my horse has a injury on his hind leg it is a swollen lump what should i do i dont want proud flesh?

Question

its on his cannon bone i just dont want any scares hes young and im planning on showing him iv never had to deal with this before.

Answer 1

Call the vet! We can't diagnose diseases from a Q&A board, sorry.

The vet may need to clean up (as in cut away) the edges of the wound and stitch it back together. You also have to be on the lookout for it getting infected, and your vet has to be the one to prescribe antibiotics.

The sooner you get him treated the better. The longer you wait, the more germs are going to grow. You also get a cleaner wound line (less of a scar) if it's attended to it immediately.

Good luck to you!

Answer 2

Is it open or closed? If it is opened you need to irrigate it out. First get some preety warm soapy water. Clean all round it and with a syringe squirt some of the soapy water up inside of it. Get some iodine and squirt some of that in there too. Do this for a week or so. Don't let the sore scab over. You need to keep it open so that it can drain. If there is a large lump it is possible that your horse has an absess. Maybe from a wound you didn't know about or maybe he was kicked my another horse. I am by no means an expert, but we raise horses and do all of our own doctoring. We do use a vet once in a while, espcially in the case of a severe absess, so if you are in doubt, call your vet. Just from the little you wrote, I doubt that it will be proudy. Good luck!

Answer 3

Well first off are you using any antiseptic sprays or any topical ointment to help prevent any infections? If it's an opened wound you shoudl get the vet to look at it. If your affraid of proud flesh it may need a stitch or two! Are you keeping it clean (sometimes wrapping it with a bandage helps)? Get some self sticking bandages and use those. A cold compress may aid in the swelling. Watch out for infections though I lost a horse due to a really bad one (caused by a splinter in the hock at that!).

Answer 4

Use scarlet spray. This will help prevent proud flesh. You can but this at Tractor Supply, etc.

Also, if you're an experienced horse person you should know that you don't always have to call a vet for every little thing. If this cut doesn't need stiches, I would just cold hose it and use the scarlet spray.

Answer 5

If it is a wound thats down to the bone I would call a vet out asap. Its a very serious situation if it is down to the bone. If it is a wound thats superficial than I would suggest getting some neo predef powder from th evet and putting that on it. The neo predef will help heal the wound and prevent proud flesh. Good Luck

Answer 6

i would get a vet to come and look at him. if you see some scarring developing, try and stop it quickly.

a good way to help prevent scarring is a product called wound balm. go to www.dynamiteonline.com. go there and click on 'browse products', from there click the little icon that says 'i don't have a dynamite distributor' and continue. you should see a page with a bunch of little icons that represent all the products, click on the one that says 'miscellaneous', then there's a list of the miscellaneous products. click 'wound balm'. there's information on it there.

if you're interested call 703-474-4654. it's a really big jar and it lasts a long time and you can use it on any animal or person.

best of luck and i really hope that your horse will be okay!

Answer 7

Your terrific guess could be to call the vet out to envision what is going on. The swelling of returned legs is worry-unfastened in horses who're left status in for hours and days on end interior of reason regularly occurring. it particularly is a lymphatic and circulatory issue and could bypass down if she is able to stroll around for 0.5 an hour or so. although, often it does no longer reason warmth and lameness. Stiffness confident, yet no longer lameness. Your horse ought to nevertheless have an infection interior the legs - entered via the unique an infection. chilly hose, and walk her around for 0.5 an hour or so, and additionally while she stands in, use good bandages in the back of. rather you mustn't be giving a horse bute till the vet has been and recommended it, with the aid of fact it ought to hide a issue, making you, and the pony think of it particularly is okay to do issues with the pony, while possibly it particularly is no longer, for this reason making it worse.

Answer 8

First of all you should call your vet!

Second of all, if your vet say's its an appropriate way to treat this injury, you can use light compression wraps. Don't do it without asking the vet though, you could end up with a permanently lame horse.

Answer 9

Get the vet out there ASAP. It may just be a reaction to, say, a bee sting, but it could be something worse.

Answer 10

Call the vet - now!!! Stop wasting valuable time posting questions on here.