[RC] Vet-tish advice.. - rides2farI've got several things I'd like opinions on. This morning went out and Kaboot was three legged lame...hopping lame, right fore. (didn't know he knew how to limp on the right!) I figured abcess but when I picked up his foot (no swelling in leg) there was a tiny trickle of blood from the bottom of his pastern where it meets the bulbs. I was worried about a puncture because the symptoms were so bad. Farrier was coming already. He looked, put testers on the heel and didn't get much. Testers got more at the toe. He dug a little, *might* of hit a little something but no real drainage. We put ichthammol and medicated oakum on it and wrapped it. He will stand square on it but hops when walking. When he walked back to the stall it looked to me like he was putting his weight on his TOE and hopping, so though he didn't react to testers on the heel he seemed to be protecting it. I gave him bute & a tetenous booster. I'll soak & wrap tomorrow and if he's not better by Monday I'll haul him to the vet. Another weird thing was Josie was rubbing his forehead (his heavy forelock reaches the end of his nose) and said "What's this bump?" We lifted his forelock and he's got a raised line/bump, at a slight angle between his eyes that looks like he got whacked with a 2x4 and it's raised up like swollen...but it's hard! No sign of a scrape. WEIRD! It could have been there awhile with that forelock and me not know it, but it's NOT usually there. Anybody had anything like that happen? I suppose he could have run into a low limb in the field but that should have made a scrape. 2nd...I've got an gelding here that a friend's loaned me just to have around for an extra horse to ride, and I might sell him for him. He's got a lot going for him...can you say...ROCKING CHAIR canter, smoothest I've ever ridden, just cruises along. He's a very leggy Arab so he should be marketable...but he's ribby. He's gotten ribbier while he's been here though he's getting grain, corn oil and free choice good hay. Been wormed with zimectrin and teeth done. Eats well. I'm considering the 5 day Safe-guard (Panacure purge is same thing right?) Is that known to help on one that you can't get weight on? He's not a colicy horse and eats well...just ribby. I already have some Zimectrin gold I could try to go for the tapeworms...but I'd like to have him marketable by Spring so if the Safeguard's a better bet, I'd like to get a move on. It's hard for me to feed this horse a lot of extra stuff like beet pulp because he frets if you pull him out of the herd to feed him seperately, and I don't want Kaboot to put on more weight. Right now he's getting 2/3 of a big coffee can twice daily, with a 10% protein, 6% fat, low roughage sweet feed and 1/2 cup corn oil and probiotics. He also cleans up a lot of good Tifton 44 Coastal Bermuda. Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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