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Location: Arkansas | My 6 yr. Old mare was diagnosed with this in her front left foot today. The vet is getting a second opinion from a surgeon at the University of Missouri named Dr. Joanne Kramer whether to try & treat with Baytril first or if she needs surgery. You can see the hole in her coffin bone on the xray. |
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Location: Arkansas | Bumping up this morning. Has anyone else dealt with this? |
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| If you were talking about a horse that you were considering purchasing, I would say absolutely not. However, since this is a horse you already own, and if you can afford to, I guess you do whatever they say can give the mare a shot at being sound. Years ago, like 15 years ago I was looking at a gelding that failed a pre-purchase due to pedal osteitis and the vet said he'd be a money-pit to try to keep sound and still possibly never actually be sound. There are probably many more options available now days, though...Baytril being one of them, I think...not sure about that. Good luck and keep us posted! |
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| What is Baytril? |
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| I ran a solid 1d horse until he was 25 who was diagnosed at Age 5. Just kept him shod with aluminum pads on both front feet. He was just fine. Baytril I believe is an antibiotic. |
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Location: Arkansas | Thanks all. Yes Baytril is a high power antibiotic to kill the infection. The only reason to operate would be if what is showing on the coffin bone in the xray needs to be removed. She is consulting with a surgeon regarding that. I am certainly hoping for Baytril & shoes. She was born on our place & is a very special mare. She was still running her heart out while hurting & we thought she had white line disease. We will do whatever is best for her. |
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| I have 2 with pedal osteitis. Both were on track. One we just keep shod and use sole paint. The other we have in pour on pads and shod. I think there are varying degrees and mine was caught in early stage. It is more common than most people are aware and it's typically caused from being worked on hard surfaces. We live on hard terrain and I think that contributes as well |
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| The horse my vet recommended we not buy had what he called pedal osteitis of the type he called "road Founder" due to being run/rode on really hard ground a lot. I think there are different causes for pedal osteitis and it's according to the cause and damage done as to what the outlook is. |
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Location: Arkansas | This horse has never been worked hard on hard ground. We long trot a lot in the pasture and I have a sandy arena area where we work barrels etc... she has had some SI issues for several years and seems to me like she pounds her front end harder than my other horses though. I think it is from a sole puncture or sole bruise because when she first started limping in the pasture several months ago I took her to my vet & he said she had an abcess or maybe white line disease. The spot on coffin bone on the xray is directly above the hole in her sole which the current vet I'm taking her to doesn't think is a coincidence and also says its definitely not white line...so maybe the coffin bone issue caused the abcess/hole or vice versa...that is why we are getting the opinion of a surgeon. Also her soles are soft, you can move them with pressure from your thumbs & fairly flat footed... |
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| I had one, about 15 years ago. The pain caused her to be just a wicked witch - dangerous. I ended up putting her down, had never heard of the baytril treatment at that time. |
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| i used to ride a horse that had this and it was on isoxoprine high dose and it stayed pretty sound on that and corrective shoeing.. which was bar shoes and equipak pads |
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