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I only got my beautiful cob mare last August, she was sound up till January and i started to notice she was very slightly lame in the school on her front right leg. She was on and off lame till march when she just became lame 24/7. She is completely sound in walk . It only shows in trot. I got my vet to do a lameness work up and she he nerve blocked her and she was sound. He took some xrays of her foot but found nothing so she was referred to have a MRI scan of both front feet to compare. MRI results came back she had an old pedal bone fracture that had healed but now she had a hairline crack , so small that no xrays would pick it up. she has one large side bone in her right foot and the vets think as it has grown it has pushed up against the pedal bone and caused it to crack. so the vets came and she had a huge cast on her foot for 6 solid weeks in her stable she has also had a tildren injection into her foot. She had ht pot taken off 2 weeks ago and straight after she had had heart bar shoes fitted with side clips and another week on box rest. the last week she has been able to go out in a small paddock and go on walks in hand. Walking she has been totally fine . The first few times i turned he rout she was sedated as the last thing the vets wanted was her blowing up. But even under sedation the first time she went out she kept leaping in the air bucking and throwing herself about. I went in to get her and she ran off, her paddock is so small she did not have anywhere to go so she just kept trotting around around until I could grab her. Her trot was so lame
on the right foot. worse than I have seen it before. It broke my heart as the vets hair the cast should. make it heal. I out her back in her stable and rang the vets. they said basically shes probably re opened the fracture and it might never heal and she will have to be PTS!! I have hardly ate a thing all week and I feel terrible. She is on no medication and I am doing everything the vets are telling me. She is sedated every morning, 3 walks a day in hand and is out all day in her little paddock. She has not blown up since and if I did not tell anyone you would not think she is lame. Im so scared to trot her. Does anyone know a good supplement or anything that can help the healing process ? I don't want her PTS as shes an amazing horse. She is very special to me. sorry for the essay!
I only got my beautiful cob mare last August, she was sound up till January and i started to notice she was very slightly lame in the school on her front right leg. She was on and off lame till march when she just became lame 24/7. She is completely sound in walk . It only shows in trot. I got my vet to do a lameness work up and she he nerve blocked her and she was sound. He took some xrays of her foot but found nothing so she was referred to have a MRI scan of both front feet to compare. MRI results came back she had an old pedal bone fracture that had healed but now she had a hairline crack , so small that no xrays would pick it up. she has one large side bone in her right foot and the vets think as it has grown it has pushed up against the pedal bone and caused it to crack. so the vets came and she had a huge cast on her foot for 6 solid weeks in her stable she has also had a tildren injection into her foot. She had ht pot taken off 2 weeks ago and straight after she had had heart bar shoes fitted with side clips and another week on box rest. the last week she has been able to go out in a small paddock and go on walks in hand. Walking she has been totally fine . The first few times i turned he rout she was sedated as the last thing the vets wanted was her blowing up. But even under sedation the first time she went out she kept leaping in the air bucking and throwing herself about. I went in to get her and she ran off, her paddock is so small she did not have anywhere to go so she just kept trotting around around until I could grab her. Her trot was so lame
on the right foot. worse than I have seen it before. It broke my heart as the vets hair the cast should. make it heal. I out her back in her stable and rang the vets. they said basically shes probably re opened the fracture and it might never heal and she will have to be PTS!! I have hardly ate a thing all week and I feel terrible. She is on no medication and I am doing everything the vets are telling me. She is sedated every morning, 3 walks a day in hand and is out all day in her little paddock. She has not blown up since and if I did not tell anyone you would not think she is lame. Im so scared to trot her. Does anyone know a good supplement or anything that can help the healing process ? I don't want her PTS as shes an amazing horse. She is very special to me. sorry for the essay!
