Wound care

[newfy]

Hello all

2 weeks ago my mare was injured in the field and suffered from a nasty cut. The vet came out the same evening and cleaned it up. She had been on antibiotics for a week and swelling has cleared up.

She is on box rest currently, with it being bandaged up.

My question is, based on how it looks at the moment, do you think she could be turned out, with the bandage on, in a small dry paddock for a few hours a day? I have been letting her out to wander around the yard and graze whilst I am mucking out but when the yard is busy she can’t do this. When the vet came out, he did not say she couldnt have movement, but was just concerned about infection from mud. She has been coping well but is starting to get restless being in all day.

I am still bandaging it up, but wondered if / when I should leave it to air out and if there is anything else I can put on it?

My first time having any sort of incident like this!

Thank you

 

[Squeak]

I'd probably check with your vet tbh, as they've been involved. I'd hate to give you wrong advice and caused problems and on one like this it could be very easy to miss a crucial detail and advise the wrong thing.

It looks like it's healing really well though

 

[TheMule]

I'd be happy with that and turn out- it probably doesn’t need the bandage on much longer either, it looks like it needs to dry up in the air

 

[Mahoganybay]

I would be happy to turnout with how it’s looking now. My mare has had a kick in the field and has a similar looking wound (not the first picture but the second) and I’m turning out but covering it with Silver Spray.

 

[ihatework]

I’d be aluspray and turnout

 

[KikiDee]

I would turn-out with a wound that well healed, mine comes in with injuries like that quite regularly from skinning himself or playing too zealously (i.e. the partly healed picture not the original wound) and I just clean up and plaster with Dermagel. At this stage of healing I would stop bandaging and use Dermagel, it's my go-to for anything like that and what my vet usually recommends,. One of mine once sliced his fetlock open pretty badly, vet came out and flushed it and dressed the wound. He was on box-rest for a few days until the wound had closed up but he was a nightmare and went on hunger-strike and colicked so we plastered in Dermagel and turned out. Cleaned with warm saline solution every day when he came in and reapplied Dermagel, it healed really well.