Finlib
Well-Known Member
Posted here on 27/7 about my mare diagnosed with keratoma front foot plus other foot problems .the mare is 20years old a TB
After whole day in vet hospital nerve blocks xrays injections into coffin joint recommendations for surgery she was much worse than at the start,
I took the decision advised by the farrier and with the vets approval to do nothing except turn the mare away put on 1 danilon a day and a joint supplement and have specialist surgical shoeing by my farrier .
Well 6 weeks on she is sound and the vet says she can be ridden in the sand school and start ridden walking out on the lanes once she has seen the farrier.
Part of the reason I could take this decision was that the mare is a veteran on insurance and I have no cover for this eventuallity .I therefore was not tied up with having time limits and exclusions which force us to act quickly.
She can stay on this medication routine permenantly if needs be and I have a horse happy horse that I can hack lightly while I bring on her son who I am in the proccess of bringing on to ride.
Sometimes patience is the best treatment.
After whole day in vet hospital nerve blocks xrays injections into coffin joint recommendations for surgery she was much worse than at the start,
I took the decision advised by the farrier and with the vets approval to do nothing except turn the mare away put on 1 danilon a day and a joint supplement and have specialist surgical shoeing by my farrier .
Well 6 weeks on she is sound and the vet says she can be ridden in the sand school and start ridden walking out on the lanes once she has seen the farrier.
Part of the reason I could take this decision was that the mare is a veteran on insurance and I have no cover for this eventuallity .I therefore was not tied up with having time limits and exclusions which force us to act quickly.
She can stay on this medication routine permenantly if needs be and I have a horse happy horse that I can hack lightly while I bring on her son who I am in the proccess of bringing on to ride.
Sometimes patience is the best treatment.
