How do I keep my horse from cutting her legs.?
My old lease (who was young but extremely sensitive and thin skinned) also used to cut her legs from laying down. You mean a round somewhat shallow abrasion/cut in roughly the same spot on both her knees/ankles/hocks correct? not actual slashes or gashes? If so then one thing to do is wrap her legs in cotton and secure it loosely with vet wrap. Another is to smear lots of Vaseline on the spots she is cutting. Doe s she sleep outside like mine did? If so and its bad enough, consider moving her inside, she will not get cut in bedding. If she is getting actual cuts then she might have found something sharp in her field, try and fin and remove it. Good Luck!
Help i gotta horse with a cut artery.?
ok well my 2 year old filly got her leg stuck in the round pen yesterday and cut her artery in her leg. I called the vet he told me to just put gauze around it and vet wrap and to make sure i had it tight to increase the pressure to stop the bleeding. Well i did that and he told me to change it after 10 hours. when i did the bleeding started back and it was none stop until i could get the bandage back on good enough. Should i continue changing it every few hours or keep it on there a while. I think it needs air and i don't want the scab to grow on the bandage as well, but when i take it off it starts all over again. She lost about 2 gallons of blood before we got it stopped. No one could catch her and she just kept running and running she finally stopped long enough for us to get a halter on her and we bandaged her up. I would call the vet again but they are closed for the day.
My horse just cut his lower leg?
its right above his ankle and i was told it was a unstichable area, he isnt limping or anything and he seems to be doing fine but the cut is pretty deep and on the back side of his leg. the vet is coming out in the morning and i have already cleaned it and wrapped it with antiseptic ointment and a gozpad and self adheasive wrap, any other suggestions?
My horse has a cut on his leg and it's deep and we're putting furisin on it but i don't know if i wrap it?
You should run cool water near the cut but not directly onto the cut to kind of flush it out. If its really deep and you think it needs stitches call the vet immediately, stitches are most effective with in 6 hours of the horse getting cut. You should also see if you horse is lame when he walks/trots, especially if the wound is near a tendon. What did he get hurt doing? Make sure he doesn't have an additional injury that isn't as visible like a strained/torn tendon or ligament/bruising. Feel for heat or swelling in the leg. Furicin is great. Because the cut is on his leg, definitely wrap it because there is a TON of circulation to the legs. If you don't wrap and keep pressure on it the wound will grow granulation tissue or proud flesh which will prevent it from healing properly unless a vet either gives you a cream or cuts it off. Also, you may want to give your horse 1 gram of bute twice a day for a few days. When the cut scabs over, then you can let it air out to heal more for a few hours at a time but then wrap it again to prevent swelling. If it doesn't scab over, laser therapy is amazingly effective. You should wrap it with non-stick telfa pads directly on the cut followed by a layer of conforming and then a normal standing wrap on top of that, cellophane wrapper is also good to use with the furicine i. I would recommend putting your horse in a stall at least for tonight but you don't need to if you really don't want to. Make sure you check/clean and re-wrap the cut daily and call a vet if any signs of infection show or if it gets worse or doesn't heal. I hope that helps!
Horse cut rear leg to the bone, outcome?
I'm coming late on this, and just have a couple suggestions. I worked with human injuries of this nature for many years, and have not owned a horse injured in this way, but have known many others who have been. I would advise you not to use any harsh abrasives like iodine or hydrogen peroxide, or other products containing caustics intended to treat proud flesh. All of these have been shown to destroy delicate cells needed for healing, and to actually promote formation of proud flesh. A product that I use, and that is excellent for healing ulcers and wounds that require granulation to fill in gaps, without promoting proud flesh, is called EMT ointment. It is a collagen gel, and I recommend that you ask your vet about using it on this wound along with the saline flushes. It is available online, and at tractor and farm supply stores in the US. This gel adheres well, reduces pain and itching, inhibits microbes, and supports rapid, correct tissue healing better than anything I've seen. This injury can heal in correctly and represent nothing worse than a blemish if the right treatment is offered. I hope you will discuss using EMT with your vet.
If a horse has a large cut on their foot do you wrap it with vet wrap or leave it alone ? HELP ASAP !!!?
Haha i love how everyone gets soooo upset about other peoples horses getting a cut...they always want you to immediately rush the horse to a vet! Well they dont have to pay the bills!lol I deal with this all the time! Like said above me, a medicine boot or even a bell boot would be the best thing, with vetrap under underneath it...keep a balm-type medicine on it, change the bandage 2 times a day. You'll just have to judge how fast its healing as to when to take it off....i'd give it about 5-7 days! If he was in a stall i might leave it unwrapped part of the time, but in a pasture i would keep it wrapped! Good luck!
Horses leg swollen from wound?
I was grooming my horse yesterday and noticed he had a cut on his inner back leg and that it was swollen... The wound looks like a puncture and its scabby and puffy. Per my trainers advice, I washed it with some medicated shampoo, twice, leaving the shampoo on for 5 minutes the second time (because that's what the directions on the bottle say.) I then put on some ointment that we use on all the horses cuts around the barn. Not sure what it is exactly because it only gives its scientific name on the jar, so I'm assuming it came from the vet. Then I wrapped both his back legs and gave him some Bute. He is normally on pasture board, but I have access to a stall if I need it. We decided to leave him out last night so he could move around and increase circulation. My trainer said we'd watch it for a few days and if the swelling doesn't go down we can give him an antibiotic shot. Is there anything I should do differently? Would salt water be better than the medicated shampoo? Should I use a poultice for the swelling?
How would you treat a rope injury on a horses leg?
A tetanus booster should be administered asap, especially if vaccination has not been administered within the last 3 to 6 months, but I'd recommended it regardless. Rope burns not only damage surface tissues by friction abrasion, but heat generated by the friction penetrates deeper layers of tissue to extend the degree of damage. Also, fibers from the rope often become embedded and evoke immune over-response and increase risk of infection, including by clostridial bacteria that produce tetanus. Rope burns warrant veterinary debridement asap, as well as tetanus booster. Another problem with rope burns resulting from a lower limb becoming tangled in the rope is that the tendons, ligaments and associated tissues are situated just beneath the skin and this means that the risk of invasion of these structures by pathogenic microbes is high, as is the risk of serious injury from the trauma inflicted when the rope tightens while the horse is freaking. The concentrated pressure and/or displacement of these structures can do significant damage. All of this warrants veterinary evaluation sooner rather than later. My advice is to contact your vet asap and schedule an evaluation, and in the meantime flush the wounds with sterile 0.9% isotonic saline solution at room temperature using moderate pressure, and if you can get it, apply Vetericyn wound gel to any open wounds.. Vetericyn is the only wound care product on the equine market that will not interfere with healing or with anything the vet may need to do in the way of treatment, while inhibiting infection without promoting antibiotic resistance and keeping the wound bed moist which provides the optimum environment to maximize the horse's own natural, beneficial immune functions. I would not wrap these wounds with out veterinary advice, and you should never administer antibiotics without veterinary direction to do so based on valid, professional medical rationale for their use. You can buy sterile isotonic saline for wounds at your local drugstore, or make it yourself by dissolving 3/4 of a teaspoon of non-iodized table salt into 500 ml of well boiled water, then use a large sterile syringe to squirt it onto the wound after it has cooled to room temperature. Isotonic saline is balanced with body fluids and will not kill healthy cells needed for healing or evoke immune rejection responses as other commonly used disinfectant solutions will.