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SteveSamples
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Please keep our 2 yo Izabella in your thoughts and prayers, she got hung up in a broken gate and cut her left rear cannon to the bone. Very ugly. The vet said it'll heal fine (with a scar) and it has not affected her movement. We're getting a lot of good bonding time out of the ordeal (water hose time, etc.) guess there's a silver lining in every cloud. And what is it that makes these Trakehners so smart and cooperative? They never cease to amaze me.
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acottongim
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Yikes... I know how you feel. Last year my 2 month old filly stuck her leg in a wall and cut her leg down to the bone (I never want to see that much of the inner workings of a baby's leg again!). She is 100% healed now though and the scaring is actually not as bad - it gets better all the time.
Probably too late in the year, but one of the things that helped with the healing on my filly's leg and helped reduce the scarring was Amnion (sp?). It is from when the foals are born - part of the placenta. Because it worked so well I try and preserve some and keep it in the freezer now. If by some weird chance there is a mare that foals in your area let me know and I'll send you the link on how to do it (but it has to be fresh) ask your vet about preg mares.
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SteveSamples
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The amniotic fluid is interesting. When Izzie cut her nose as a baby I wanted to use the stuff that's supposed to minimize scarring, but I was too cheap to use it on me when my car got totalled so Joanna told me I couldn't use it on the horse!
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acottongim
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It isn't the fluid.. it is part of the actual sac. You preserve it and then cut it into strips and use it as a "bandaid" for lack of a better term. It pretty much sticks to itself... Then you wrap the leg with gauze/vet wrap and the next day remove clean and rewrap. My vet kept saying "this feels like voodoo healing" but even he is a believer now - it works really really well. There is something about the sac that rejuvenates the healing process and helps - just like it helps grow the foal and nurishes the foal in the womb, it is doing the same sort of thing for the fresh wound...
I still swear by Tri Care (in a yellow tube) for the final healing and putting hair on wounds. It is around $6 and a little goes a long way and it works. But that isn't for the intial injury if it is a deep wound.
Being at several boarding barns over the years and also havng a very active, accident prone colt I dealt with a lot of wounds over the years and have gotten failry good at healing them up. Just takes lots of dedication - keepting the wound clean, wrapped, moist but not tooo moist, etc.
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acottongim
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LOVE MTG also (esp for rain rot and other "scabby" things). The only thing negative that I can say for it is that I've heard that some horses will have a reaction to it and will get worse so I would be careful the first time using it on a horse.
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