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[RC] Problem Child - Prognosis - Timothy WordenThank-you to those who replied with words of encouragement and ideas of what's wrong. Poco looked horrible when we went to see him after work. We finally got a pile of saw dust in his temporary corral. He was so happy to lay down in the soft sawdust. His poor body was so exhausted. We were of course worried to death that something serious was wrong. It's very easy to expect the worst. The vet was able to visit this evening. We told him what was happening and that we thought it was his shoulder area. Of course being the doc, he knew otherwise and went right for his hoof testers and hoof knife. First good squeeze with the testers.....YOWZA!!! A little scrape with the knife....sure 'nuff...the feet. His prognosis is a possible abscess or some sort of infection in the hoof...probably all his feet. The cause we could not pinpoint. So like our other two gimps(who are now much better), Poco just needs time to heal. Hopefully our one and only sound horse out of the four will not get this hoof deal also. The vet looked at her quickly and she was good. But she's the only one who's been on hoof supplement for a few months now due to horizontal cracks. Guess we'll bite the bullet and put all our horses on the stuff. Currently we're using Grand Hoof by Grand Meadows. Well, it's been an exhausting night. I can't imagine my wife and I having human kids. These 4 horsey kids keep us busy and broke as it is......but we wouldn't have it any other way:) Tim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= http://www.endurance.net/ads/seabiscuit.html Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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