Bared Wire/Wire Injuries (Photo Request)

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Hello, I've made a post in the photo gallery, I really need some photos of injuries, cuts and damage done by bared, chicken, etc wire. I need to prove a point about how dangerous the stuff is to horses to some one.

Thank-you
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If i get a chance i will do one for you but unfortunately it is well heeled now.

This is the story!

Our lovely neighbour decided he didnt want our horses eating his grass under the fence (because he wanted to rent out is 1/4 acre paddock for a horse. Idiot!) so put up rusty barbed wire about 6 inches off the ground on his side of the fence. Nothing we could do as electric fencing was not easily available 30 years ago!

My then 2 year old put his foot over it and ripped his heel open. The vets were rubbish and it healed into a proud lump. About every 6 weeks he would catch the lump and need several weeks off. He lived in over reach boots but they only gave so much protection. This went on for 8 years. Then we moved here and had to contend with sheepwire until we could afford to get the fencing sorted. He caught the lump and virtually took it off. The better vet cut the lump off and we had to pressure bandage for 3 months. By this time Dermobian had been invented LOL!! This sometimes required bandaging 4 times a day as he removed them!! LOL!!You know horses!!
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I got through at least 4 bandages a day too. The local tackshops had none left in the end!!
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Vetrap wasnt available either!!

After 3 months the wound healed flat and has rarely caused a problem since. He is now 30. However tell your friend it was a bloody nightmare from start to finish because an idiot decided to put barbed wire on our post and rail.

I dont like sheepwire but would have it in preference to barbed wire. Just tell your friend they could have a big farrier bill for pulled off shoes. I also have found a horse with shoe caught in sheepwire.

The only positive thing that came out of it is that I am damn good at bandaging the hoof!!!
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Don't know if these are any help - not 100% sure how she did it, but the only obvious thing was on the wire fence. Luckily no lasting damage!

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There was a horrific one on Fugly horse of the day blog recently. I was convinced it was photoshopped - yuck.

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This is what my youngster did on the gate hinge if that counts. She had 38 stitches including dissolvable ones to stitch the layers of muscles. She had a hole right through to her breastbone and luckily it has healed with a two inch scar only.
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O.M.G hatters
Thats some pic on that forum of that poor horses leg, and it healed so well, how the hell did his let get like that???
 
I know, I am not usually bothered by graphic pictures - but that turned my stomach.

Apparently done on barbed wire fencing, havent read all the thread though.
 
i don't have any pictures but do have some horror stories about fencing.
1st is about a horse who got caught on a plain bit of wire and took his foot clean off.
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2nd is about a pony and sheep wire. he got his foot stuck through it. struggled to get free and fell. he fell onto a rock and snapped his hind leg clean in half.
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the 1st 1 was happened to my boss' friends horse. the 2nd 1 was not mine but i was the 1 who found him and helped him up, only to discover his leg
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I don't have pics but I lost my Henry to an injury caused by a barbed wire fence. He had sweet itch and was paranoid about flies - I had elec fenced off what I thought was all the wire, but I can only asume he kicked out at a fly as he was found in the field with two long cuts to his pastern which vets were pretty sure was wire. He was taken to hospital where they found he had cut his tendon sheath but not the tendon, but the tendon sheath was infected. He spent a month and 3 operations in hospital to try to get it sorted and we lost the battle and he was PTS. I learnt the wire lesson the hard way, even though I thought I had fenced it all off
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