradually increased to 5%.
A horse can walk on hard lamania.
If you don't already get soft rides, you really need to protect the other foot as with the weight redistribution she is at a risk of foundering on the good foot.
If you want you can message me, and I can go into more depth on what we did and continue to do.
At the bottom of the post the OP stated the horse was put down.
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Snake Charmer
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Location: Texas | My phone wouldn't let me post pics, but if you would like pics you can pm me. |
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Snake Charmer
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Location: Texas | No,not here was no saving this horse. The entire lower portion of her leg, starting at the ankle, was pulled off the cannon bone. The bone was through the skin. There was no was this horse could have been saved. |
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Snake Charmer
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Location: Texas | I'm sorry, I must not have been clear. The hoof wasn't pulled off, the entire portion of her leg from the ankle down was dislocated and pulled away from the cannon bone. The leg was degloved to the knee. The leg was literally mutilated.
Edited by acheela 2015-12-22 7:02 PM
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Location: California | Wow... all I can say to the photos I just saw. That poor animal and poor girl who had to deal with that. |
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| I don't know why but I have thought of this happening. My mom has a made that likes to paw and she has had both feet cut within 4 months of each other. She was out in the pasture, but we brought her up so she would quit cutting herself. I have no idea where she keeps doing it, but the others never have a problem. *knock on wood* I'm scared one day I'll go out and she will have cut her foot off. She's in a run in lot so maybe now she will stay out of trouble.
To the op, I'm sorry. It would be very hard to deal with this situation. I'm going to send prayers your way and again I'm sorry about your horse. |
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Snake Charmer
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Location: Texas | Thank you for the prayers, but this, thankfully, was not my horse. |
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Location: California | Okay here are the photos... be prepared
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Pictures were very eye opening to say the least. Hard to imagine such an injury. |
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Location: Alberta Canada | O my, prayers for the little girl!! |
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