WARNING ..GRAPHIC PICS !!! I might have to put him down...any ideas ?!

[currycomb]

it looks terrible, but i have healed up worse! alternate furazone under wrap one day, wash with running water daily, leave open to air with wonder dust or scarlet oil(flies stay away from scarlet oil). it has to fill in with granulation tissue. can't tell from pics, but just might be sore. Did horse walk on it right after getting hurt? if he did you should be ok. it is swollen and painful. the key is hydrotherapy, good old garden hose, whatever it takes to get it done, build a chute to hold horse still if necessary. good luck

 

[BluegrassSeramas]

Here is some more advise and pictures. Hope it helps.
My brother's mare Ginger had about 30 acres to run in a new paddock on the farm where we keep the cattle.
Of course the minute she was in there she ran to the one section of barbed wire and slid down it.
Here is what the wound looked like:

(yup, that is pretty much her foreleg muscle hanging out.)

We called our vet who is great and he gave meds and sewed the muscle back in there. They stitches came out and the wound was all gross like your horses' is.

Here is what my brother and I did (he works at one of the top Equine Hospitals, Rood and Riddle in Lexington, KY)

He gave her the max dose of penicillin, I think that it was 2x a day.
You would want to ask your vet, and know the weight.
(I suggest it ASAP, I have had horses my whole live and worked around them, and you need to get that if you are not using it NOW)

We gently hosed off the wound 2x a day and used a syringe with no needle to flush out the wound with some kind of antiseptic. You can use peroxide sometimes, but dont use it all the time.

You want it to heal and dry up and you do not want proud flesh (or flies it it)...After you let the horse stand and dry a bit, USE WONDER DUST if you have any proud flesh. The wound cannot heal correctly with proud flesh. The wonder dust is caustic and can deteriorate healthy skin also. You can spray some scarlet oil or some nitrofurazone on the wound and re-wrap it.
I like to let the wound air out a bit in between bandagings, so that some of that nasty stuff can get some air and scab up. You just want to keep the flies out of it.

***You can get cheaper bandages at a human medical supply centers. We were using lots of the absorbent pads and getting them from the feed store, they were 7 bucks each, and 3 for the vet wrap. Found the same stuff for less than a buck each at the Med supply store (where they sell wheelchairs, oxygen tanks, potty chairs and other first aid stuff)
Here is Ginger now!

Remember!
Penicillin!!!!!!!!
CLEAN and DRY! At least 2x a day!

 

[BluegrassSeramas]

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CLEAN IT EVERY DAY, and more than once!

My vet works with large animals and my bro works at an Equine hospital, you would not BELIEVE the wounds that horses can heal from. They do need antibiotics and for the wound to be clean!
Change that bandage and gently hose it out!

Also, if he hates hoses and needles, you are going to have to do some gentle training with him. Start hosing near him and if he reacts calmly, move the hose away.
Then bring the hose back, slowly in until you find his "bubble" just before he looks like he is going to move (that's the hard part-maybe a shifting of weight, or raising his head a little) Then you stop the hose where it is until he relaxes. Take it away, bring it in closer slowly.....
You have to do this over and over and over and over until his "bubble" gets smaller and smaller.
Some people suggest start touching the horse with the water on the back or side because the horse is naturally protective of his feet and legs (where predators would bite) and some start with the feet. I say whatever works for you and your horse.

 

[chixie]

I wish you lived near me... we had a quarter horse filly 11 months old trip and fell into a tractor disc (at the place I used to keep her) we took her to this vet in beaumont texas and she had over 100 stitches (we lost count after 100) in her face ... we sold her a year later and the people showed her... you could never tell she got hurt...

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

PENICILLIN!

Did the vet come out & look at him?

And chose to leave that open? (Rather than stitch is closed?)

I HIGHLY recommend GRANULEX spray--it combats proudflesh. Also, CATRON is a fly-spray to use on wounds to keep flies out.

When Bart (one of our horses) got hurt last summer, my vet mixed up a combo of FURAZONE & DMSO for me to shoot into the wound to clean it out & keep it moist.

I hosed it, cleaned it & medicated it EVERY night for MONTHS.

Bart was on penicillin & bute and then we bought some SMART TENDON from SMARTPAK and put him on that for two months. I also used CUT-HEAL once it was on the mend. Bart is rideable today and barely shows any signs of being ''off".

Did the fence hit any bone/ tendon/ ligaments?

What type of fencing was it?

Any wire type and the horse should have an updated tetanus shot, as well.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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I'm sorry you are dealing with this, but I think the first thing you need to do is get a new vet! YES! You should be cleaning it every day, probably twice a day and rebandaging at least that often. Changing bandages on a wound like that every couple of days is only letting infection sit in the wound. If pus is coming out, it needs to come OUT, not be left on the wound to continue festering for two days. If you are in an area where a different vet isn't an option, you need to call your vet, tell him to get his a$$ out there, sedate your horse, CLEAN the wound thoroughly, and pack it with iodine-gauze. THIS LEG AND THIS HORSE ARE SALVAGEABLE!!!

Good luck to you!!!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Do you have a trailer? The vet I use (although far away) is the BEST....not the cheapest, but not like going to a university, either... you need a NEW VET.

Another awesome vet is Dr. Ray Randall in Bridger, MT. Again, a far drive (farther than Twisp) but he was my professor for my equine classes in college and I highly recommend him, as well...

 

[emvickrey]

I am a strong believer of warm salt water. My mom was a diabetic and she had gotten gane greene on the tops of both feet from a bad burn. The doctor had her soaking her feet 3 times a day is strong warm salt water and he would pick her up and put her on the ocunter with feet in his sink in the office and scrup the dead skin and what infection or green was there. When she wasn't soaking in salt water she was to keep neosporin on them and wrapped. They healed and he saved her feet.

My dog had a bad skin infection. When I discovered it, it had puss just oozing out of it. I got a bucket with warm salt water and soaked his head by holding a soaking wet wash rag on it and then I would rub. I kept that up until I got all the pus off, then gave him a bath in antibacterial dawn dish liquid. then neosporin on his head. Infection was gone. Next day when I went to feed and water he had no pus at all.

I have a chicken that had the skin ripped away from her almost entire neck by a cat. I soaked her neck the same way as I did the dog, cleaned out all the dirt and junk then packed with neosporin. This is the2nd day and still no infection.

So I suggest you try it. Can't hurt unless the horse kicks you.

I would get a bucket with very strong warm salt water dissolved and a rag and go and soak it first and rub a little to loosten it up. You'll probably have to change the water a few times but after you get all the infection off, finish up with what ever the vet said to do.

The salt draws out the infection and it doe'nst burn as if you just poured salt on it.

I will say I know very very little about horses but I would try it if it was me.

 

[SangaChicken]

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Maybe YOU should have read all the posts. She's 200 miles from the nearest vet, doesn't have a trailer and she doesn't have the financial means to seek additional treatment. She came here for help and advice. I consulted my vet before responding, and I also have 26 horses I own/take care of daily as do many of the posters here.. she asked for help, we're helping. I agree that an ideal situation would be driving it to a University like Starksville (MS) or some other fantastic clinic. It's what I would do. But I'm in a position where I'm fortunate enough that I could, she however, can not. So cut her some slack. I would never stop reading posts here.. they have saved many of my small animals with holistic and inexpensive treatments.

 

[SangaChicken]

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Absolutely disagree. Flys will lay maggots, and though maggot therapy can be a good thing, her horse sounds to be slightly unstable (Doesn't tolerate water, was fighting over a fence, won't take a shot in any capacity) and if she can't handle him to get those things done, she may have trouble handling a maggot filled wound properly.