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Not Just Nails
Pieces of wood and thorns regularly puncture horses’ soles, and Brock explains that these are usually more difficult to deal with than metal because they tend to have the same appearance on radiographs as the surrounding tissue. Also, once the surrounding flesh moisturizes them, they become difficult to grasp. They also continue to migrate farther up into the foot.
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Maggots had traveled through the hoof from the blowout on the heel to the original puncture hole in the sulcus. Later, more maggots were flushed from inside the hoof. |
Brock worked on a horse not long ago that wasn’t treated properly in the beginning. The horse had an old puncture wound that another veterinarian had only treated with icthamol and then sent home. Two weeks later the horse came to Brock, with what turned out to be a punctured navicular bursa. The horse will never be right again, he says.
“All of that could have been headed off if they hadn’t put a toxic chemical in there, and if they had taken an X-ray and saw what had been penetrated and gotten aggressive before the secondary reactions began occurring,” Brock explains.
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