Shoe clip punctured sole

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Mare managed to rip off a back shoe on the way to a lesson yesterday. Luckily instructor has all the gear so shoe fully removed, cleaned, disinfected, poulticed and wrapped in a matter of minutes! There was a very small puncture wound at edge of foot where she'd stood on the clip and it was bleeding (not heavily). She's been in since but will go out in a boot when I get one today. Would you get antibiotics from vet just in case or just continue to poultice for next few days? She wet in school whilst I mucked out this morning and looked sound enough.

Farrier will def be needed not least because she's removed some hoof wall (that is relatively superficial). That's 2 shoes lost in the 7 days since she was shod - even more convinced taking her BF at next cycle is the right decision!
 
I would just carry on poulticing for a few days and let the farrier have a look, they don't very often give antibiotics for feet anyway, one of my horses did a similar thing but I didn't know the shoe had gone into the foot hence very lame horse a few days later so I got the vet, turns out he had pus in the foot and vet just said poultice like an abscess and he was fine.
 
Pinkvboots said:
I would just carry on poulticing for a few days and let the farrier have a look, they don't very often give antibiotics for feet anyway, one of my horses did a similar thing but I didn't know the shoe had gone into the foot hence very lame horse a few days later so I got the vet, turns out he had pus in the foot and vet just said poultice like an abscess and he was fine.
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Thank you. I'm hoping we'll have prevented an abscess and will keep poulticing.
 
I would poultice for another day or so and if still sound then you have probably got away with it. If they go lame then poke about where the toe clip went in and poultice again til the farrier is out.

You only really need to worry about them puncturing the foot further in towards the frog as that's when you start getting into pedal bone territory.
 
When you are finished with the poultice wash and dry the foot well and cover where the hole is / was with one of those compled blister plasters they can last days and the soles heals underneath them .
 
Thank you. She's now out in a shires poultice boot which is thankfully staying on and doing its job. All looks good so far so will stop the poulticing in the next day or so and give it a good clean again. I'll take a look at the blister plasters. She will need a day or so out of the boot before putting the shoe back to allow it to harden up again.
 
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