Horse: Re: [AskAVet] unexplained lameness

Bought a new young stallion (long yearling) several years back. Got him home safe and sound and went out the next morning and he had managed to whack a knee on one of the railroad tie posts for the pens....about the size of a grapefruit! Vet checked and had tiny chip fracture....floating loose and not in the joint area so not really a good reason to do surgery (to say nothing of what was NOT in my checking account at that point!).....lame for several weeks, swollen about the same amount of time...and that knee is still slighly larger than the other one but he's sound. Had to know what they do to themselves sometimes! If lameness continues have vet check it out.

Dorothy
Colored Cowhorse Ranch
Lovelock, NV
www.coloredcowhorseranch.com
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--- On Wed, 9/2/09, mistimurr <mistimurr@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: mistimurr <mistimurr@yahoo.com>
Subject: [AskAVet] unexplained lameness
To: askavet@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 6:19 AM

I bought my husband a Appalachin Spotted Saddle horse in April, and he had bad feet. He had been stalled for over a year, almost never riden and his feet were very brittle and cracked. We had the farrier look at him, and he pulled his shoes. His hooves then started peeling, it looked like pencil shavings. Finally, his feet are sound. Yesterday I went out to groom them , I noticed him limping on his right forleg. There is no injury to the leg, or hoof. His knee is swollen, but there is no heat in the joint, and no heat from the hoof. When I checked him this morning, his knee is still swollen and his still limping. We haven't ridden him, because his feet have been so bad, and just now gotten sound, so I'm not sure how he would have gotten hurt. Any ideas?

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