Keratoma, Share your experiences?

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SusieT

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Am particularly interested to hear how long before you could turn out again. Was there any complications? Was the horse sore afterwards?
Many thanks in advance for your experiences.
 
A fellow livery had a horse with a keratoma. It was removed by removing a section of horn over it. Luckily the horn just under the coronet was able to be left alone. Once home from the Vet's he was on box rest, but it wasn't too long (when the Vet was happy) before he was turned out in a dry paddock for a couple of hours with lots of gaffer tape over his bandage. As soon as the farrier could fill the hole with something that looked like a resin filler, he then went back to his normal routine (in at night, out in the day) but his recovery started during the summer, so no real mud to speak of. The horse is now competing successfully.

Sorry that I can't give exact timings, but he wasn't my horse.
 
My horse did 8 weeks box rest. I was also lucky with the timing weather-wise, if it were mid winter it might have been longer. The vet had to cut out quite a broad section of hoof wall but fortunately didn't have to go too high, which seems to be the main factor in recovery time. The only complication was seedy toe after the initial chunk of horn had grown out. The new hoof wall above it continued to break up and has just about seemed to have stopped doing so a year and 8 months since the op.

My horse was in about the same discomfort straight after the op (but on metacam for a little while) than he had been before the op - he just pointed his bad foot a lot. If you search on here I put photos up of my arab's foot and waffled about it a lot.
 
Have a look at Shoestring Eventings website. You will see a full diary of diagnosis, removal, recovery and back to work!!
 
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