After
crushing thousands of pills with a spoon in order to mix them with molasses to
squirt into mouths with a turkey baster over the years, my vet finally tipped me
to using an electric coffee grinder. Doh!
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ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of ladurgin@xxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:21
PM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] Silly horse
update
Thanks everyone. I found silly horse, Scout lame this
morning. Swollen around the gash a good 8" diamenter which made the
gash gape open a good 1" inch wide-- (and I didn't get sick when I looked
at it so after talking with my daughter again--called the vet. I got
one of the young,newer ones (there are 4 now) but seemed bright, except
when he bent over to pick up his bucket within 4 feet of my horses back
end. I said "you realise you are within kicking range "? (I did
tell him, Scout was gentle, but hasn't had the groundwork the others have
had and is weak on manners. Now I can do that around mine, but I
always let the horse know I am there and usually make them move or have a
hand on them. We tranq.'ed him and still had him dancing a bit
while he cleaned and checked to make sure debris wasn't in the wound. Got
a Penn. shot and some antibiotics to give him and I will hose with
water daily as much as I can. He said It was on the joint, it
could have been stitched (but it was about 18 hours after the gash when he
got here.) I didn't see how you could stitch there and it not pop
open.... Anyway he said he'd heal faster if his movement
was limited, so while I stalled him and Rascal for company as the 4 horses
and occasionally a bray from the donkey hollered at each other when
ever the others went out of sight--- son #2 and I made a 50 by
50 electric rope fence connected to the 3
stalls. They are used to being out 24/7 with matted stall
access if they choose. And I couldn't see locking him up in a 10X12 stall
(he is 16 hands), serious buddy sour and he'd paw the door-- anc probably
eat a hole in the wall. Actually while there for a couple hours they
both started chewing on the stall doors. Scout knows how to open latches
as does my mare and Rascal knows they can open them,
so he set about to bite something open too. More restaining for me.
Last barn had hardware cloth on the doors. I switched R.
for the Old tb for company as I have to feed him 2X a day to keep
his weight up and he is #1 horse and the quietest . But boy will there be
alot of fertilizer bwtween the 2. Fun part will be
getting him to let me hose him again, he got very distrustful of me and
anything in my hand after we squirted with the turkey baster the
betadine solution.Made it harder to even fly spray him>I had to go out
and give carrots and just brush him , but he is suspisious of
containers now. More carrot work ....... If I do
things in small doses, with familiar things in between like brushing
or rubbing, he relaxes. And I had just gotten him where I could hose
him without dancing circles. Hoping this silly fall won't
cause any serious damage. I guess the bigger they are the harder they fall. Old
horse Champ took a fall in a pasture that was the start of his
synovial tear in his knee--which looks like a ballon and has
arthritis now,even after treated years ago . And have
to figure out how to get him to take 10 pills @x a day.I will crush and put them
in water and try to get him to eat it in a beetpulp mix. Otherwise I may have to
syringe.hah----- maybe in yogurt or applesauce.....played that game with
R. before
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