Horse removed her own shoe...partially...

[Bav]

Ok so I'm just freaking out and after some reassurance from some lovely H&H users. So sorry it's a long one - much like my list of this horses injuries!

Yesterday I decided to do some lorry training for Sunday's dressage competition (my dads on his hollibobs so I can't tow so a friend who is going offered me a space and I wanted to make sure Fizz would load) queue her walking straight on, all ok! When turning her away from the lorry the absolute stooopppiiiddd pony stood on her own foot and partially removed her front shoe and slipped it back. tucking the toe clip underneath her foot.

There's me clinging onto her foot, a friend holding her and another retrieving some tools to remove the rest of the shoe. I managed to get the shoe the rest of the way off and there was a small spot of blood immediately next to one of the nail holes on the, imagine alongside the already made holes, not further into the sole if that makes sense. So she's obviously stepped down onto one of the nails before I managed to get her foot up.

So I'm freaking, Fizz is acting as though she only has three legs (she's super dramatic about losing shoes at the best of times) I poulticed straight away for the night. My farrier is off due to injury and I couldn't get hold of anybody else till this morning. She managed to keep the poultice on overnight but she was really rather lame on the foot. We decided to put the shoe back on this morning and she is walking much much better but is still tender on it and obviously lame in trot. I'm getting soooo many different opinions, but usual farrier suggested leaving the shoe off all weekend, others suggested putting it on etc.
I'm kind of happy it's on, as the walk appears much more comfortable but now I'm obviously freaking out about a possible abscess brewing!

I'm just posting because my mind is in overdrive, I've had so many problems with this horse injury wise that I'm kicking myself. Farrier that came this morning has said I'll know by Monday whether the shoe needs to come back off and we could see a very small hole, but there was nothing on the poultice and nothing coming out after lots of poking and prodding. I'm just second guessing my decision to have it back on. She was practically sound in walk on a surface prior to having it back on which is what made me say yes at the time.

Could it be that she's just sore and bruised? Arrghhh!!! Why do these things happen on a Friday and a weekend??!?

 

[Michen]

Sorry my brain is fried so maybe not reading this right but did the toe clip go into her hoof? This happened to my old boy and had to keep shoe off and poultice for a while for bruising/abscess risk

Ok so I'm just freaking out and after some reassurance from some lovely H&H users. So sorry it's a long one - much like my list of this horses injuries!

Yesterday I decided to do some lorry training for Sunday's dressage competition (my dads on his hollibobs so I can't tow so a friend who is going offered me a space and I wanted to make sure Fizz would load) queue her walking straight on, all ok! When turning her away from the lorry the absolute stooopppiiiddd pony stood on her own foot and partially removed her front shoe and slipped it back. tucking the toe clip underneath her foot.

There's me clinging onto her foot, a friend holding her and another retrieving some tools to remove the rest of the shoe. I managed to get the shoe the rest of the way off and there was a small spot of blood immediately next to one of the nail holes on the, imagine alongside the already made holes, not further into the sole if that makes sense. So she's obviously stepped down onto one of the nails before I managed to get her foot up.

So I'm freaking, Fizz is acting as though she only has three legs (she's super dramatic about losing shoes at the best of times) I poulticed straight away for the night. My farrier is off due to injury and I couldn't get hold of anybody else till this morning. She managed to keep the poultice on overnight but she was really rather lame on the foot. We decided to put the shoe back on this morning and she is walking much much better but is still tender on it and obviously lame in trot. I'm getting soooo many different opinions, but usual farrier suggested leaving the shoe off all weekend, others suggested putting it on etc.
I'm kind of happy it's on, as the walk appears much more comfortable but now I'm obviously freaking out about a possible abscess brewing!

I'm just posting because my mind is in overdrive, I've had so many problems with this horse injury wise that I'm kicking myself. Farrier that came this morning has said I'll know by Monday whether the shoe needs to come back off and we could see a very small hole, but there was nothing on the poultice and nothing coming out after lots of poking and prodding. I'm just second guessing my decision to have it back on. She was practically sound in walk on a surface prior to having it back on which is what made me say yes at the time.

Could it be that she's just sore and bruised? Arrghhh!!! Why do these things happen on a Friday and a weekend??!?

 

[Bav]

Sorry my brain is fried so maybe not reading this right but did the toe clip go into her hoof? This happened to my old boy and had to keep shoe off and poultice for a while for bruising/abscess risk

Ahh sorry it's me panic writing! Kind of, she'd lifted the front half of the shoe and then kind of (however the hell she managed it I don't know) put her foot back down on the shoe bending the toe clip underneath itself, that wasn't where the spot of blood was though, the blood was along the outside line where the nail clenches going in.

 

[be positive]

As it was only a nail, removed quickly and poulticed overnight you should get away with it, it is no different to a farrier accidentally putting a nail into the sensitive area, taking it out and putting it in the correct place, it may have taken some mud or muck in but the poultice should have removed that, it will still be sore for a day or two but as long as it improves progressively she should be fine, it has happened to some of mine and I don't think it has ever caused a problem if dealt with quickly, even the odd one found well after it happened has normally been ok after a couple of days poulticing just as a precaution.