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AliceS

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Hi All..

My 14 y/o horse has caught his back legs on some barbwire and cut his self. Is there anything you would reccomend to out on it? and will the hair grow back?

Thanks for your help in advance. :cool:
 
Can you get a picture of it hun? It's difficult/impossible to offer safe advice with such limited knowledge of the injury. Is it just a skin wound? Did it bleed profusely? Is it over a joint? If it IS near a joint, have you seen any clear, pale straw coloured liquid seeping from the wound? Is it a deep wound and you can see lines of white through the cut? Has it torn any skin away, ie a red raw patch? What you needed to do (though too late now if you didn't) is to: 1) clean it gently to get any contamination/muck out of the wound. BE GENTLE because you can damage the wound further if you're too harsh eg cold hosing with a strong jet of water. 2) make an assessment if it is still bleeding or if the blood is squirting out in a jet or if the horse is VERY lame on that leg. 3) if a joint/tendon is involved or if the horse is very lame/non weight bearing or if it won't stop bleeding or if it's a large area and/or a patch of skin has been torn off, then VET - EMERGENCY. If it's only small, not near a joint, stopped bleeding and scabbed over, horse weight bearing and not lame, then you can probably deal with it yourself. Wound gel is better than powder as it provides a moist environment for the skin to heal. Keep an eye on it and cover it well with something like Savlon if he's out, to keep the flies off. Gently assess it every day and clean/repeat the Savlon every day. If it doesn't seem to be healing or if things deteriorate, call the vet immediately.

My concern is that barbed wire can inflict nasty injuries, especially if the horse tried to pull away and made the original injury worse. If the joint is involved or if a tendon sheath has been exposed, the horse may need an emergency flush of the area under a general anaesthetic. If the horse isn't weight bearing, the damage could be a lot worse than you think. Fingers crossed - put a pic up hun xxx
 
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