Gelding badly bitten neck of mare - really swollen

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Please help, was hoping for some advice from some experienced breeders for a mare who has been badly bitten all down her crest by an over zealous gelding! Naughty 3 1/2 year old 13.2hh gelding (was gelded 9 months ago) managed to go through a wooden fence and an electric fence to get to in season 16.2hh mare. They have lived quite happily for the last 9 months next to each other in separated fields and through several of her seasons without issue and he is the chillest pony ever usually, never coltish and never shown more than a mild interest in her. We also have an elderly gelding and another young 5yr old gelding (who was always the one who showed more interest in her )

For some reason this season she has been particularly flirty and the 3 1/2yr 13.2 gelding particularly interested so I had to put an additional electric fence between them but unfortunately found him in her field this morning and she is now very sore in back and hind legs and huge bite marks and bruising along her crest so he has obviously be clambering all over her, I don’t think that long as her neck was ok this morning at8am but have since checked her 3 hrs later and her crest/ neck is now a hot swollen mess (no skin broken) and she is very tender and won’t let me touch it - what can I do to help all this bruising? Have given a feed with bute in along with some chaste berry and have applied an arnica and witch hazel gel and given her some arnica tablets. Gelding now in stable, still overly interested and calling frantically for her as she is for him. Any advice please on the damage and what to do in future ?
 
I've seen neck bite injuries abscess with no initial cut observed. A hot swollen neck would have be sufficiently concerned to have it evaluated.
 
Jericho said:
9 months ago, as in original post. What would the antibiotics do? There isn’t any wound or open cut, it’s all just swelling on neck, along crest.
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sorry didn’t see that part! Would think it’s enough time for his hormones to settle. Could have muscle damage I would just ring the vet to ask for advice if anything
 
ester said:
I've seen neck bite injuries abscess with no initial cut observed. A hot swollen neck would have be sufficiently concerned to have it evaluated.
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Thank you - have rang the vet and done a WhatsApp video consultation as they running a skeleton staff at the moment and trying to avoid call out later unless emergency, initial advice is that I have done everything right, also have now cold hosed and the swelling is going down. Evaluate again tomorrow morning as there is quite rightly the risk of abscess forming
 
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