Timmy's gone lame on the right front. He began acting a little gimpy on it two days ago and by yestarday, he went full blown limping badly lame, hopping around on it. So this is the start of day 3 that he is lame and he is 1 week and 2 days old now.
My first suspicious of course were the worst, joint ill, but that already got ruled out since he had the blood tests and cell tests etc.
But somewhere along the line, he's hurt himself somehow and I don't have a clue how. Holly is very careful around him, but it is possible I suppose that she did step on him. I just don't know what happened.
He's not "sick".....vitals etc good. He is still extremely frisky and wants to run and play. He can canter and jump for a few minutes, and put weight on it, which leads me to believe that nothing is broken.
I cannot see any swelling or feel any heat.
I was beginning to think that it's the new gravels that we have put down in the walk paths and it hurt his tender soles. But I don't see any brusing and then why would it only be sore on 1 leg? He has to walk some 150 feet from his stall to his turn out area. He does not have to walk in the gravels but he did jump in them the other day being the boy he is. So Jerry and I have been putting iodine on the bottoms of his feet, but still no change in doing that. I did try soaking his hoof on that side too which lasted all of 3 seconds. That doesn't work. Besides, I can't tell at all if this is hoof, leg, knee, shoulder......can't pinpoint the problem.
While I am waiting for the vet to open I am just wondering if I should keep him in the stall for now and not have him have to be walking on it to turn him out. This is one of those situations where I don't know if putting him out on the soft warm grass and having him move around excessively outside would be better than having him stay in his stall forcing him to be more "quiet"
I have some banamine (shot) here and I'm thinking that maybe I can give him some of that. I just don't know.
My first suspicious of course were the worst, joint ill, but that already got ruled out since he had the blood tests and cell tests etc.
But somewhere along the line, he's hurt himself somehow and I don't have a clue how. Holly is very careful around him, but it is possible I suppose that she did step on him. I just don't know what happened.
He's not "sick".....vitals etc good. He is still extremely frisky and wants to run and play. He can canter and jump for a few minutes, and put weight on it, which leads me to believe that nothing is broken.
I cannot see any swelling or feel any heat.
I was beginning to think that it's the new gravels that we have put down in the walk paths and it hurt his tender soles. But I don't see any brusing and then why would it only be sore on 1 leg? He has to walk some 150 feet from his stall to his turn out area. He does not have to walk in the gravels but he did jump in them the other day being the boy he is. So Jerry and I have been putting iodine on the bottoms of his feet, but still no change in doing that. I did try soaking his hoof on that side too which lasted all of 3 seconds. That doesn't work. Besides, I can't tell at all if this is hoof, leg, knee, shoulder......can't pinpoint the problem.
While I am waiting for the vet to open I am just wondering if I should keep him in the stall for now and not have him have to be walking on it to turn him out. This is one of those situations where I don't know if putting him out on the soft warm grass and having him move around excessively outside would be better than having him stay in his stall forcing him to be more "quiet"
I have some banamine (shot) here and I'm thinking that maybe I can give him some of that. I just don't know.