Overgrown Pony
Well-Known Member
Hey guys
Thank you all so much for your kind words of wisdom.
Here's a wee update.
Went to see him first thing before work the next morning (Tuesday). I didn't see any improvement. He was still standing at the hay, unable to walk forward and back legs still very swollen. As i'd been instructed I called the vet when I got to work to update her. She said a vet would be out later in the afternoon so I made arrangements to get off work and for my son. YO text me around 11am to say that he was moving. He'd been to the water trough a few times and was now grazing with his chums further in the field! Also the swelling had reduced. I called the vet who said she'd be happy for me to pick up oral steroids from the surgery to go with the oral anti-biotics I have for him (5 day course).
YO text me again to say she'd brought him in for me (managed to grit enough to make a path along the verg and up through the yard) and he'd "marched in"!! I couldn't believe my ears. What a transformation. The steroids had obviously kicked in enough for him to walk. When I got to him after work he was happily munching haylage in the stable without a worry in the world. He walked straight up to the stable door to say hello.
I can't tell you how bl**dy relieved I am! My head was spinning with worry. I scrubbed his back legs from top to bottom with Nizoral, thoroughly dried them with clean towels and checked them over. There was a touch of mudfever behind one pastern and a few nicks and cuts up the legs. I udder cream & pigoiled up to the pasterns and purple sprayed the wee nicks and cuts. I'll do this again for the next few days and see how we're looking.
God I was panicking about things like he's going to get blood poisoning and die!!!
Thank you all so much for your kind words of wisdom.
Here's a wee update.
Went to see him first thing before work the next morning (Tuesday). I didn't see any improvement. He was still standing at the hay, unable to walk forward and back legs still very swollen. As i'd been instructed I called the vet when I got to work to update her. She said a vet would be out later in the afternoon so I made arrangements to get off work and for my son. YO text me around 11am to say that he was moving. He'd been to the water trough a few times and was now grazing with his chums further in the field! Also the swelling had reduced. I called the vet who said she'd be happy for me to pick up oral steroids from the surgery to go with the oral anti-biotics I have for him (5 day course).
YO text me again to say she'd brought him in for me (managed to grit enough to make a path along the verg and up through the yard) and he'd "marched in"!! I couldn't believe my ears. What a transformation. The steroids had obviously kicked in enough for him to walk. When I got to him after work he was happily munching haylage in the stable without a worry in the world. He walked straight up to the stable door to say hello.
I can't tell you how bl**dy relieved I am! My head was spinning with worry. I scrubbed his back legs from top to bottom with Nizoral, thoroughly dried them with clean towels and checked them over. There was a touch of mudfever behind one pastern and a few nicks and cuts up the legs. I udder cream & pigoiled up to the pasterns and purple sprayed the wee nicks and cuts. I'll do this again for the next few days and see how we're looking.
God I was panicking about things like he's going to get blood poisoning and die!!!
