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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | get yourself some honey (pure unpasterized honey) and some dam good anitbiotics.....i just had a mare go around with our long horn bull and he got her in the guts....and i have used honey on it and the results are unreal, i used a diaper and wrapped it..........that leg would be so much easier to wrap than my mares belly....good luck and i know its hard to see the end at this point but it can be amazing what horses can pull through....
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Location: "...way down south in the Everglades..." | Wow - that is a bad one! That is just depressing as can be...my accident prone one just did something similar last weekend on the field fence...I was truly sick as she was just healing up from a different injury that had her laid up for 3 months now she got herself on the back of her pastern and took a huge piece of heel/hoof off too along with the deep cut/hanging skin and blood everywhere. It seems like everytime I got her up and running good she'd go and hurt herself...drive me nuts so I feel your pain. Hope your guy heals up and sooo sorry to see you going through this :-( Sending well wishes your way!! |
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Location: North Dakota | mruggles - 2015-08-24 12:09 PM get yourself some honey (pure unpasterized honey) and some dam good anitbiotics.....i just had a mare go around with our long horn bull and he got her in the guts....and i have used honey on it and the results are unreal, i used a diaper and wrapped it..........that leg would be so much easier to wrap than my mares belly....good luck and i know its hard to see the end at this point but it can be amazing what horses can pull through....
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I have heard the honey route. I'm a little scared to try it this early when the bone is still exposed. Maybe wait until the bone is at least covered??
He is on doxycycline. I'm giving it to him twice a day, as per the vet instructions. I have to load it into a syringe and give it to him b/c he won't eat it. However, he doesn't seem to mind the applesauce I am mixing it with, so that's a good thing!
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Location: Silver Lake, MN | I healed one up that cut down to her bone the whole length of her cannon bone...she has a scar but she is sound and back to barrels. I consulted Dr. Jolly and followed his instructions to a T used the QuickDerm product which I now keep on hand at all times. It was a lot of work but can be done. |
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| I have seen this before. If you have a smooth wire fence that is lower to the ground and something makes them kick, when they retract their legs it slices them just like that. |
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Location: Broxton, Ga | ME AND DEE - 2015-08-23 5:08 PM
I have seen this before. If you have a smooth wire fence that is lower to the ground and something makes them kick, when they retract their legs it slices them just like that.
Agree I had high tensile wire fence my mare was kicking out at horse flies sliced her back leg same as yours and to the bone. Hence I will never use high tensile wire again. We used the 7 day bandages/ wrap for nearly 9 months and she did return to complete soundness and running barrels. |
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| We had a mare come through the clinic a few years ago. She got strung up bad in a high tensile fence. She healed up fantastically with diligent care on the owners part.
Edit to add - She's 100% sound to ride, also. We use vetricyn.
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Clean it up and put raw egg whites on it. It will keep it from scaring and heal faster.use a pant leg to cover as you can pull it up high and tape and down to the hoof for full coverage. So sorry this happed. |
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Location: North Dakota | Oh my goodness FlyingHigh! I thought Red's was bad for "showing bone". That's terrible.
Just an FYI to those who are mentioning it: He was not kept in high tensile wire.
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| r_beau - 2015-08-25 10:52 AM
Oh my goodness FlyingHigh! I thought Red's was bad for "showing bone". That's terrible.
Just an FYI to those who are mentioning it: He was not kept in high tensile wire.
I wasn't assuming he was, but that's what happned to that mare and she made a full recovery and was back in a full workout schedule in only 16 months. Now she runs competitively again, barely even notice the scar on her leg. So as long as you take good care of him and work hard with your vet, hopefully he'll make a great recovery too! |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | My daughters jackpot gelding was just as bad and he healed up fine and you can just see a little line in his hair. We used Corona's cow salve. It has bee's wax in it so it never dries out. What ever you use never let the skin dry as that is what caused scar tissue. |
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Location: Northern MN | Wow...I don't know that I could doctor that...I can hardly look either!! Best of luck to you!! |
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Location: Northern MN | FlyingHigh1454 - 2015-08-24 11:46 PM We had a mare come through the clinic a few years ago. She got strung up bad in a high tensile fence. She healed up fantastically with diligent care on the owners part. Edit to add - She's 100% sound to ride, also. We use vetricyn.
I have never seen anything like that...Amazing that she is sound!! Awesome Care!! |
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| That's an ugly wound, but it will heal up fine if you are diligent. I would use sugardine on that for now. It is great at keeping out infection and soothing to the wound. Doesn't sting or burn. I've had wounds that were nasty infected and in about 4 days looked amazing. Keep her antibiotic doses as consistent timewise as you can. That will keep the drug levels as even as possible. Good luck! |
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Location: North Dakota | Yup, he's consistently getting the antibiotic at about 7 AM before work and again at 6:30-7:00 PM when I get done with work.
I'm watching that skin flap oh so close, and just praying that it doesn't die! 
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Location: on my horse | r_beau - 2015-08-26 9:18 AM
Yup, he's consistently getting the antibiotic at about 7 AM before work and again at 6:30-7:00 PM when I get done with work.
I'm watching that skin flap oh so close, and just praying that it doesn't die!
another thing to check is if there's an irrigation ditch or pipe in the pasture. One of my friends' horses did a similar number on a hind leg on a concrete irrigation pipe just skinned himself to the bone.
Quoting this reply because I didn't want to go find the initial picture and look at it again )= I'm so sorry you've got both horses down and out. With your diligence and your vet's help I'm sure you'll get him healed up well. |
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Location: Arkansas | r_beau - 2015-08-26 10:18 AM
Yup, he's consistently getting the antibiotic at about 7 AM before work and again at 6:30-7:00 PM when I get done with work.
I'm watching that skin flap oh so close, and just praying that it doesn't die!
I thought about you and your guy this afternoon. . . My son called me while I was fixing feed and wanted to know when we were coming to the barn----told him about 15 minutes and asked why. He said "bring cream, Faci is bleeding on his back leg." Long story short, Chandler was on his pond levee and two of the horses wouldn't move for him. These horses have been in this situation thousands of times, but for some reason when C honked, Faci kicked the winch on the front of the truck with both feet. (Just can't make y'all know how out of character this is for this horse.) Somehow he skinned both his hocks (back of them) pretty good. Took whole layer of skin off about 5 inches long on right leg and about 2 inches wide on left leg. (Even left hide on the winch.) It was nothing near as bad as your boy's leg, but I still could have cried. So sending more prayers your way cause I know how worried I am about mine, and I know you have more issues to deal with on your injury. |
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Location: Northern MN | Just thinking about this horse and wondering how is it doing?
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Location: Sunny So Cal | oh no oh no oh no!!! I'm so sorry!! sending positive vibes and a speedy recovery. I would start him on some NutraWOUND asap! praying |
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Location: North Dakota | Red's doing well. Had him to the vet last week to clean up around the skin flap, since it did NOT survive.
Vet was very impressed with how it looked, 2 weeks out. And I am too. It's really filled in good already. We even had to knock a little bit of it back with some hydrocortisone.
I am watching the spot above the bone to make sure it heals and isn't a gaping hole and oozing ... which would indicate we have a fragmented piece of bone. But so far so good. We'll see tonight when I change his bandage.
It's also promising that he tries to trot ahead of me when I lead him out to hand-eat some grass each night. Doesn't seem to bother him in the slightest! So I am hoping he will heal 100% sound.
This was day 14.
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