broken knees :-(

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My poor boy slipped and fell on the road whilst we were hacking yesterday, in walk on a flat road behaving perfectly and just suddenly tripped / slipped falling flat on his face and broke both knees (as in skin - not bone thankfully). :(

Cue an expensive emergency vet call out as I wasn't convinced about one of the wounds, vet arrived within 1/2hr of it happening and fortunately both are superficial although one apparently came within a nats manly bits of a serious injury so counting ourselves lucky.

Now he looks like the tin man from the wizard of Oz with his knees covered in aluspray although thankfully still seems sound and will be in for a few days until the scabs start to form properly.

... anyway onto the question if anybody has experience of this of what is best to use to help the healing & hopefully promote non white hair growth once we've stopped having to use aluspray, any ideas?

I've used derma-gel in the past but it's been a while since I've had to deal with a nasty cut and there might be something better out there now. Should have asked the vet whilst he was out I know but thought there might be some good ideas here then I can give him a call if needs be!

... erm ate all the cookies in my missery of breaking him but if you get in quick I could do you a glass of savignon blanc?!
 
My horse broke both knees open to the bone. Luckily his joints weren't affected.
He had honey dressings on & eventually I just bought a pot of manuka honey +20 and smeared it on when the wounds were closing up. I have vetericyn but don't rate it at all.
 
Oh poor chap! My loan horse got kicked yesterday and has a big open gash above his stifle (again seems to have avoided anything major) he wouldnt stand still even when sedated so vet couldn't do sitches :-/ however today I caught him cantering along after looking very sorry and lame yesterday. Hope your boy heals well and will be following for wound healing potions! Is aluspray the same as silver spray?
 
brighteyes: thanks ;) as best as we can wrap them up there is always an accident that can happen so if it's not on the road it'll be in the field or stable. I tend to think horses are like humans and we're all very unlikely to get to old age without having some marks that we can tell stories about & if we do we probably missed some pretty amazing opportunities!

JJones: ah, manuka honey - knew there was something else at the back of my mind:)

Mandwhy: yep aluspray is the silver stuff that seems to be working nicely to keep it clean although years ago we used to get something similar that sprayed on that was more like a plastic skin, think that seemed stronger but that this is supposed to be antiseptic or something too. Hopefully it will do the trick as he's not too impressed with the sound of it as it's like trying to spray paint him with an aerosol can :D Hope you neddy fixes quickly too :o
 
brighteyes said:
I always hack out with knee boots on my horses. I've seen broken knees.
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Since seeing a horrible case of broken knees as a child we also use boots as a matter of course. Big cob went down on his knees once and judging by the marks on the boots they saved him from serious injury.. and he also was just walking at the time.

Manuka honey is brilliant, you can put it on a nappy and then apply to horse and it also helps if you can feed some at the same time.
 
Better than Manuka Honey is Neem oil. Easier to apply and certainly less messy!

A yearling that injured himself on August has had Neem applied and the wound is nearly closed. Vet said at least Christmas, end of January before it was anything like closed.
The narrower part of the cut is totally healed with very little scar. The other is getting there and although he will be marked it is not going to be as bad as we thought it would.
 
another vote for manuka honey! in june my lad fell and bust one knee open.. was unable to stitch and hsd whole leg bandaged with lots of honey. now it looks nice and neat just a little lump with no white hair at the wound site.. the banadaging was more of an issue than the actual wound..
 
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