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Discussion on Very Long Term Prognosis
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Redwood
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Posted on Friday, Oct 11, 2002 - 1:43 pm:
I have a (standard size jenny) donkey that is now 18 years old and fractured her coffin bone when she was three. I have been using her to pull a cart and to pack. When we have gone on pack trips, we walk and the donkeys carry our gear. We only go about seven miles in a day. I now am thinking of riding my mammoth donkey and packing this jennet. The people I'd be going with use mules and travel up to 20 miles in a day. I think both of my donkeys could do this, but they'd need to be well conditioned first.
I am worrying that distance miles might eventually cause problems with the foot that had the fracture. I know that it took a year and a half to heal and that the vet said it wouldn't calcify. Has anyone had experience with equines that have had a similar fracture and that were afterwards used for distance trail riding?
Nancy
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DrO
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Posted on Saturday, Oct 12, 2002 - 9:50 am:
Hello Nancy,
Though never having seen your partcular circumstances it is generally accepted that once healed these do not reoccur with any regularity.
DrO
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Buddil
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Posted on Saturday, Oct 12, 2002 - 8:59 pm:
Hi Nancy, my gelding fractured his hind coffin bone a few years back and it took 6-8 months to heal and he is on a full training schedule for over a year now with no problems at all. He is also barefoot now but had an eggbar shoe on for well over a year. There is no fracture line apparent on xrays at all and the fracture was a good size originally but did not involve the joint. I hope this helps, I know it helps hearing from other readers when you have a problem!
Cathy
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Ryan
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Posted on Saturday, Oct 19, 2002 - 2:28 pm:
Hi Nancy, If your jenny has a proper hoof shape that will not put incorrect pressure on the coffin bone, there is no structural reason at all it couldn't be sound and ridden however you choose to ride. Having heels that are too high will tip the cb forward on to its tip, and if shoes are added to high heels, then it would be even worse.
I have personally dissected cadaver feet that have had a cb broken, and had healed. Not crooked, or misaligned either.
It's amazing how the foot can heal.
Sounds like you are having fun  .
Melissa
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Marengo
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Posted on Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003 - 8:38 pm:
My horse has a fractured coffin bone on the wing tip. The vet says it has probably been there a long time (maybe a year or more). I never noticed any acute lameness so I have no idea when it could have happened. It was only discovered because of a bone scan to rule out OCD, which showed uptake in the hoof. (no OCD thank goodness) I am getting him shod next week, he has never had shoes. Since the fracture is old, does he still need to be on stallrest? The vet didnt advise that at all. I have digital xrays which I can send. 
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DrO
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Posted on Thursday, Nov 20, 2003 - 9:25 am:
Nice pictures Christine. If this radiographic abnormality is not causing lameness I do not see a reason to treat it. The article associated with this forum coffin bone fracture explains why you may be seeing the old fracture.
DrO
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Canyon28
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Posted on Thursday, Nov 20, 2003 - 10:34 pm:
The horses I have had with fractures were at the tips of the coffin bones.One mare I had the I dearly loved and had to have put down, had vertical fractures to both tips of her front coffin bones,and as she got older, they started to seperate, and she began to get abcesses that could not be controlled by any kind of shoeing remedies. I had her put down, after three months or so of trying to stabilize her with stall rest and special shoes, she got infection in on of her coffin bones.
the other mare is one that I have just purchased and she has the tip broken off of her coffin bone on one front, due to an old founder, I believe. She is not broke to ride, and is actually pretty sound on that foot. The other front foot got a bad abcess at the tip of the coffin which really lamed her before I got her away from the previous owners neglect. I have had her for several months now and she has stabilized with proper shoeing , but it will be some time before we know if she will be out of the woods on abcesses. She seems fine now, but the last owners vet had cut out all the bad sole which left a big hole, this was filled with plastic sole material , and until all of this grows out, we wont know for sure how she will recover. My vet said he should have come in from the hoof wall and done a resection, by digging into her sole he could have easily caused her coffin bone to completely rotate. I believe my vet told me after the xrays were done on her here that she has only 2 or 3 percent rotation. I think most of her problems were from neglect, no trimming at all of her feet in 2 years while owned by the person I got her from.
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