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The farrier found an abscess in my lad's foot on Thursday evening. I have been poulticing since then with wet poultice and was going to continue with dry from today. He is walking better but there is still a strong digital pulse and some heat in that foot.

How long did it take for your horse to be completely normal? Farrier was saying that ordinarily he would be back to put his shoe back on today but he is away until the end of this week. Had he been coming back today I think I might have cancelled him.

Just to complicate matters he had a bout of laminitis earlier this year so I had originally treated it as laminitis (he had Danilon which I have since read shouldn't be given for an abscess).
 
It depends on how bad the abcess is and if there is anything else going on. I usually find they are no longer lame very quickly. If that is not the case it seems to be down to not having got all the abcess out. I would give your vet a call and talk to them by phone.

I would not worry unduly about the danilon. My pony is on bute anyway and gets abcesses due to cushings which she is on prascend for. She just carries on at the same level normally but last time I asked the vet if I could up the bute for a few days and they were fine with that.

I would suggest that if your pony has had lami and an abcess that you look to feed additional minerals to support the hooves as well as cutting out sugar. It is just that once a pony has problems every problem seems to instantly head to their hooves so everything you can do to keep them in maximum health is worthwhile.
 
Usually come sound within a couple of days - IF the farrier has managed to drain it well. If he is still lame all this time later I would ask the farrier to take another look for more pus - either in the same site or maybe another. Is he hopping lame or just feeling it a bit? If he is hopping I would suspect another abscess, and like Cocorules says, you might need to feed for better hoof quality (or test for Cushings/IR?)
 
JillA said:
or test for Cushings/IR?)
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Agree with JillA I would test for Cushings .What age is the horse? .Our Anglo Arab(21) had one abscess that lasted a month! as it kept running around the foot and appearing in a different place He would improve then he get a lot worse again He had a succession of bad abscess over 4 months came back with a reading of 280 (normal 30 or below)
1 prascent a day since February not a single abscess and last reading was 33
 
He is in the grey area for Cushings and is IR so reduced sugar, soaked hay etc. and he is on Formula for Feet (vets recommendation). We are just monitoring on the Cushings front at the moment.

He is now walking OK on that foot but pulse still stronger than the other 3 (which, if I can find anything, are faint), although less than it was yesterday when I posted originally. I had hoped that the pulse strength would get back to normal as the lameness disappeared.
 
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