Proud flesh in frog!!!

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Need your help - starting to feel like I can’t get anything right 🤦🏻*♀️

So the chubby welsh has a suspected burst abscess in her hoof - come out through the point of the frog.

I say suspected because if you’ve seen my previous post she went lame just before we bought her and the farrier (not her usual one as he was unavailable when previous owner tried to book) sAid he thought she had an abscess. Long story short she was heavily lame for a few days then sound. So we bought her, moved her, been riding and she was sound as a pound. She came in from the field last week with a hole in her frog around half a cm wide, sound on the straight lame On a circle.

Anyway vet came out that night, cut the frog back and found a patch of proud flesh. This got gradually bigger and under vets instructions we kept clean and she was on antibiotics and anti inflammatories. No improvement. Discussed other options with vet before going down the root of cutting it off. Tried equiaide, bandaged but no improvement.

Got pony in tonight and the proud flesh looked very sore and now maggots! (Scared me to say the least as I’ve kept it spotlessly clean)

Farrier is due tomorrow and I’m armed with painkillers and sedatives from the vet. Wanted vet to be there tomorrow to but unfortunately already booked out.

So my question to you all is what on earth do I do, will the farrier be able to cut it out tomorrow? And what should my plan be moving forward! Help 😥
 
I would be concerned that this is canker, it is not common and is sometimes not picked up by vets, hopefully your farrier will be able to advise what needs doing as if it is canker you need to be extremely proactive before it gets worse, hope it is not but I have never known proud flesh develop in the foot.
 
where is this hole?

I would also be concerned about canker from what you say and if it is that it is a big deal and you need a vet and farrier that really know what they are doing to try and get on top of it.
 
AFAIK most photo cases of canker I have seen have been central sulcus based.. which is why I asked where it was as I wasnt sure it was in the place of the original hole. - that an it doesn't look like the usual proliferation to me and more likely the result of an abscess exit.
 
So not canker? Phew! It’s so frustrating I’ve literally read every forum and article and feel like I’ve tried everything! Hopefully the farrier can cut it all back tomorrow and we can get back on track!
 
From my limited, photo only experience I don't think it would be typical. I'd be interest to know what the result of your follow up is though.
 
Until I saw the photos I was going to suggest it could be a keretoma (our old boy had one in his frog, which is not the usual place but not unheard of, and it looked a lot like proud flesh and our first warming that it was there was a spate of abscesses). But it was also extremely painful and bled like fury if you knocked it and was very pale cream in colour so a bit different from what you've got there.

Not sure what else to suggest but am interested to see what your experts come up with.
 
It's been a while since I originally started this thread but a lot has happened since. So we relocated from Essex to Lancashire and have "trialled" a copy of yard (poor pony has been moved around a bit) but we have finally found an amazing yard!
The proud flesh dried up and created almost a lump of frog at the point. This has almost fallen off and the frog has started to grow behind HOOORAY!!! :D
We have had a number of different "hoof specialists", farriers and vets out... no one has any idea what it was?? We considered the route of nerve-blocking, x-rays, samples being sent to the lab but as she remained sound and would let you prod and poke it we decided against it.
So not a lot to report on this front. Although after buying and testing just about every single cream, powder, lotions and potions on the internet the best thing we found was good old sugar and iodine mixed, packed into her frog, covered with a nappy and then a hoof boot. Sometimes it just isn't worth experimenting with the "super products."

After moving her to our new yard the yard owner/manager managed to convince me to let go of the laborious process of cleaning and packing and just let it breathe. Best thing we could have done as it's looking the best it's ever done. Farrier out in two weeks so will see what they say :):)
 
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