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Location: Southeastern Idaho | Ok, I thought I would post what my life revolved around from April of 2013 to October of same year and add the vote for wrapping a leg wound. I found my yearling colt in the pasture with the cut shown below. This was 3 hours after I had seen him last so I knew it was freshly done. Still unsure what exactly happened. I scoured that pasture looking for the culprit but couldn't find damage or blood anywhere and the yearling and pony that were pastured with him were giving me the innocent look.
Called the vet immediately, he told me to wrap the wound loosely (to keep it clean) and he would be here ASAP. Once he arrived we spent the next 2 hours sewing this thing up. My vet is quite a seamstress. He wrapped the wound and told me that if the stitches held I should only need to wrap it for a few days. Ha ha... Dually was never lame on this leg, kind of wish he was, so the stitches lasted maybe 2 days. I decided to keep it wrapped 1- because the wound was so big 2 - placement of the wound (it was gaping and proud flesh).
I used Telfa non stick pads soaked in Schrieners Herbal solution and 1 full co-flex (blue) wrap every other day. When proud flesh seemed to be getting ahead of me I would mix meat tenderizer with furocine ointment (I think any ointment would do, I just happened to have this jar that was not being used) to make a thick paste. Smeared it on the Telfa pads and wrapped it up and left that bandage on for 2-3 days. Then went back to the Schrieners. From April to October this was our ordeal. Good news is, his leg looks great and he is a doll to handle. I think it will be hardly noticeable when he is 4 or 5. The last picture has the hair discolored due to dandruff and dead hair....no hair discoloration from the long term bandaging at all.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Looks great now  , I know what you have gone threw, been there myself, seens like the wound has to get worst befor you start seeing an inprovement. You did a good job.   |
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| Meat tenderizer? |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I won't wrap stitches, but whatever you did it looks like it was the right thing! Glad he is ok! For myself, I try to never wrap unless it is absolutely necessary. I'm not sure how I would have handled your guy but like I said, it looks like you did/have done great!! |
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Location: Kentucky | Meat tenderizer will do the same thing granulex will do. It will help to remove and not allow proud flesh to form. I have used it at different times. You just don't want to get the salted meat tenderizer.
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Location: Southeastern Idaho | Thanks you guys! Yes, I immediately saw the error of my ways when wrapping the stitches!!!!!!!!!!!! My excuse....the vet told me to! :) But really, I think I caused a wreck there, those things came out so fast it was scary. So I was locked into wrapping this sucker if I wanted to salvage any value out of this young gelding and I am pretty happy with how it turned out. My vet is a comedian - he was out preg checking my mare and looked at this leg (in September) "that turned out better than I thought it would" he says. He was all smiles and "it'll be ok" when it happened.
Yes on the non salted Meat Tenderizer...dang hard to find in a small town. So he had salted for a day or two until I could make the treck to a town with a bigger selection. Didn't seem to bother him, but like I said, he was never lame on the leg at all. So I am not sure he would have noticed much. |
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Location: Here | luvropin - 2014-01-16 5:45 PM Thanks you guys! Yes, I immediately saw the error of my ways when wrapping the stitches!!!!!!!!!!!! My excuse....the vet told me to! :) But really, I think I caused a wreck there, those things came out so fast it was scary. So I was locked into wrapping this sucker if I wanted to salvage any value out of this young gelding and I am pretty happy with how it turned out. My vet is a comedian - he was out preg checking my mare and looked at this leg (in September) "that turned out better than I thought it would" he says. He was all smiles and "it'll be ok" when it happened. Yes on the non salted Meat Tenderizer...dang hard to find in a small town. So he had salted for a day or two until I could make the treck to a town with a bigger selection. Didn't seem to bother him, but like I said, he was never lame on the leg at all. So I am not sure he would have noticed much.
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Location: Southeastern Idaho | SG. - 2014-01-16 4:58 PM
luvropin - 2014-01-16 5:45 PM Thanks you guys! Yes, I immediately saw the error of my ways when wrapping the stitches!!!!!!!!!!!! My excuse....the vet told me to! :) But really, I think I caused a wreck there, those things came out so fast it was scary. So I was locked into wrapping this sucker if I wanted to salvage any value out of this young gelding and I am pretty happy with how it turned out. My vet is a comedian - he was out preg checking my mare and looked at this leg (in September) "that turned out better than I thought it would" he says. He was all smiles and "it'll be ok" when it happened. Yes on the non salted Meat Tenderizer...dang hard to find in a small town. So he had salted for a day or two until I could make the treck to a town with a bigger selection. Didn't seem to bother him, but like I said, he was never lame on the leg at all. So I am not sure he would have noticed much.
You sure did a great job on it
Thank you! All of you that have been through this know how hard it is to keep going! I do have to give the colt a lot of credit, he was an angel to work on. If he was bear about it I wouldn't imagine it would look so good. I didn't have to tie him up or even catch him by the end. Must be that LSOF disposition. |
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| Pickling lime will fix proud flesh. |
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Location: Randolph, Utah | That looked terrible! You did a fabulous job with it!! Glad he healed so well!! |
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| GOOD JOB!!
I had my good mare do this last year in Feb. The patience to keep it wrapped and deal with it daily is hard to find when the temperatures suck. Way to stick with it!
I have also found that baking powder works well on proud flesh too. |
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | I know how much work an injury like that is. Great job and glad your boy healed nicely!
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Location: stray dump capital of the world | Wow!!!! So glad you posted the after! That was nasty looking. Glad that it turned out so nicely. |
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| All I have to say is: :0
Good job mama!! Very, very devoted. My mom has this type of devotion to injuries, and has the same incredible results. That took you a lot of commitment, patience, and time! Applause! |
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| Great job, good doctoring!!! Thanks for sharing what you did. |
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Location: Kansas | Wow ick! Looks great now! |
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Location: Southeastern Idaho | I pretty much freaked out when I found him standing way too quietly in the middle of the pasture. My poor vet......  I really wanted to show this for anyone who does happen to have my bad luck and get a serious wound...they can heal nicely. It does take work daily but its worth it in the end.
Edited by luvropin 2014-01-17 8:06 AM
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | You did a fantastic job! Kudos |
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