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Got to the yard last night and my TB mare appears to have been savaged by a tiger. A huge long curving deep scratch, or cut down her side sitting right where the saddle flap goes - about level with the girth buckles inside. Around 7-8 inches long, half a fingernail wide.

It was quite fresh, hadn't bled much but still very sore looking. She went from little to mahoosive when I was cleaning it etc. Poor thing.

I thought her EMO days were over and she'd stopped her self harming -clearly not.

Two problems, one I can't ride her until its better. It would really hurt and I'm not into that. So another week or two or three or however long off work. Two she'll have another scar.

My girlie has seen her fair share of neglect. She has what I would term horrible scars on her stifles - we don't know how she got them - judging by her acute seperation anxiety I think she tried to escape when left alone in a field and didn't make it. Her hind cannons from an old hunting injury are a mess. She has had rain scald so bad in the past she has 'freckles all over her back' not masses, but enough. She got tangled up in a wind blown branch days after I got her and lacerated her back legs even further. I just don't think she needs another scar.

Is there anything I can do to avoid it - any special lotion or potion? I was thinking bio oil when its healed enough to take it...

Don't ask why I bought her, I don't know myself but there was just no way I was going to leave her where she was... despite what a cow she can be I honestly don't regret it :)
 
Manuka Honey is very popular in Aus for healing, although thas sounds like a difficult place to dress.
 
Any old honey will do it. The action is that of the extremely high sugar concentration, which kills bacteria and draws blood platelets to the wound site to speed healing.

Asda cheapo stuff in a plastic pot is just as good.


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You can put a dressing on an awkward place and keep it clean(ish) by using a lycra anti-rub vest, and safety pinning a nappy under it over the wound. Keeps it nice and humid, so heals quicker.

My boy's shoulder wound was down to the bone, and scarring is minimal. Good luck!
 
Will I turn her into a horse flavour lollipop if I use honey at this time of year? Last night all I used was diluted dettol - as a wash, purple spray - as a 2nd disinfectant, then smothered it in wound powder. I know from my Mum's hand op last year wet or moist healing reduces scar tissue so was planning on getting some sudocreme or metanium tonight? Not sure of those on an open wound though?

Forgive my idiocy but how do I use honey, literally slather it on? Do I need to put something over or is it OK on its own. Sadly it's just a little too far back for the anti-rub bib not to rub it...

My daughter was with me last night and said, in all innocence, 'Mum, how many vetwraps are we going to need to go all the way around her' :D
 
We once by chance washed a cut-through-to-the-structures knee with water with a hint of garlic (water taken to field in an old garlic tub)on a bay roan with black stockings for 3 weeks. Her hair grew back just as black as ever and you couldn't see any difference from the other knee after a few months.
 
horsemadmum1 said:
Please don't use purple spray or wound powder. Neither are suitable. Sounds like the vet should have seen it maybe?
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It wasn't vet worthy, there was nothing to stitch. Believe me I'm talking to my vet so often lately I'm thinking of having a direct line put in... Its a nasty graze I think done on the hedge, reaching up then draging back - as it looks like a gouge.

Do you have a wound cream you recommend? It needs to be thick, but on the flip side not melt in the sun either. Its the awkwardness of the position really. If it had been a leg I'd have bandaged it.

My medical kit (I have come to see) is seemingly all for leg and hoof problems. What do you do for sides? :rolleyes:
 
shmoo said:
Forgive my idiocy but how do I use honey, literally slather it on? Do I need to put something over or is it OK on its own. Sadly it's just a little too far back for the anti-rub bib not to rub it...
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lol.

Yes - scoop your hand into the jar and slop it on! Yukky, especially if your hand is then covered in blood / pus / tissue... Best to have a bit of old straw handy to wip it off!

I would try to cover it if you can. Partly to keep it moist and clean, and also so she doesn't become an ant-magnet.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
We once by chance washed a cut-through-to-the-structures knee with water with a hint of garlic (water taken to field in an old garlic tub)on a bay roan with black stockings for 3 weeks. Her hair grew back just as black as ever and you couldn't see any difference from the other knee after a few months.
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You know now I read this I think I have heard something similar once and it's loitering in the back of my brain... I'll def wash it off with this first tonight - I didn't think though... its going to grow back white isn't it... :(

No stables where we are. She's a panic attack waiting to happen in one anyway and tries to climb out.

I'm going to buy a great big roll of bubble wrap !
 
Someone on this forum, possibly on the vet section, posted pictures of their horse which had a horrific injury on a gate I think. Whatever it was she used it healed really well with minimal scarring.

Sorry to be so vague.
 
If it is only a scratch and isn't bleeding I would pop some aloe vera gel on it, it will help the hair grow back and not attract flies.
 
I believe Manuka honey is really good but it has to be medical grade honey which is a wee bit more expensive x
 
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