Shantor1
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Day off, so had a small lie in! I received a telephone call from YO saying my old gelding, Shandy, had got cast and stuck. We guess he'd been there a few hours. She'd arrived at yard by 7.45 am. I got there 10 mins later. We had to summon male muscle and with rope we managed to pull him away from door. He got up with us steadying him and was wobbly. I called the vet. He seemed shaken and sore and gave him some homeopathy. Didnt feed him. My vet checked him plus heart and lungs OK, no injuries but we think he's pulled a muscle, so need to get physio. He ate his feed up OK and then got grumpy with stable mate! Relieved!
I fed my younger, horse who is in the next stable, then noticed he was pointing off fore (already on few days box rest whilst poulticing a deep seated abscess in his hind!). This was the same foot he'd fractured as a 3yo and insurance co excluded it now! My vet checked him. We found he'd spread his shoe and stood on 2 nails - one had gone into white line and the other near pedal bone. Came out bloody. Great! So vet cleaned it and dressed it. Large intravenous jab in lower neck of antibiotics and intramuscular of something else.
My vet isn't sure at this stage if he has touched the pedal bone - nail halfway in. The good news is he is hardly lame this evening. But my vet may x-ray on Monday to be sure. I'll take a look at the dressing in the morning when I clean and change it plus poultice back foot.
He is one unlucky horse and seems to go for a few months OK before getting into another disaster. Typical he has to do the damn foot that is no longer insured!
YO and I think the 2 incidents are related. We think he got spooked when Shands was cast and must've stood on his shoe and spread it!
I'm worried he may get an infection so have bought antibacterial washes and colloidal silver by the bottle. So he'll get both feet plonked in it, scrubbed and flushed and wrapped up. Box rest and leading him up and down the drive in hand as fields too wet and we've only a sand arena which is wet and boggy!
Don't know whether to laugh or cry so am sitting here with a large vodka at present.
I fed my younger, horse who is in the next stable, then noticed he was pointing off fore (already on few days box rest whilst poulticing a deep seated abscess in his hind!). This was the same foot he'd fractured as a 3yo and insurance co excluded it now! My vet checked him. We found he'd spread his shoe and stood on 2 nails - one had gone into white line and the other near pedal bone. Came out bloody. Great! So vet cleaned it and dressed it. Large intravenous jab in lower neck of antibiotics and intramuscular of something else.
My vet isn't sure at this stage if he has touched the pedal bone - nail halfway in. The good news is he is hardly lame this evening. But my vet may x-ray on Monday to be sure. I'll take a look at the dressing in the morning when I clean and change it plus poultice back foot.
He is one unlucky horse and seems to go for a few months OK before getting into another disaster. Typical he has to do the damn foot that is no longer insured!
YO and I think the 2 incidents are related. We think he got spooked when Shands was cast and must've stood on his shoe and spread it!
I'm worried he may get an infection so have bought antibacterial washes and colloidal silver by the bottle. So he'll get both feet plonked in it, scrubbed and flushed and wrapped up. Box rest and leading him up and down the drive in hand as fields too wet and we've only a sand arena which is wet and boggy!
Don't know whether to laugh or cry so am sitting here with a large vodka at present.
