Last night my 2week old miniature foal came in from the field lame on his right, front leg. He'd previous been fine only an hour before hand because we'd been in the field checking him. Left him for the night to see if it was just a pull muscle or something like this.
This morning straight away i could see he was lame again... but this time front LEFT leg. Called vet and we carried him next door to the vets. When over there and walking it was obviously he was lame on both the front and back leg on the left side.
vet is mystified as to why though... his feet are a little warm but all 4 the same..., no heat or swelling in the legs, he is happy to flex them and will bear full weight on all except the left front leg which he is reluctant to put down properly. She scraped out his feet and no sign of any abcesses. His temperature is normal and she ran blood and no sign of any infection brewing (she was checking for joint/navel illness)
He is bright, active and very alert, but obviously in a bit of pain. She hasn't given him anything today, wanted to see if it got worse, better or stayed the same... 11hours on no change to him, except he is getting bored being coped up in the stable.
No sign of being kicked, or having bumped himself either and no wounds to be found.
Farrier is out tomorrow so will be getting him to have a look and he seeing vet again tomorrow as well.
So far... all we have is a lame foal... but physically he is fine and no reason can be found for him being lame...
Anyone able to shed some light on this? As obviously i'm still rather worried about him but we can't find the reason for his lameness!
This morning straight away i could see he was lame again... but this time front LEFT leg. Called vet and we carried him next door to the vets. When over there and walking it was obviously he was lame on both the front and back leg on the left side.
vet is mystified as to why though... his feet are a little warm but all 4 the same..., no heat or swelling in the legs, he is happy to flex them and will bear full weight on all except the left front leg which he is reluctant to put down properly. She scraped out his feet and no sign of any abcesses. His temperature is normal and she ran blood and no sign of any infection brewing (she was checking for joint/navel illness)
He is bright, active and very alert, but obviously in a bit of pain. She hasn't given him anything today, wanted to see if it got worse, better or stayed the same... 11hours on no change to him, except he is getting bored being coped up in the stable.
No sign of being kicked, or having bumped himself either and no wounds to be found.
Farrier is out tomorrow so will be getting him to have a look and he seeing vet again tomorrow as well.
So far... all we have is a lame foal... but physically he is fine and no reason can be found for him being lame...
Anyone able to shed some light on this? As obviously i'm still rather worried about him but we can't find the reason for his lameness!