Pics of Achilles Tendon Laceration

[Festus]

I finally got my blog done to help share the story about my mare with the achilles tendon lacerated completely in two. If anyone cares to see, it has GRAPHIC photos of her injury so beware. Heres the link , hope its allowed here
Horse injuries that should have killed: Miracle horses...

I'd also like you to post a comment if you've had experience with similar injuries before and what the outcome was. Thanks :)

[mart]

Do you know how the injury happened ?? Great work with her, btw !!!

[Festus]

Thanks mart. Yes, it happened when a wild boar got into the pasture and cut her tendon with his tusk. It happened just before daylight and the scream she made when it happened is one I will NEVER forget.
Im also going to try to get some better pics of her alive & well today up on my blog today. She's a beautiful mare and so is her filly.

[mart]

Yeah !!! We have a bunch of wild hogs in this area too !! They don`t come in our pasture as these horses don`t like anything here that doesn`t belong here !! They run everything out !! Guess the hogs decided it wasn`t worth the effort to fight 9 PO`d horses !!

[4jpainthorses]

What a great job you did.
I had a mare years ago that broke her lower pastern bone on the right front foot. Our vet put a cast on her from below the knee to just over the top of her hoof. He told me that the bone would heal but the cast would get dirt in it and she would have worse injuries from the cast than the break was. So everyday, twice a day I would wrap the top of her cast with a polo wrap to keep the dirt out. At 6 week, his x-ray machine was broke, so he told me we needed to wait a week to take the cast off so that he could x-ray it when he took off the cast. When he took off the cast at 7 weeks, he was totally shocked. There was one small sore about the size of a dime at the top of the cast about 1/2" below the top. There was no dirt, grime or sores anywhere else on the leg. He wanted to know how in the world I had managed that. When I told him, he said that from now on anytime he had to put a cast on a horse he was going to tell them that they had to wrap it everyday to keep it clean.
She raised me 5 good babies and the only time that it ever bothered her was about the last month or month and a half before she would foal. She would run and play on it and keep up with the other horses if she couldn't see you. If she saw you watching her she would stop and start limbing to you so that she got extra attention. She was a great mare with a great personality. Hope your mare gives you as much joy and wonderful babies as Ada did for me after her injury.
The vet had told us after x-raying her that I could special shoe her and run her on barrels again but I would never even consider it. She was to special a horse and I knew if she ever broke it again, we probably wouldn't be able to save her a second time.

[Festus]

Yeah, my vet told me that women are extraordinary when it comes to taking care of an injured horse. He was amazed and told me another story about a lady with a racehorse that came in with a fractured pastern. Long story short, he went on after she took care of him and won his races the rest of the year and is still winning today.

I have another horse that lacerated his extensory tendon completely in two while he was at the trainers house. His leg has ugly scars but he ride, runs, bucks, like it never happened. It was 7 months getting him healed not including the physical therapy.