just on 7, i was rung to come back - he was hopping, right hind...i got there, was rining the vet from the field gate!
happily, not as bad as it looked from a distance....choice of bruise or abcess, money was on bruise due to bit of brick i found in said right hind....
in fact, another abcess at the tip... vet came down at 07.45 this morning!
so, silver feet on his right side.
and i'd texted my trimmer, of course, who was a bit stunned - and was waiting for me tonight! she'd been at the next yard along this afternoon so thought she'd call round, showed me a new trick for getting duct tape on, much more effective that wrapping round, very kind of her. She wondered if the second abcess might have been trauma induced - she noticed what i hadn't, he'd scraped a bit off the top of that foot as well...
He's out again now, best thing for an abcess is walking about not standing in.
Poor boy. Sore feet are no fun, that's for sure. But the stylish addition of the duct tape is quite fashionable.
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Two at once! Efficient to get them both done at the same time however. Not lucky for you to have to wrap two feet. Is your shoulder improving? Sometimes I think they tend to get abscesses when it's been very dry for some time, then wet again. It seems their feet could crack a bit in the dry then bacteria get in when it gets muddy and wet again. When that happens here I put iodine on the bottoms of his feet to help prevent it.
ReplyDeleteMy tip for duct tape is to build up a star pattern of cross cross strips, slap than on the hoof and bring the ends up over the hoof wall to hold, then wrap round as much as you need to. Only way I know of doing a poultice when there is only one of you.
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