WishfulThinker
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Its a longish one as I was dithering a bit as I wrote it. but its all relevant
He had his feathers clipped off the other week. He has, since I have owned him had what I believed to be windgalls, and lumps on his back legs - his white ones. Sometimes these lumps can come up a bit with hard skin, not a scab, but hard, and he does have like a fold/line/crack of hard skin on each back leg but they don't seem to bother him.
The other day I noticed that he has a line of hard, rough skin just at the top of his Fetlock, and the flesh underneath feels squishy, but not squishy like the windgall lumps. He isn't lame however, and there isn't really any heat coming from there. My friend says its just fluid and it will be fine.
Yesterday I brought him in and the front of his cannon was a bit raised, an there was what looked like this rough skin, and it felt a bit squishy, from what I could feel as when I touched it he pulled his leg up to his belly
. But again, he is not lame. We had been for a 3 hours hack the day before, but he was booted - clean boots and very clean legs - and he has his legs hosed down after the hack and checked and there was nothing untoward so it must have happened in the field. I cold hosed it for 10 mins and got to feel it without it being snatched away and I pressed and it was again, still kinda squishy. He was ridden - on grass - and described as going very well, in fact better than usual.
I have so far just smothered it in Sudocreme and he went back out into the starver last night, and he was checked about an hour ago and they said there was no visible swelling, and he wasn't lame.
So.........I don't want to seem like a negligent owner, but also, he isn't lame, and nothing was bleeding. Would you involve a vet?
I plan to have a closer look when I go up later, see if he is lame etc, then cold hose his leg even if he isn't lame. But as he is out 24/7 now I don't like him getting wet legs every day, and he usually has them covered in protective salve to keep any scabby bits clean/soft and the flies away. And no, its NOT like a mud fever rash.
I'm probably worrying over nothing, but I've never had a horse thats hurt its self before.
He had his feathers clipped off the other week. He has, since I have owned him had what I believed to be windgalls, and lumps on his back legs - his white ones. Sometimes these lumps can come up a bit with hard skin, not a scab, but hard, and he does have like a fold/line/crack of hard skin on each back leg but they don't seem to bother him.
The other day I noticed that he has a line of hard, rough skin just at the top of his Fetlock, and the flesh underneath feels squishy, but not squishy like the windgall lumps. He isn't lame however, and there isn't really any heat coming from there. My friend says its just fluid and it will be fine.
Yesterday I brought him in and the front of his cannon was a bit raised, an there was what looked like this rough skin, and it felt a bit squishy, from what I could feel as when I touched it he pulled his leg up to his belly
I have so far just smothered it in Sudocreme and he went back out into the starver last night, and he was checked about an hour ago and they said there was no visible swelling, and he wasn't lame.
So.........I don't want to seem like a negligent owner, but also, he isn't lame, and nothing was bleeding. Would you involve a vet?
I plan to have a closer look when I go up later, see if he is lame etc, then cold hose his leg even if he isn't lame. But as he is out 24/7 now I don't like him getting wet legs every day, and he usually has them covered in protective salve to keep any scabby bits clean/soft and the flies away. And no, its NOT like a mud fever rash.
I'm probably worrying over nothing, but I've never had a horse thats hurt its self before.