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Re: [RC] Vet-ish Advice - rides2farAngie- Have you got ANY KIND of plants/shrubs in the pastures with thorns? Is it possible he got a thorn imbedded in the heel bulb and broke it off? There's some sort of Crab Applish trees with long thorns, but he didn't have much of a reaction to pressing on the bulb. The little bit of dried blood was gone by the time the farrier came. If I hadn't seen it earlier I'd have never known anything was wrong in that area. I honestly worried he might have impaled something right up through the foot and out the top of the bulb. >shudder< Once a long time ago he went lame during a ride, a long way from the trailer. A tiny nick on the coronary started oozing after a day or so and I got it x-rayed and there was a stick like the point of a golf tee broken off in his foot. He wasn't nearly as lame as this then! Kaboot's only had maybe 2 abcesses in 12 years of competition. (I can only remember one really) so that's not common for him. So...any thoughts at all on the swelling between the eyes???? 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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