Quigleyandme
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I’ve had sound advice on this forum before so I have another concern to discuss with you please. I have a huge sixteen month old RID. Think Big Ed without the big ‘ead. I 
Big Ed but I digress. On 12th July Seamus got tangled up in the permanent two strand electric fence and ended up in a dry ditch. He’s been left with a small splint and a bog spavin both of which are cosmetic but this is a young horse so I am a bit gutted about the bog spavin. There is not too much information online about them but I did read in one article that a bog spavin caused by a one-off trauma might resolve itself. So has anyone had one reabsorb or had one drained without it filling up again? I know I got off lightly and could have lost Seamus altogether because I can still see where the wire cut into his elbow and stifle and the skin came away in a ribbon a few weeks later. The fence automatically cut out but didn’t slacken one iota. My lovely fencing contractor left a family funeral to take the tension out of it so I could get Seamus out. He had heat and swelling at the site of the splint and was a bit lame on it for 24 hours but otherwise has remained sound. He is just one of those horses I think. In his short life he has had a hoof abscess burst out through the hoof wall, grew an abscess on his lower jaw, had “Little Seamus” (a cyst full of growing hair and sebum) surgically removed from his shoulder, developed sweet itch and the fence incident. I still love him lots though.
Big Ed but I digress. On 12th July Seamus got tangled up in the permanent two strand electric fence and ended up in a dry ditch. He’s been left with a small splint and a bog spavin both of which are cosmetic but this is a young horse so I am a bit gutted about the bog spavin. There is not too much information online about them but I did read in one article that a bog spavin caused by a one-off trauma might resolve itself. So has anyone had one reabsorb or had one drained without it filling up again? I know I got off lightly and could have lost Seamus altogether because I can still see where the wire cut into his elbow and stifle and the skin came away in a ribbon a few weeks later. The fence automatically cut out but didn’t slacken one iota. My lovely fencing contractor left a family funeral to take the tension out of it so I could get Seamus out. He had heat and swelling at the site of the splint and was a bit lame on it for 24 hours but otherwise has remained sound. He is just one of those horses I think. In his short life he has had a hoof abscess burst out through the hoof wall, grew an abscess on his lower jaw, had “Little Seamus” (a cyst full of growing hair and sebum) surgically removed from his shoulder, developed sweet itch and the fence incident. I still love him lots though.