Crugeran Celt
Well-Known Member
I have a 24 year old mare that came in from the field last Friday very lame, literally on three legs. Nothing obvious but she has suffered with foot abscesses in the past so assumed she had another. Saturday morning her leg was swollen from fetlock to hock so hozed it and kept her in overnight. By Sunday she had an abscess on the inside of her leg about three inches down from the hock, it was oozing pus and was just a mess. Washed it out with salt water and covered it to keep the flies out. Called vet on Monday who thought she may have had a puncture wound that had become infected. Antibiotics, tetanus booster and pain killers and advised that although it was probably better to leave it open because of flies to clean it twice a day and re dress it. It hasn't stopped running with pus since and seems to be getting bigger and bigger, it looks ahd smells horrendous and I will be calling vet back out tomorrow as really not happy with it. Anyone got any experience if this as I have never seen anything like it before.