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Member:
quatro

Posted on Wednesday, Sep 8, 2010 - 11:04 pm:

Dr. O, I did a stupid thing, I should know better. I had my little mini ground tied outside while I was working in the barn, a customer came in and i left her unattended for about 5 minutes. I came back and she had broken her halter. I did not look at her closely and walked her back to her yard.
About a half our later, my worker gal, said Lacey had cuts on her legs. Apparently she had gotten twisted up in the rope. It was a cotton lead rope, but she did give herself several gashes. One on her pastern, even up on her hock, and a brush burn on her coronary band. I feel so awful.
They do not look terribly deep, but I washed them with some warm water and dawn dishwashing liquid, sprayed it all down with cold water, dried her leg, applied furazine (sp) ointment, don't have any spray, I don't think, will look tomorrow. I did put ointment and wrapped the pastern, coronary band wound with a gauze pad and some co flex.
I read that you can give bute, however, I have questioned a few locals, and did not know if this was ok to do, since she is most likely pregnant. I called my on call vet, who did not have an opinion, she did not even know the dose for a 200 lb little horse, so I opted to not give here anything.
She also did not have any vaccinations this year, as the guy I bought her from did not want to vaccinate her since she was bred. I can't believe he did not vaccinate pre breeding, since she was bred 6/18/10.
Should I get her a tetnus shot? Also, what about bute? Dosage and can you give it, if she is sore? She was not limping, actually came running in for dinner tonight.
More to worry about i guess. What was I thinking adding to my herd?
thanks
suz
Member:
vickiann

Posted on Thursday, Sep 9, 2010 - 6:22 pm:

Dr. O would need to answer but the tetanus given after an injury (VS that given in a vaccine) is supposed to be hard on the liver.

Such wounds can be pretty slow to heal.

When it is to a stage where it would be good to dry it up, furizone spray might be better than ointment but I know of some who have used blue lotion successfully for such leg wounds.

Good luck with this. Lots of people have made this mistake.
Moderator:
DrO

Posted on Thursday, Sep 9, 2010 - 6:55 pm:

Hello Susan,
When it comes to bute in minis I pretty much treat them as horses. You will find answers to all your bute questions at HorseAdvice.com » Treatments and Medications for Horses » Anti-inflammatories (NSAID's, Steroids, Arthritis Rx) » Phenylbutazone (Bute).

If her tetanus vaccine is behind by all means have her vaccinated. It is not the vaccine that is hard on the liver but the antitoxin. We do not routinely recommend giving the antitoxin and you can read more about this in the Tetanus article.
DrO
Member:
hpyhaulr

Posted on Thursday, Sep 9, 2010 - 6:55 pm:

I know I sound like a broken record... BANNIX!
so far we have used it on hot spots (dogs), scratches,rain rot, rope burn, open wounds (all those were horses).
Member:
quatro

Posted on Thursday, Sep 9, 2010 - 11:22 pm:

I have a product called Granulax, it is a spray antibiotic. I will have to list the ingredients tomorrow.
I did a betadine scrub,and put granulax and then reapplyed the flura stuff and wrapped her foot. It looks good, she is not limping and is clean looking. I hope I dodged a bullet.
I will check into the Bannix Cindy, it can't hurt to have around, especially with all my dog stuff here as well.
I am assuming Dr. O, from reading the article, that Bute and pregnant mares is not a good thing unless absolutely necessary. So I am glad we skipped it.
Will update shots asap
Member:
hpyhaulr

Posted on Friday, Sep 10, 2010 - 7:58 am:

I made Walt get his own bottle to travel with. I told him if he took mine, lawyers would get involved. The only reason I know it works on the rope burns is because I did exactly the same thing you did and got the same result.
Now, about reinventing the wheel?.....
Member:
vickiann

Posted on Friday, Sep 10, 2010 - 1:25 pm:

I have had a Veterinarian suggest Granulex for a deep cut type of leg wound and have also used it for a hoof avulsion.

It removes deleterious tissue so helps prevent proud flesh, but you should try to keep it off of the surrounding tissues or clean it off if it runs beyond the area of the wound.

You may find that you have to rotate the product (or only use for a few days at a time) with other remedies as it is pretty potent in the way that it acts with the tissues.

In my experience it worked pretty good.
Moderator:
DrO

Posted on Saturday, Sep 11, 2010 - 8:52 am:

Granulex is a product that is designed to break down dead tissue using the proteolytic enzyme trypsin. I do not recommend it routinely for wounds, unless that is my goal. This is rare as I try to debride away anything that appears dead to speed wound healing. My recommendations for topical wound treatments are in the article on first aid and long term wound care.
DrO
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