Hey! So this is my first post. Hoping I will get some advice if anything so...
My horse has had swollen back legs from the hock to the fetlock for about 10 months. They have not been hot, painful, no lameness, not tender, no behaviour change, still eager to run around his field, eating, all body functions working. Every time I rode him, the swelling would go down. The vet did blood tests, nothing. she just said to excercise regularly and hose them with cold water. I did this religiously. He has 4 stockings so mud fever is always a risk. He did get mud fever before I brought him but it appeared to clear up nicely.
3 weeks ago, I came to his field to find him hopping lame! Not weight baring looking very very unhappy immediately I phoned a vet, they gave pain killers and antibiotics thinking it was some sort of infection. A week into taking the antibiotics the swelling had gotten worse, particularly around the hock and the lower pastern area all on the outside of his leg it scared me because it looked broken but it wasnt. The skin got very tight and broke due to the swelling ( I presume) 2cm wide circular areas that just looked like sores appeared 3 at the bottom and one at the top. Straight back to the vet I went panicking and she wrapped it up. 2 days later I go up to his field and the bandage has slipped down. It has to come off, I rebandaged it with clean ones and left it. It happened again three times. Every time I took the bandages off clumps of what I can only describes yellow fleshy gunk fell from inside and it was oozing. 2 out of the 3 sores started to break down into one big sore yet I noticed that the top sore by the hock had dried up because the bandage had kept slipping of it. So I chose to take the bandages off. I used hibi scrub, purple spray, green antibiotic flynrepelent, have cleaned it am and pm, and it's just getting no better and now clumps of hair is coming off around the sores and the outside of his leg.
Basically my horse has been on antibiotics for 3 weeks. Has a big 2 inch wide and about an inch deep lesion ( practically a big hole that is not heeling) by his fetlock and it is seeping and oozing and his leg is still swollen! Not as much but Nether the less still swollen... if I press on it yellow gunk squirts out the top lesion. the Vet has said it is a black thorn but i have no idea and I don't feel as though that that could cause this much damage!!
Any one had anything similar? Any ideas? Anything at all??! Please nothing negative. I have tried hard to prevent it getting worse and racked up a hefty bill from the vet with no results . I love my horse dearly and I'm devastated I can't wave my magic wand and make it better for him.
My horse has had swollen back legs from the hock to the fetlock for about 10 months. They have not been hot, painful, no lameness, not tender, no behaviour change, still eager to run around his field, eating, all body functions working. Every time I rode him, the swelling would go down. The vet did blood tests, nothing. she just said to excercise regularly and hose them with cold water. I did this religiously. He has 4 stockings so mud fever is always a risk. He did get mud fever before I brought him but it appeared to clear up nicely.
3 weeks ago, I came to his field to find him hopping lame! Not weight baring looking very very unhappy immediately I phoned a vet, they gave pain killers and antibiotics thinking it was some sort of infection. A week into taking the antibiotics the swelling had gotten worse, particularly around the hock and the lower pastern area all on the outside of his leg it scared me because it looked broken but it wasnt. The skin got very tight and broke due to the swelling ( I presume) 2cm wide circular areas that just looked like sores appeared 3 at the bottom and one at the top. Straight back to the vet I went panicking and she wrapped it up. 2 days later I go up to his field and the bandage has slipped down. It has to come off, I rebandaged it with clean ones and left it. It happened again three times. Every time I took the bandages off clumps of what I can only describes yellow fleshy gunk fell from inside and it was oozing. 2 out of the 3 sores started to break down into one big sore yet I noticed that the top sore by the hock had dried up because the bandage had kept slipping of it. So I chose to take the bandages off. I used hibi scrub, purple spray, green antibiotic flynrepelent, have cleaned it am and pm, and it's just getting no better and now clumps of hair is coming off around the sores and the outside of his leg.
Basically my horse has been on antibiotics for 3 weeks. Has a big 2 inch wide and about an inch deep lesion ( practically a big hole that is not heeling) by his fetlock and it is seeping and oozing and his leg is still swollen! Not as much but Nether the less still swollen... if I press on it yellow gunk squirts out the top lesion. the Vet has said it is a black thorn but i have no idea and I don't feel as though that that could cause this much damage!!
Any one had anything similar? Any ideas? Anything at all??! Please nothing negative. I have tried hard to prevent it getting worse and racked up a hefty bill from the vet with no results . I love my horse dearly and I'm devastated I can't wave my magic wand and make it better for him.