Devil mare has bone spavin...

[GinGin2]

Devil mare went lame on her right-fore the week before last The vet came out and put her on Bute and 24hr box rest for 1 week. After the week she was still slightly lame so she went to the clinic for a lameness work out. The morning I took her she was almost back to normal on that leg, but really lame in her left-hind - this was last wednesday,

Just spoken to the vets again again after 4/5 days of flexion tests, nerve blocks, x-rays, local anaesthetics.... she can come home today... with arthritis in her hocks..... she is having a steroid injection today and then rests for 2 days. Then I have to exercise her to see how she responds.

Totally gutted. Only had her 3 1/2 months (did her previous owners know about this and sell her whilst on steroids????).

Had made the decision to sell her as we just aren't clicking... well that's not going to happen now....

Totally f***ed off.

 

[Bounty]

B*gger. Know how you feel as my mare went on box rest for something unrelated, and came out with bone spavin symptoms - in her case we think there are other issues alongside the spavins as well, but that they were always lurking prior to the box rest and it was the sudden limiting of movement that caused them to seize up.
Bl**dy animals!
If treated and managed effectively and sympathetically they're not the end of the world, though she won't be worth as much she should still be saleable once they spavins have fused.

 

[angiebaby]

Know how you feel too, mine's just had 4 weeks box rest for a sprained fetlock. Its left him with windgall on right hind.

Waiting for vet to arrive any minute to see if he's still lame, I won't hold my breath, but fingers crossed

 

[debbielinder]

dont be to disheartened tho as she may well make a 100% recovery as mine did

 

[keeperscottage]

I bought Piper for my then 15 year old daughter three years ago. As he was only six and money at that time was tight, I didn't bother to have him vetted - the first time since 1972 that I'd bought a horse without having it vetted! BIG mistake! After a week or so, he was lame behind. Vet suspected a spavin from Day 1, but I should have waited before calling out my vet because the upshot was that the 14 day exclusion on my insurance was still ongoing and I ended up paying £5,000 vet bills as he'd gone lame "too soon" after the start of my insurance! On the plus side, he had surgery on his hock to "fuse" the small joints together, thus eliminating pain. He was rested at grass for over six months, but has been completely sound ever since. Initially, prior to surgery, my vet put him on bute and told us to work him, the idea being that working him (painfree) should cause the joints to fuse naturally, but they didn't. Thankfully, we now have a wonderfully sound 9 year old who is on almost certainly permenant loan to a friend. We'd never sell him, and my friend loves him to bits..........a happy ending! What I'm saying is that spavins aren't a death sentence - there is lots of light at the end of the tunnell!