What would you have done with this cut?

If it`s a clean wound that`s healing, leave it. The more you fiddle with a wound the longer the healing will take and as a previous poster has said, you will remove the granulating tissue and promote the development of proud flesh or scarring. If you feel it`s at risk from dirt and flies, clean, use intrasite gel if necessary and cover with a hydrocolloid dressing (like compeed and such like, `available from Boots and all good chemists`. Leave in situ for as long as possible to reduce disturbance to the wound and hey presto, job done!
 
elderlycoupleindevon said:
There's always a chance of something more serious, especially over a joint. For peace of mind I would get the vet, it looks fairly straightforward, but can you be sure there's not a puncture or a piece of bone floating about?
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Eeek :eek: Rather over dramatic in this instance I feel. It's hardly a wound likely to be compromising a joint, nor a puncture-type wound.

OP: glad to hear it's drying up and looking better. Hopefully it wont leave anything but the weaniest of scars, if any. :)
 
Mine had a similar cut when I went to check him in the field this morning - I put a dollop of sudocreme in and left him - went back tonight and he's fine. Yours certainly isn't anything i would even consider calling a vet for!
 
Could it be a bite from another horse?

A splash with salt water whenever you're passing would probably clear it up quite quickly.
 
She is in with another horse but it's SO clean cut. I'm sure it's either the edge of a stone, some wire or maybe a glancing kick from madam with shoes on. But it's really clean cut, deeper exactly in the middle. Tis odd!!
 
I would hibiscrub purple spray/ antiseptic spray and then some good oldfashioned wound powder to help form a barrier/ scab to stop the flies getting in it
 
Cedars said:
She is in with another horse but it's SO clean cut. I'm sure it's either the edge of a stone, some wire or maybe a glancing kick from madam with shoes on. But it's really clean cut, deeper exactly in the middle. Tis odd!!
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It looks like a shoe cut to me from her companion rearing and coming down on her in a sweep with her front feet. I'd have squirted it with peroxide and put fly repellent as close to it as I could get without it getting in it.
 
Theres this spray, im not sure what its called, i call it purple spray. but its blue?? LOL you can get it from the vets it says its for sheep (good for there feet?) Its fantastic!!! Keeps it from getting anything in it, an seems to dry it out!

Also, sorry if anyones also mentioned this, havnt read everyones awnsers! :)
 
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Holly Hocks said:
Mine had a similar cut when I went to check him in the field this morning - I put a dollop of sudocreme in and left him - went back tonight and he's fine. Yours certainly isn't anything i would even consider calling a vet for!
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I love sudocrem (aaaah the smell!!) and use it a lot, but just to warn people that I have had two horses that were seriously reactive to it, and if used on an open wound they would stream with serum until it was wiped off. On one of them it was extremely useful to loosen mud fever scabs!
 
'Washed with hibiscrub and then packed it with sudocreme. It doesn't look like something to be concerned about to me as it doesn't look deep.'
Not remotely this. The hibiscrub unless so dilute the water is just about pink will kill off healthy tissue as well as bacteria. The Sudocreme will block the tissue from healing and prolong the healing. So often a horse owners remedy and so incorrect and counter productive. Just for everyones future reference.
 
If one of ours came in with a cut like that they're I'd assume a kick too OP - matches very much the layers of hair they boys have been taken off each other (without breaking the skin) sorting out their new pecking order having had a new horse added to a group of 13.

Susie T actually isn't talking rubbish, hibiscrub can be counter productive sometimes, especially as often once it's diluted people tend to apply it with cotton wool and press aginst the wound, which just puches any dirt further in and risks adding cotton wool fibres too. This is why it's always best to start with a hose and work up to saline/hibiscrub if you need - always start by running a hose through (not straight into, but so the water flows through and out) the wound to clear it out and then use saline/hibiscrub if feel it's needed.
 
Don;t worry!!! Mine did the exact same cut in the exact same place last saturday! On a gate while we were hacking. I washed it out with human Savlon spray daily (which it the same as purple spray without the purple in it!!!!) and rugged him on the first night to keep it clean. I have this stuff called 'Wonder gel' in a blue bottle that I put on to soothe it - horse liked that stuff. I put fly repellent gel around the edge not in the wound.
I am pleased to say it is all dried out and scabbed over a week later, no soreness left and no lameness.
Unfortunately last night he came in with another deeper one on his butt!!!! Don;t know how that happened but will treat the same way!!! Bloomin horses!!!!
 
I only ever dilute hibiscrub til it's only just pink-and use it mostly as a flush rather than actually to disinfect. Haven't been up to see her today yet but fingers crossed! If it leaves a mark I'll be so cross! :(
 
OhCappaGino said:
Theres this spray, im not sure what its called, i call it purple spray. but its blue?? LOL you can get it from the vets it says its for sheep (good for there feet?) Its fantastic!!! Keeps it from getting anything in it, an seems to dry it out!

Also, sorry if anyones also mentioned this, havnt read everyones awnsers! :)
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terramycin - tis good stuff:D
 
First cut looks superficial, if mine i'd wash with hibiscrub rinse well,pat dry, these make up removel pads are good for that as they dont leave fibres in the wound, then cover it with summer fly ointment, as it stops fly strike, it should heal ok, keep an eye on it for any sign of infection in this warm weather, if not looking better in a few days might need anti bi cover, but id think that highly unlikely.
The second pick deffo a bit deeper at one end, would prob treat the same if mine, difficult to really see from pic only, but it looks like it could take a couple of stitches at the deeper end, that said it looks like it would probably heal on its own as well, but i think i'd prefer antibiotic cover for that one.
 
sula said:
If it`s a clean wound that`s healing, leave it. The more you fiddle with a wound the longer the healing will take and as a previous poster has said, you will remove the granulating tissue and promote the development of proud flesh or scarring.
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I agree. Fiddling with cuts causes many more problems than they solve imo.

May I say please don't use antibiotic powder unless prescribed. Bugs are getting more and more resistant to antibiotics and powders floating round in the air may well be one reason. Don't wish to get at you op it's just I worry about us owners using non prescription antibiotics (especially powders) when they may not be necessary giving lots of bugs the chance to meet them and change themselves so they're not affected by that particular one. Just one of my soap boxes I'm afraid. :o
 
I agree amandap - I wouldnt ever use anti bs without prescription for the same reasons as you (did biology at uni!). Only ever 'over the counter' stuff without a vet.
 
Cedars said:
I agree amandap - I wouldnt ever use anti bs without prescription for the same reasons as you (did biology at uni!). Only ever 'over the counter' stuff without a vet.
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:D I was a nurse once (in the dim and distant past) I think. lol Back in the days when this was just realized as a big problem.
 
Cedars said:
We washed it with hibiscrub and brought her in. I want to call vet but not sure what they actually could do? It almost needs gluing together!

Really worried about her, mostly because it's now been 5 hours an it's not scabbing or dryin out at all. But she's not bothered?
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I wouldn't be worried in the slightest. I would do as you did, wash with hibiscrub, and then fire in some wound powder and leave well alone. It looks completely superficial and not deep enough to threaten any vital joints.
 
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