Fw: Gelding's Nose

["Janet Baca" <horsetrl@ctaz.com>]

Janet Baca
-----Original Message-----
From: Janet Baca <horsetrl@ctaz.com>
To: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Monday, August 24, 1998 11:49 PM
Subject: Gelding's Nose


>Hello everyone,
>Thanks so much for responding to my two other posts.  Have a real problem
>here.  The gelding that freaked when I took him out alone (Dar) and dumped
>me scraped his nose upon trying to exit the horse trailer.  This was
>approximately 3-4 weeks ago.  This deep scrape has now turned into a blood
>mess with flies covering it when he wipes the Swipe off and the Panalog.
>Have tried a lot of different things.  Our new vet Darla has come out
twice.
>He's a real goofball in that he likes banging his nose against everything.
>He's a big loveable goofball but he has gouged quite a hole in his nose
>above the nostril on left side just over the curl in the nostril going
>toward the eye.  I have had him on 1/2 gm of Bute twice a day for a week,
>Panalog cream off and on (was trying something else too), washed out with
>diluted iodine or Betadine, slathered with Swipe (fly deterrent with some
>antiseptic(?) properties and now on 30 gm of Penicillin, 15cc in am and
same
>in pm.  He is rubbing it all the time.  I see blood everything, feeder that
>has now been taken out so he can't rub on those, water bucket, pipe corrals
>and most of all, the mare with him.  Got any suggestions?  I'm at my wit's
>end on this one.  Thanks for your suggestions.
>Janet Baca
>