My 2 year old filly injured her Left rear pastern about 10 days ago. I do not know how she did it, it looks like a twine-tangle injury, but I could find no twine!
I feed round bales and remove the twine when it goes into the feeder. She is also kept in a pipe-panel corral. Each panel has a center section of flat metal to support the pipe rails, and if she had rolled and put her foot through the panel, I suppose she could have kicked the double flat metal and injured her pastern...but the wounds were even in depth/width and the upper one curved around her pastern for a bit...so I don't think it could be the fence.
The wounds were parallel, and about 1.5" apart, diagonal and ran from her heel bulb area and up, the uppermost wound curving around her pastern to the inside. Stitches not required.
I applied Furasin for the first three days and Corona for the remainder of treatment. It has been almost two weeks, and it has stopped having scabs to clean up at application-time and is no longer 'open'.
I have been told that she will scar because the skin over bones has less blood flow than skin over muscles. I have been hoping that by continually applying the Corona will allow everything to stay soft and perhaps heal without scars...what are my chances of her healing without scarring?
Heidi
I feed round bales and remove the twine when it goes into the feeder. She is also kept in a pipe-panel corral. Each panel has a center section of flat metal to support the pipe rails, and if she had rolled and put her foot through the panel, I suppose she could have kicked the double flat metal and injured her pastern...but the wounds were even in depth/width and the upper one curved around her pastern for a bit...so I don't think it could be the fence.
The wounds were parallel, and about 1.5" apart, diagonal and ran from her heel bulb area and up, the uppermost wound curving around her pastern to the inside. Stitches not required.
I applied Furasin for the first three days and Corona for the remainder of treatment. It has been almost two weeks, and it has stopped having scabs to clean up at application-time and is no longer 'open'.
I have been told that she will scar because the skin over bones has less blood flow than skin over muscles. I have been hoping that by continually applying the Corona will allow everything to stay soft and perhaps heal without scars...what are my chances of her healing without scarring?
Heidi
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