Abcess - Poultice

I feel your pain - we had one last year and now seem to have another brewing (at least I hope it is that and nothing worse :)

Last time vet said no more than 4 days for wet/hot poultice (used two a day) and then dry poultice after that as too long in the wet will make hoof too soft. I tubbed until it had stopped producing though.

Not started with wet poultice yet on this new development - just tubbing and packed and wrapped up with epsom salts for now until we see what's going on.
 
Thanks - for that, I hope the farrier will be back out tomorrow to check. This is the second pony with an abcess this year. The last was easy fixed, but this looks more troublesome.

We have had so much wet weather over summer, abcesses galore according to vets and farriers, it is just starting to dry out a bit now.
 
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