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my mare has been kicked in the hindleg above the fetlock on the rear cannon bone at the back few inches above fetlock it is like a small lump hard and not hot , she is dog lame in trot and stiff in walk whatsort of injury is this how long will it take to recover, can the vet do anything for it? she bare weight as normal when standing there is no cut i didnt even notice untill she trotted on the lunge
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See where you ask what sort of injury is it and can the vet do anything for it? The answer is yes, the vet can tell you what sort of injury it is AND how to treat it. Call him out.
 
wow thanks for all the help guys!!!! obviously i will call the vet but it wasnt nessecary for an emergancy i just wanted to know if people have had similar situations and if anything serious could be damaged, my vet over exagerates everything
 
Gemma, nearly 100 people have looked at this and no-one has any advice other than to call the vet.

You give little useful information in your OP other than she's been kicked, she's dog lame (but you didn't notice until you lunged her) and that you are worriiidd. Posting at 2.45am would seem to confirm that.

Dates/times and/or pictures might have helped.

A further point, I assume you are a newbie and not posting under another name, so presumably you don't know who is sensible or experienced on here and who is not. So if someone said "Oh wow, bless u por thing, my aunties sons girlfriends godmother always says u should sacrifice a frog, skin it, bind the skin on the lump and dance round the horse naked in the moonlight" are you going to believe them just because they might be the only person who doesn't agree that you should call your vet?

Oh, and if you don't believe or trust your vet perhaps you should think of changing to a different practice.

I hope the vet finds nothing serious wrong with your horse.
 
Could well be a splint forming, but like everyone above has already said - sounds like your girl needs a good horse vet to take a look and advise you on the best way to proceed. If she were mine, and whilst I was waiting for the vet to attend, I'd cold hose the leg, to help alleviate any pain. But apart from that, from what you describe - the vet is the best person to give you an action plan. Good luck. Let is know what he/she says about it.
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spyda - surely thats too soon?

call the vet gemma! even if it is a slight fracture, inappropriate work could cause spiral fractures etc why wait? nothing good ever comes from wating!
 
Gemma hun, like everyone else says, if your ned is dog lame, I'm sorry but that IS a veterinary emergency and I'm surprised you haven't called them out immediately. The reason it is an emergency is the ghastly things that can happen in a horse's leg. It could be a hairline fracture, it could be a tendon/tendon sheath problem. If there is even the tiniest break in the skin, she could have an infection starting to build up. Or it could be totally unrelated to the kick (did you see this happen?) or it could be nothing at all. See what I mean hun? You said she's stiff in walk but you only spotted it when you lunged her - didn't you wonder why she was stiff in walk? If it's something nasty, lunging her could have been the worst thing imagineable to do. She needs you to get the vet out now. We'd love to hear how she is and got fingers crossed for her x
 
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My thinking was, that maybe OP assumed her horse had been kicked because of the sudden appearance of this bony lump. A developing splint can cause lameness to one degree or another as it develops. From mild to 'dog lame'.

In any case you're quite right, stupid of me to guess - the horse <u>needs to see a vet</u> to be sure of what's genuinely going on. It's impossible for any of us to be really guessing without seeing the horse in the flesh.

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hey everyone took her out this morning and the swelling as gone done a lot ahe is sound in trot on a straight line, spoke to the vet on the phone and he just said cold hose which i am doing. thankgod she seems to be fine and was just a bruise to the muscle. she is back out now and should be totally 100% in a couple of days thanks for your replies. when i said dog lame she was lame but i may have overexagerated a little coz i get soo worrid out her and she was pretty lame. i am soo happy shes ok
 
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hmmmmm well thats what my vet said and hes with the royal veterinary college so i doubt hes wrong

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Do you know anything about equine anatomy - where the cannon bone is, and where the primary muscles of the leg are?
 
look what is you problem my vet ment tendon probably and no i dont spend day and night studying equine anatomy but yes i know there is no muscle in the cannon bone jus liament. what gets me is why you are so rude. all i care about is that my horse is ok. its got nothing to do with you if i said muscle instead of tendon get over it and get a life
 
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wow thanks for all the help guys!!!! obviously i will call the vet but it wasnt nessecary for an emergancy i just wanted to know if people have had similar situations and if anything serious could be damaged, my vet over exagerates everything

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Yes I very recently had a VERY similar exerience, only thing is it happened at the weekend, I immediately called the vet, sod the expense of an emergency weekend callout.

If a horse has been kicked and it is 'dog lame' it's an emergency imho.

Incidentally, according to my vet, the reason my mare is making a good recovery is because I acted immediately.
 
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This link may help - look for section "kicks onto bone". It may show you why people suggested why you phone your vet, and why they are still worried now.
 
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Amymay is always rude, Gemma: she's Welsh, I believe.

Have you tried sacrificing a frog yet?

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OMG She's sooo rude. I'm going off in my corricle now!
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Do you have any good suggestions for method? I'm afraid I left it rather to the imagination.
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Sadly, I can't be more specific regarding the exact treatment. My horses appear to be freaks of nature (well, one of them is Welsh), and have only bone, tendon and ligament below the hock, so have never had sore cannon muscles.
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Poor things - did their skin and hooves drop off or were they removed as part of some demonic experiment or ritual?

Was the frog skin not efficacious in regrowth?
 
Why on earth are you posting on here??? Call a Vet if your horse is ever dog lame
I thought it was common sense if an animal is in pain you call a vet
 
Blimey, If my horse was kicked and was lame as you describe...I wouldn't have the time to log on to the internet, bring up the forum and do a post. I'd be in the yard, waiting for the vet to arrive.
 
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Yes I very recently had a VERY similar exerience, only thing is it happened at the weekend, I immediately called the vet, sod the expense of an emergency weekend callout.

If a horse has been kicked and it is 'dog lame' it's an emergency imho.

Incidentally, according to my vet, the reason my mare is making a good recovery is because I acted immediately.

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Sorry Gemma I'm not saing this just to scare you but Sirena is right: my horse actually died as a result of his similar leg injury; one of the reasons why they couldn't save him was because he wasn't found and therefore seen by a vet quickly. It could only have been a max of 4 hours from injury to when he was found.
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Its just not worth the risk: I for one would ring my vet back up and INSIST that he comes out to see the horse now.
 
In this instance Gemma I am glad your mare seems ok, but if this should happen again please call your vet. Our mare was kicked on the leg whilst out on loan and was very lame. Originally vet (not mine I should add) recommended cold hosing, but after no improvement pony was x rayed and had a star fracture of the tibia. This could so easily have spiralled whilst she was jsut being cold hosed.
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After several months box rest, for 6 weeks of which she was cross tied, I am glad to say she made a full recovery, but the outcome could have been so different
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