OMG horrible accident

[twinklinggem]

My daughters horse came in yesterday afternoon with all the skin on her hind leg just completly off well hanging off her leg there was blood everywhere

it was awful my daughter almost passed out can't think how she did it shes only in a paddock with two shetlands,looks like she put it through the fencing and worst of all i have no insurance on her only public libility as we have claimed with other horses and not got a payout due to small writing in policy so i thought what the hell,thats come back to kick me in the face now isn't it.

She has had 25 stiches the vet managed to sew back the skin and we are just prayin it will take and knit back together otherwise its skin grafts and months off work not that that matters just want her right again.
anybody evre had it happen to them whats the likeyhood of it healing

 

[Thistle]

Oh poor horse, fingers crossed it heals.

PM Henryhorn, she has had great results with honey dressings on horrific injuries.

 

[mat]

Sorry I have no experience of this, but wanted to say well done for dealing with it! I would have passed out, after throwing up everywhere I think..

Hopefully the vet sorted it quick enough to make sure it all knits well....

 

[brackenhappy]

fingers crossed for your horse. do you have electric fencing in the field? my foal got caught up in fencing when another horse died and her back leg was stripped to the bone unfortunatly they couldnt do anything for her and she was PTS. just keep the area clean and it should take. the same foal managed to slice her face open when she was 3 months old in the field and there was nothing in there that i could fine that caused it! she was stitched on antibiotics and i kept the wound clean and put vasaline on to stop mud getting in (pain in the butt to remove!!) and that healed lovely infact once the stiches where out and scab gone and fur grown back you couldnt tell she had done it!

 

[mariond]

Thistle has mentioned Henryhorns sucess with honey dressings and Maluka honey would be my suggestion. I have not used it personally but have a friend who told me about a TB yearling trapping its leg under a door when she was working in Australia or N Zealand. It took a load of skin off and there was nothing for the vet to stich. They treated it with Maluka honey and it healed up well. From previous comments on here I think it needs to be a high active one (you will know what I mean if you look in a health shop) Try somewhere like Holland & Barett

 

[Tierra]

My mare completly degloved a hind leg down to the bone several years ago.

The bone and tendons were intact but that was pretty much it... everything was gone from the hock to the coronet band and the initial thoughts were to put her to sleep. The prognosis was that IF it healed, she would never be ridden again.

It took 10 months from her sustaining the original injury to being able to be walked out in hand. I first sat on her again the following summer (about 18 months after the injury).

Bliss had very little in the way of stitches because there was nothing there to stitch... The injury was cleaned daily which took over an hour and was absolutly horrific to do as everything was exposed. She did develop a problem with granulation tissue and Im kicking myself for never having it removed by the vet... however at the time, we thought she'd been through enough without adding to it. The granulation scarring is still causing issues today and thats 8 years on.

She did come back into work... but she was never "right" enough for me to be comfortable with it. She had a lameness on the opposite foreleg which was put down to over compensation. She still has issues with tightness over her hip above the original injury. We went through various diagnostical work once she had healed in the hope of "fixing" her but everything was quite inconclusive... there was no obvious problem with the opposite fore and the vets didnt believe there was pain in the hind leg, but she was never "right". I retired her completly a couple of years on. Since then, ive ridden her lightly sometimes to keep her interested in life, but shes been happy having babies for the most part.

All this said... i must stress this was a complete degloving of her hind leg and there was NOTHING there except the actual structure.

(For anyone interested, the livery yard she was at had put her kickbolt across but not fastened her top bolt. She kicked out at some point and her hind leg slipped between the door and the doorframe. When she pulled it back, it degloved the whole leg. INCIDENTLY, she was wearing thermatex leg wraps at the time which didnt break and the vets were 99% sure that these saved her life)

Keep an eye on the wound, keep it clean and follow the vets advice

Be very very careful of granulation tissue and id 100% advise this be removed if it develops because it does and will cause issues later on.

 

[cidermillcottage1]

ohh how nasty, hope she makes a full recovery. I had a horse that stripped the skin off its back leg once, the vet stitched it back up but we had a real problem with proud flesh and it took months to clear. Only advice I can give is common sense - keep it nice and clean and if any proud flesh starts to occur get the vet to look at it asap. Good luck

 

[joanne1920]

when i was younger a veteran tb x welsh mare got slashed with a knife around the the top of her front leg ahich allowed the skin to fall down, the yo found her laying in a pool of blood. they sedated her stood up with big hefty yo owners husband pushing her up a fence to stop her falling over as wound had to be stitched with mare upright. the vet stitched it all back together and mare was put in nearest stable on deep bed and was heavily sedated for several days, the vet said 50:50. the mares leg swelled at least twice its normal size. but time and love got her back together, she was always left with a bad scar, but several months after the incident she was sound and even bucked me off! sh lived another 5 years before she was pts suffering arthritus... hope this gives you some hope xxx fingers crossed for you xxx

 

[Tinkerbee]

Fingers crossed for horsie

 

[meandmyself]

How awful! Sending healing vibes!

