Coronary band injury and hoof loss help - also in vets

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Horse going to lose 1/4 of her hoof - help!?



Hi.

Quick background-
A couple of weeks ago my horse had an accident where she got her hind leg stuck in a cattle grid. After a few terrifying minutes she got it out, leaving her with a lot of cuts and bruising, including a very deep wound on the outside of her cannon bone.

The farrier and vet were there yesterday and now that the wound is healing well our focus has turned to her coronary band where there is a deep slice above it. On closer inspection by the farrier the wound has gone into the coronary band. Farrier has said that we just have to wait and see what happens but he thinks that as it grows out there will be a deep crack and eventually the hoof will break off. The wound is from where the coronary band meets the heel to 1/4 of the way around the hoof.

Has anyone out there dealt with losing part of the hoof - farrier has said that he can make a bit of hoof whilst it grows out/ can use hoof boots etc but it will probably take at least 10/11 months for it to be anywhere near normal again.

Currently I am using seawater to clean the wound, lathering with Botanica(as recommended by vet), and keeping the hooves as moist as possible with NAF hoof moist. Recommendations for keeping hooves moist welcome!

Just really looking for others experience, how they dealt with it and how long it took to get right.

Thanks in advance.
 
Do you have any photos?

I Would be doing as you're doing re the wound / scar tissue, keeping the wounded coronet moisturised and massaging it will help stimulate new growth.

The hoof moist will more than likely do NAFF all seeing as the hoof that you are moisturising has already grown.

It may be worth putting her on a good quality hoof supplement like Pro hoof from progressive Earth on ebay - It may seem expensive but it is worth the money! to ensure the new horn that grows down is of good quality.

She may well be left with a weakness there but it shouldn't cause her too many problems. A friends mare has a split right down one of her front hooves due to a wire injury to the same area and she is sound and working well.
 
Time wise, your farrier is about right but you can help it by feeding a decent supplement; in very similar circumstances although these were caused by no farrier for almost a year before I bought her. I used Formulae4Feet without telling my farrier and he couldn't believe how quickly and healthily the crack (which had damaged the coronet band that there was a definite large dip in it from an old injury) and horn were repairing. I also used Cornucrescine on the coronet band which should help to stimulate the area. It still took about 9 months but we went from these
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to these with monthly trims along the way although they're quite hard to see I'm afraid. You'd never know now and her horn is excellent.

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Hi, one of my horses, managed to kick off literally half her hood travelling, there was alot of blood!! but as far as I remember no damage to coronary band as still some hoof there. She wasn't shod behind anyway, it was a few years back and I'm pretty sure the vet and farrier said could take up to 9-12 months to fully grow back. We gave her the top spec hoof supplement and I think within 3 months we were back out competing. I lost my phone with the pictures on it, but vets hadn't seen anything like it before or prop since, they where all very impressed with the growth, I was meant to put cornocrestante (sp) on it but never did. I think the recommendation is still on the top spec adverts.
 
One of mine had an overreach injury before I got her. She literally took most one one of the heel bulbs off. It was all stitched and healed fine, but left her with a permanent crack coming from the coronary band down to the floor at about 1/4 of the way around her foot. It never grew out, but never caused an issue while she was shod. She had some time off work and I took her shoes off and two hays later than rear quarter of the foot literally fell away leaving a very lame mare. Turns out the shoes were masking how deep that crack went and holding it all together
 
Thanks for replies so far.

Zoon-sounds very similar to yours.

Farrier has advised no added hoof growth supplements yet and what to see what nature does as it may not come away.
 
One of my OH's customers youngster got its foot caught under a field shelter (god knows how), pulled its hoof up and sliced half off. It was two, the wound was done very cleanly.. Owner said happy to leave her be for a year and after a year the hoof had regrown without much of an issue.
Until it did it again a year later.. I believe the field shelter is now fire wood.

He has photos somewhere, but that's the general jist of the story.. Fingers crossed it works out ok for you & your horse.

Ps) do you have any pictures? My oh would be interested to take a look I expect:)
 
Haven't quite worked out how to get pictures up on this yet! But will look into it.

To be honest there isn't much to see on the coronary band wound - it is still very swollen tissue, and the farrier had to prise it away slightly to see how deep the slice had gone, which is maybe a couple of mm.

Did the youngster damage the coronary band at all? or just the bottom half of the hoof, i.e was it sliced off vertically or horizontally?

But yes, I will try and get some pics up soon!
 
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