Can't STOP THE BLEEDING!!

[Glenmar]

oK. Pull her lip up and look at her gums too. They should be pink, not white.
Keep checking her, good idea.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

I hope she's alright! An old remedy to stop bleeding, for future reference, is, melted butter mixed with salt. It burns, but will stop the bleeding. Good luck with her!

 

[MakNat]

I used a couple of handfuls of flour. Never heard the butter. Pink gums and eating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BorderKelpie]

Aww, poor ol' girl.

Hang in there, horses are tougher than they look. Sounds like you are doing a good job.

 

[Glenmar]

Sounds good.

 

[welsummerchicks]

If it is spurting it can't be anything other than an artery. Horses can bleed a lot of blood and still be fine.

Best to keep the pressure bandage on it for a good while. Don't take it off to change it for a while.

A vet should see her. Horses are very prone to tetanus, hope she's up on her tetanus vaccine.

It would also be important to look very carefully and see what she hurt herself on and remove it. Or it's pretty likely to happen again. Telltale signs are scrapes on the ground or in the stall (where ever it happened), blood, hair or skin on something sharp. Common culprits are broken fence wires, nails in fences or stalls. But broken off metal fence posts(they can be broken off just above or at ground level), old barbed wire or wire dumped somwhere on the property, farm implements, tools or broken troughs or building walls.

Horses can also get 'staked' - they run into a tree or stump or fence post or rail, and force a splinter or shard of wood into their head, leg, body or where ever.

Especially don't put salt and butter on a spurting wound, it just makes it that much harder to get it to drain and keep it clean; but it doesn't do any good for any kind of wound. Some old remedies are not good. I would not recommend flour either, for similar reasons. Flour is the happiest home in the world for bacteria. The best thing is to apply pressure to a spurting wound and to not do anything that would interfere with natural blood clotting.

 

[Godsgrl]

You've gotten great advice here already. Just wanted to add-put a bandage on it, and keep it on. Add to it if you need to, but don't take the original bandage off, because it releases the pressure, and allows the wound to start bleeding again. Hope your mare heals up okay.

 

[Glenmar]

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Well said.

 

[piecemaker]

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Also by removimg the old bandage you could move the blood clot and start it bleeding agian. Keep us posted

 

[Godsgrl]

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Also by removimg the old bandage you could move the blood clot and start it bleeding agian. Keep us posted

Thank you piecemaker, you worded that better than I did.