Hate to see what my vet bill will be

[4jpainthorses]

I was going to post this last night but I was to tired. Saturday morning I went out to check on my dun mare (the one that had tetnus earlier in the year), she is due to foal and she had stopped eating. Well she hadn't eaten but when I got to her pen I noticed that my bugs alive yearling was gone from her pen. I started calling her and she nickered from the trees behind the round pen and all I could see was blood. I go through the fence and get to her and she is cut up all over and covered in blood all over her left front leg and both hind legs. I could see a big hole behind her left front leg and between her hind legs at the top, she was ripped open on her left hind leg.
Of course the trailer is at the ranch and not the house.
So we leave her where she is (she's not going anywhere in her condition) and head to the ranch. We quickly throw feed out to the barn horses while I am calling the vet. Being Saturday, they are booked up and only one vet in (we also have a horse show that has not been called off yet) He says just bring her over and leave her and he will see us when we get there.
So we go back to the house with the trailer and drive out behind the roundpen. (Luckly it is at the top of the hay meadow and on high ground so it wasn't to wet to get in there). We looked at the fence and she had gone through and over the barbed wire and took out a T post and a sucker rod with her body. We get her started walking and she jumps right in the trailer.
So we carry her to the vet. Meanwhile, all of the bleeding has stopped. The vet puts her in a pen and says that he will have someone check on her frequently to make sure that the bleeding hasn't started back. Says that he will work on her when he closes at noon.
So we leave, and head back to the ranch to finish tending to the horses and switch trailer to go to the show. Almost back when we get the call that show has been canceled (thank goodness).
When we get back I call the vet back because I forgot to ask him about the dun mare not eating and having watery stool. Haven't seen baby move in over a week either. So he says that since the show is cancelled to bring her and come back about 12:30.
So back we go, stop by the house and pick up dun mare.
Back at vets. Checks dun mare first. Good news he palpates her and baby is still alive. Checks her for worms, has a few pinworms and some other kind. Nothing bad. He worms her, gives us meds to give her for 5 days to settle her stomach. She was still grazing but not eating well.
Now to filly. Nothing that can be sewed up except one cut on left hind quarter. He flushs all wounds out with hose and washs all with surgical cleaner. He says that he would not put her to sleep to sew up that one cut because there was nothing he could do for the others as far as sewing goes so she doesn't need the trauma of being put to sleep. Gave her antibiotic and told me to do water therpy twice aday, hoseing out the puncture wounds and to mix some furisone (SP?) with water and squirt it in the wounds twice aday. Give her pen. and genimaicane(sp) shots on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and one gram of bute a day.
I took pictures but left the download cord at the barn office so I will do them tomorrow. Warning they are gross.
She is doing better.
Tell you more tomorrow
Sorry so long

[lunanightwolf]

Oh my gosh!? Thankgoodness they are both okay. I would have had a heart attack if anything like that happened to my mare. espically right now. We have a very thin rope up in her pen to block her from going into a certain part so it will grow grass. I hope they recover okay. I prays out to you.

[4jpainthorses]

She is so good natured about everything. I wish I knew what spooked her through the fence.
She has to stay in a clean stall until all of the puncture wounds are healed which could be months. When I get to the barn in the mornings, hubby has already fed and she is waiting at her door for me to take her to the stock to run cold water on her. She just stands there while I wash all the wounds out and then doctor them. The wound on her hind leg where the muscle is hang out is already starting to pull back up into place. It still looks gross but looks way better than it did Saturday. When I get through with her morning doctoring, she walks back to her stall and waits for me to go get her some hay.
For her afternoon doctoring I do it right before we feed so that when we get through she gets her feed. In the afternoon is when I give her the bute.
This afternoon she was so funny. Some friends were at the barn that had come by Saturday to see her. When I got through doctoring her and gave her the shots, I started back to the stall with her and she just stoped in the hall and would not move. Friend were petting her and talking to her and she would not move. I handed her the lead rope and said hold her a minute, I forgot something. Filly is looking all around, I walk over and get her dose of bute and give it to her and before I can even get the cap back on it she walkes to her stall. It is like she was looking around waiting and saying you forgot my pain med. She is to smart.
Thank God she is so laid back and good natured about everything. I would hate to have to being doing this to a yearling that was antsy about everything.
The owner of the barn where we are says that now she is going to be a great horse because it is always the good ones that get hurt. They had one that got hurt really bad as a colt and went on to win the paint and pinto youth world.

[lunanightwolf]

Awe! I wish my mare was like that when she got rope burn. She tried to kick us when we would put the medicine on her. You are so lucky to have such a sweet and smart mare. And that thing about the colt That's awesome!

[mart]

Sorry to hear that 4j !! Hope both horses do well and the filly heals up OK !! Maybe the vet will take pity on working folk and won`t charge an arm and a leg !!! Let us know how she does !!!

[4jpainthorses]

I have pictures downloaded on computer. I am going to try to put them straight on here but may have to go through photobucket so I can reduce them. First 2 are from rear view of torn out muscle on upper left leg. Muscle is hanging down between her legs. Last picture is of cut on left hip

[4jpainthorses]

Picture of puncture wound behind left front leg. Hard to get one of that. There is another puncture wound in top inside of left hind leg but can't get a picture of it. We didn't even find it on Saturday. I found it on Sunday when I was washing off dried blood.
Also there is a picture of her before the accident.

[EquinePhotographer]

Sorry to hear she got hurt! I sure hope it doesn't keep her from having full use of her legs when this is all healed up. Poor thing.

I found a good thing that works with major wounds like that. Get yourself some Wonder Dust and mix it into the NFZ (nitrofurazone). Not only will it stick to the wound easily, but it will keep flies out and keep proud flesh from growing too. Don't know how well you're going to get it to stick into the wound between herlegs, but even if it's only on there a few minutes it will help. Flush it with warm water and gentle iodine mixture (mix it so it looks like weak tea). That will really help keep it clean.

I had a colt put a huge puncture wound into his ankle a few years ago. I could stick my pinky finger into when we first discovered it. I used a syringe and flushed it with an iodine/warm water mix (looks like weak tea) to clean it out a few times a day. After a couple days the skin dried up and fell off and it was a hole you could easily put a golf ball in. I used the wonder dust/NFZ mix and packed it in there really good and wrapped it with a gauze and vet wrap. It healed up really fast, no scars, no proud flesh and no hinderance to movement.

Anyhow, good luck with her and the dun mare!!! ((HUGS))

[lunanightwolf]

oh my gosh that is bad. At least it's not too bad. I mean, at least she's alive. I hope she heals up well. but she's a very very smart little girl so maybe it won't happen again. It's possible she spooked herself. My mare spooks herself all the time when i have her on her lead rope. My mare finds things to spook herself. That's one reason why she's for sale. I can't have a horse that is a boogie looker.

[4jpainthorses]

This has not been my week. Yesterday, my palomino mare, the gay bar king, sonita's last mare, coliced and died on me. This is the one with the 2 month old palomino and white stud colt. At least he is eating good because he is now in a stall and weaned. When vet came out, he gave her about 2 hours to live and she lived nearly 4 before she gave it up.
Don't know if I will sale the colt or not now. I might sale him so I can get another broodmare. That is the only way I will be able to afford another one and if I keep the colt I will geld him anyway.
He did check on the filly while he was there and said that she was doing good and just keep doing what I have been.