sam72431
Well-Known Member
I posted the other day as my horse had a bruised sole or so I thought, my farrier is unfortunately away so I had another farrier look as soon as he lost his shoe as he went very foot sore and big chunk of foot missing so we assumed he must of stood on a large stone after he lost the shoe, this was Friday, the farrier said to hot poultice and pad to draw bruising out and for comfort and keep him in, he said it was a definite stone size bruise but couldn't see any puncture wound! Anyway I've been poulticing and padding not much improvement then yesterday I decided to put arnica gel in the poultice as i know it's good for bruising when I took the poultice and pad off there was loads of black pus and can now see a tiny puncture wound, I've contacted my farrier and he said to continue poulticing and should be fine he is definitely walking much better, what im asking is should I be overly concerned farrier saying not to worry about ringing vet but should I?! He isn't running a temperature and seems fairly happy in himself eating etc just bit fed up being in? Is there another type of poultice I should be using been very lucky in that in the last ten years of horse ownership not really had to deal with abscess so I'm a bit at a lost! Sorry for long post!! Thanks guys!