 

[truffles]

I found a horse in the field at my old yard who had done exactly the same thing except on her knee - There was lots of blood too, but vet cleaned it up nicely and she was in a bandage stood still in her stable for a quite a while - it healed perfectly and you can hardly see the scar now.

 

[Janette]

Hope all goes well, Keep a positive mental attitiude going........ chin up.

 

[twinklinggem]

Thanks everyone the vet is out again today to change dressing and see if its healing and not burst open with the swelling,so fingers crossed,she was quite happy yesterday in her stable with plenty of hay.

We walked around the paddock yesterday to see if we could see what she had caught it on there was some broken bottom fencing but to be hinest she wouldn't have come away with such an injury,they are having fencing replaced and there was a roll of wire in the same paddock that had been left by builders,but no fur or blood on it

so not sure.
How do we stand if we found it was the fencing to blame where does the livery YO stand

as are they not ment to provide a secure and safe enviorment for your horse?

Just a thought.

Will let you know how it went later today.

 

[samp]

That is awful, fungers crossed for you. Have to say I always have mine insured for vet fees now as I have had to make thousand ££s worth of claims over years and without it I would have had some PTS

 

[Tempi]

My friends pony did that to its foreleg - vet stitched it all up no problem and pony was never even lame. Then it suddenly went lame a month later - found out it had got a bone infection

Luckily its ok now, but it had 6months off work before it came sound again.

(sorry dont mean to sound depressing - that was just my experience of a similar injury)

 

[only_me]

the horse at our yard was out hacking one day when sumting spooked it, and it sort of fell in to a cattle gird/ manhole type hole/ditch. it completley ripped all the skin off the front of its chest and had to have about 50 stiches!!!

but it is fine now, apart from having that much hair on it, but he pony events and does working hunter etc. if you didnt know his story then you wud neva guess that he had ripped all the skin!

dont worry, im sure your horse will be fine - they are very gd healers and skin heals quickly...
good luck!

 

[brighteyes]

A friend's pony once shredded her hind leg down the side of her canon bone. It came totally right and not that hideous a scar either. Good luck.

 

[twinklinggem]

Well its been a week now since accident she has had dressings changed every two days!! looks good where the stiches are but the top where there was nothing to stich looks horrible gunky the vet did say its normal he would expect that,my poor horse looks a mess. i feel like crying.

I have gone through every emotion anger because the fencing is crap in paddock and we didn't know she's on full livery,Yo is not that confident at changing dressings so we have to go up everyother day to do that,i felt like screaming at anyone that comes near me to offer their "advice" and those that stnad there and go eeek looks horrible..yes i know it does..gggrrrrr
I am now just thinking thankgod shes alive and seems to be coping very well with the trauma.
Oh she now has some sweeling in her tummy and teats due to fluid retention due to box rest none of which Yo noticed!! so the vet sugested a small walk which i worried about doing and massage.
Thanks for lisitening guys it helps.

 

[brackenhappy]

so glad to read your mare is one the road to recovery. cant believe tho that YO didnt spot probs or cant change a dressing does the YO know nothing about horses? either that or i'm lucky that my YO has horses and has had for years and i know if any probs they would spot straight away! anyways loads of healing vibes on the way just be careful on her first walk out!! she may be a tad excited!!! xxxx

 

[twinklinggem]

The walk will just be up the yard too get the sweeling down nothing to much as we don't want to much movement in the leg,

Well this is the problem she is lovely as long as horses are "normal" but theres more to running a yard that turning out and bringing in

 

[zigzag]

If my horse was on full livery I would expect the YO to change the dressings if I couldn't get there

Hugs for your horsie

 

[MurphysMinder]

I hope your poor horse continues improving, sounds like you are heading in the right direction. The YO doesn't sound very helpful. We used to keep our pony at a DIY yard, but the person who runs it is a very experienced AI. Our vets always said altho it wasn't the smartest yard she was the most knowledgeable YO around. When our mare had an infected puncture wound and had to have penicillin jabs twice daily YO did it for us at no extra charge. We still call her now if we are not sure of something. IMO this is why we need some sort of licensing for livery yards, anyone can set themselves up but not have the knowledge to properly care for other peoples horses.

 

[twinklinggem]

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I hope your poor horse continues improving, sounds like you are heading in the right direction. The YO doesn't sound very helpful. We used to keep our pony at a DIY yard, but the person who runs it is a very experienced AI. Our vets always said altho it wasn't the smartest yard she was the most knowledgeable YO around. When our mare had an infected puncture wound and had to have penicillin jabs twice daily YO did it for us at no extra charge. We still call her now if we are not sure of something. IMO this is why we need some sort of licensing for livery yards, anyone can set

themselves up but not have the knowledge to properly care



for other peoples horses.

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I agree as we could do with some help now.

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

gosh that sounds awful, i hope your horse recovers soon