SDBoerGoats, HORSE FAIR IS OVER!

[Remuda1]

If you've got ice boots, that might help and banamine or bute for the pain and inflamation might get her moving more and help keep that leg from stocking up so much. Painting the leg with DMSO before you apply the numotizine (love that stuff) may help to draw, especially if you sweat it with plastic wrap. Whatever wound she has down low would probably benefit from hydro therapy with a hose as well. I would definitely try to keep it open so that it can drain and also heal from the inside out.

Good luck with it. Its only the good ones that hurt themselves! Used to drive me crazy

 

[SDBoerGoats]

I've been wrapping with saran wrap and Numotizine, and hosing the whole leg in between wrapping. I am about ready to do the DMSO therapy we used to do long ago. DMSO mixed 50/50 with Furacin and painted on the leg, then wrapped with saran wrap, cotton bandage and vet wrap. I give her bute twice a day. It bothers me that she will only put weight on her toe. She gets tired of standing on the one leg and sometimes hops on the good leg to get pressure off the other if only for a second.

NOW for the update, I didn't have any vet wrap left last night and the feed store was closed. So last night just put the Numotizine on it. Well, the whole leg is swollen and warm again, but the coronet injury is looking better.

One of the other 4H leaders told me she has an ice boot I can borrow, so I am off to pick that up!

Note to self, buy a CASE of vet wrap, so you always have it on hand, horses use it, goats use it. Just HAVE it on hand!

Baby kids have been flying around playing like they are on speed. What ever they had went away fast. Still very puzzling.....

 

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

Wow, poor Sparky... Grr.. I'm jeaulous, I want horses !!

Glad the kids are doing better hope what ever it was decided it was done with them and disappeared, LOL !

Whats DMSO therapy??? Best wishes for Sparky !

 

[Remuda1]

Hey SD, I'd be very concerned that she's not getting any more relief than that with bute every twelve hours. Might be time for IV antibiotics and a vet farm call. It doesn't sound like she's responding much to the Uniprim. The ice will inhibit the growth of the bacterial
infection somewhat, but it really sounds like it might be time to pull out the big guns. Best of luck, I wouldn't wish the worry on anyone.

All of the supportive therapy you're providing is great. I'll keep my fingers crossed that the swelling and pain are greatly reduced come morning.

 

[SDBoerGoats]

Remuda, my thoughts exactly! I am hoping my vet is in tomorrow because I have decided we need a visit. I know the cut is going to look worse before it gets better but I didn't like the way it looks at all tonight. I did hydro therapy on it and knocked off some bad flesh but I think it's time for something stronger.

Cochin, DMSO therapy is something vets had us do in the past, when you have an injury on a horse, like a swollen leg or hock. You mix Furacin and DMSO half and half. The Furacin is an antibiotic and also helps keep the DMSO from burning the skin. You paint that on the injury, wrap with saran wrap, cotton bandage, then vet wrap. It sweats out the soreness and bruising. Not to be used on open wounds. UNLESS you get a cut on a horse, usually below the knees, that ends up getting proud flesh, then you would put the same formula on the proud flesh and keep it wrapped, and it will dissolve the proud flesh. You have to change the wraps every day. I have done this for years and had amazing success with healing. Never had a problem with it. One day a lady brought us a horse to heal up because she had done the same therapy, but left the bandages on for 4 days. When she smelled a bad smell, she tried to take the bandages off, and she literally peeled off the poor horses hide! She was horribly scarred. So now I think twice, I never once had an issue but then I have never ever left a bandage on for more than one day.

 

[Remuda1]

Good deal SD. If you don't already use them, check out Jeffers Equine for your vet wrap..... And any other supplies for that matter. I also use Jeffers Livestock for the other livestock and animals we have. They have a great selection and I haven't been able to beat their prices. LOVED getting my orders in when I was training the horses , it was like a mini Christmas.

Another thing about DMSO... It's actually an industrial solvent and is found in tack shops everywhere. It has the ability to pass through the skin. Using it in combination with other meds will carry those meds through the skin. This is one reason why it's a good idea to use gloves when you mess with it. If you get it on your skin, you will taste a garlic like flavor at the back of your tongue, blech!

 

[SDBoerGoats]

Oh I know that taste well, and it seems like you can never get rid of it. And when I am using it on a horse, they have the same nasty breath! I had forgot to mention that it carries the Furacin through the skin too and that is also a reason our vet had us mix it 50/50. Well, I know my clinic is open tomorrow, I just don't know if my horse vet is in on tomorrow.

 

[SDBoerGoats]

So it poured all night long, and this morning started coming down with a vengeance. I am standing at the window, looking across the road at the farmer's hay field, all cut and in the process of being baled, getting ruined. And the field of meadow grass hay that my goats and horses love, is being soaked too! A couple were in the bale, the rest is laying there. WHY WHY WHY does it do this, in the HIGH DESERT, always, the second half of June, when the hay is ready to cut? The farmers lose so much money, people like me are waiting on the new crop of hay, well, I did manage to get one beautiful 950 pound bale. That field was put in the barn, but the guy told me that most of it has a bad cheat grass problem. My bale is awesome, but I quit buying hay from him last year for that reason, full of cheat and foxtail.

Well, no appointment for Sparky today, as my vet is not the one who is on this weekend. The other guy is more a dog/cat vet and I seriously question his ability for that, SOOO Sparky will be going in Monday morning at 10:30. I hope nothing changes for the worst in that cut. I am going out now to change the bandage and wash it well. Give her the Uniprim and bute.

And I am thinking about putting Vetricyn on it. I have used that for everything to do with my goats from pink eye to cuts and it heals well. I've used it on me too, and yes, it does heal. So why am I afraid to use it on Sparky? Cause she's a horse? And I don't want anything to happen to her to make her not able to use that foot and be ridden again. I know it was developed for horses and all kinds of horrible wounds and infections have been healed with it. But still I am hesitant. I know for sure it won't HURT her, maybe help her.

The baby goats are all jumping around acting like they never had a sick day in their little lives. GOOD FOR THEM! At least something going the right way this week!

 

[Remuda1]

Hi SD, how'd she look at the bandage change?

 

[SDBoerGoats]

Ehhh...... I guess the actual infected part of her coronet looks better. But the swelling is bigger. The leg didn't go completely down, even with Numotizine and wrapping, there was heat when I unwrapped to hose it down. I did hydro therapy on the cut, I should post pics so you can see the cut in the beginning, and now, it is swollen more around the coronet band. She is eating her Uniprim, so she is getting antibiotics.

Stopped at the other 4H leader's house to pick up an ice boot, heading out now to put that on her for a while. I think it needs to get much colder than what my water is. So will go get that taken care of, and keep hoping for some progress.