Strangest thing I've seen

[clairebearnz]

My mare, Missy, was turned out with a friend's horse for the afternoon, but I wanted to put her back in with Fready for the night, so caught her and gave her a bit of a groom. I noticed a stick poking out of her leg near her foot and pulled it, thinking it was just stuck in the skin. It broke off and then I noticed a lump under the wall of her foot.

She'd somehow managed to wedge the stick into her foot through the coronet band. She is, remarkably, 100% sound. The vet was then summoned, arrived, stared at her foot for a while, pulled out her phone and snapped some photos then set to work removing her hoof wall to get it out:

It looks like it's in one piece and Missy is supremely unaffected. She's a nervous mare (she was a dog food rescue who took me 6 weeks to catch the first time round) but seemed to be rather enjoying all this attention. She's now on bute and antibiotics, which she's thrilled about as she gets her own hard feed, and her foot will be bandaged for the next couple of weeks.

 

[OldNag]

How very strange. Hope she makes a quick recovery.

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

The lengths some horses will go to for a bit of attention
Just shows you how careful you need to be when checking them over.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

What an unusual injury. I hope that she recovers quickly.

 

[Meredith]

Hope your mare recovers quickly. Many many years ago I went to catch my pony only to find he had a piece of straight wire through his hoof. It had gone in at the frog groove and come out above the heel bulb. The top of the wire was over a foot long and waggling about behind his knee. The other end was longer and tangled up in front of his hoof. The farmer cut the wire so it could be pulled out and the vet gave me antibiotics to squirt in at both ends of the hole. There was no blood, infection or swelling and pony was never lame. I could never understand how he managed to do it. Now I know more I am amazed that there were no complications.

 

[clairebearnz]

It's healing up beautifully and she's been so very good about having it treated, especially since when I bought her a year ago, she was terrified of people and it took 6 weeks to catch her. She's into the routine now so comes wandering over to be caught in the mornings.

 

[Meredith]

Great news

 

[spookypony]

Glad to hear it!

 

[Pearlsasinger]

I'm so glad that she is making a good recovery. They can always find something new to amaze and worry us with!