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Location: Silver Lake, MN | I healed up a mare with a leg wound to the bone as well. I consulted with Dr. Jolly and he was awesome, he specializes in wounds like this. Mine healed up in a few months and I finally quit wrapping it after about 3 months and it did heal up with a small scar. I used the quick derm product to heal her up. |
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Location: Idaho | Underwood's horse medicine! Knew a mare who fell out of a trailer going 60 mph on a freeway. She had holes galore, road rash, proud flesh everywhere. Underwood's did wonders, a year later you couldn't even tell she fell out of that trailer. All of her wounds were closed with hair grown back. |
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Location: Durango CO | DashNDustem - 2017-02-13 1:44 PM
Underwood's horse medicine! Knew a mare who fell out of a trailer going 60 mph on a freeway. She had holes galore, road rash, proud flesh everywhere. Underwood's did wonders, a year later you couldn't even tell she fell out of that trailer. All of her wounds were closed with hair grown back.
How the hello did that happen, did she ever have trailer issues? |
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Location: Arkansas | cutnrunqhmt - 2017-02-12 10:17 PM
I have high tensile poly covered wire which has always been pretty safe and not real sure why she ended up in the fence but the tensioner is what cut her. It scared me to death when I saw it, I called the vet and told him he was probably going to have to put her down but she could walk just fine. It still looks terrible and very large but hopefully I can get some progress again now that it isnt' below zero everyday.
I would have been scared too, Lord have mercy. Glad she's doing better.
Everyone with their pictures and stories are making me thankful for (only) the small boo boos we have.
Edited by Chandler's Mom 2017-02-13 9:55 PM
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | DashNDustem - 2017-02-13 2:44 PM Underwood's horse medicine! Knew a mare who fell out of a trailer going 60 mph on a freeway. She had holes galore, road rash, proud flesh everywhere. Underwood's did wonders, a year later you couldn't even tell she fell out of that trailer. All of her wounds were closed with hair grown back.
Wow, how did something like this happen?
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| Consulted with vet again, and they want to do another set of xrays to see if there is anything in there that might have been missed the first time around. Ugh.
She is now on individual turnout and doing hand walking in the evenings, also started using Dermagel. I have heard good things about Underwoods, but the Dermagel was able to get here faster so I will give it a try first. |
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| Is there proud flesh that she keeps bumping and that is what breaks it open? Just a thought.
Last summer my mare cut her head open right between the tip of her head and her ear. It was about an inch, inch and half long and wasn't to deep. I probably would have had the vet try to stitch it, but my mom didn't tell me about it until the next day so it was to late. It abcessed behind her other ear, and just would not heal, so after 3 rounds of pennicillin I took her to the vet, and she had chipped her skull when she cut it, but it wasn't cut where the chips were! It was really weird and we are lucky she didn't kill herself. We had to wait until she was over 100 days bred and she had surgery, doesn't even have a scar now.
I would have an xray done to make sure something didn't get missed.
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Location: North Dakota | I can't see the pics-for whatever reason....anyway, with hard to close wounds sometimes I think we don't let the body do enough. I like furacin (eek-says the masses) but you can use triple antibiotic ointment-basically something to keep the wound moist. I start with 15 minutes cold hosing and then a warm water scrub-with either iodine or nolvasan scrub-until the wound starts to weep blood and all the scabs are gone (at least 90% of them) dry the wound place a heavy layer of furacin-a non stick pad(s) then a no bows wrap or two depending on the size of the wound and then either polos (if they stay on) or vet wrap-leave that on for at least 2-3 days-I want that wound to stink when I open it-for the first few weeks-then repeat the cold hose-scrub process-there will be a time where the wound will not have so much "gunk" on it and you will be able to cold hose and scrub lightly but always put the oinment on the wound and wrap-until just putting the ointment on keeps the edges soft and pliable. I have healed up some ugly stuff like that-both at the vet clinic I worked for and at home-these things are hands on type situations and take a lot of work-but it's amazing how much they will heal up. |
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