[drivingpairs] Injured horse in pair

Okay, I'll help get the list going. I finally received my new, used pair vehicle, and it's really nice. It is from NEC and a marathon vehicle. So we hitched the girls up with the help of a knowlegable neighbour to get things adjusted properly, and off we went. They've driven pairs before, two Morgans, mother and daughter. We were going down a slight incline in the limerock road at a slow trot when the 5 year old stumbled and fell to her knees and of course the other one is still slow trotting until the off horse can regain her feet. When she did, her knees were awful! One was skinned good, the other a huge chunk of flesh and hide were gone! We were a mile from home, so we slow trotted home, there was hardly any blood at all, and she hardly took a lame step. We cold hosed and called the vet. He came and slapped iodine ointment on it and bandaged it. This was nearly 3 weeks ago. After 3 days I didn't like the looks of it, still dead looking flesh, so I put some sugar on it with the ointment, and that made it nice and pink again,and healthy looking. Then I did an internet search for catastrophic wounds and found a product called equaide, found where it was sold, and got some. Now nearly 3 weeks later the hole has filled in, and looks pink and healthy, and there is no proud flesh. She just needs to grow hide back over it, which takes a long time.

Hardest part has been keeping her wrapped and confined. She gets bored, so we put a round bale in front of her, so her buddies will come in and hang out with her more to keep her happy. She gets turned out a few hours a day, and of course drops and rolls, and gets up bucking! Then settles and eats grass. I had to make her a pair of pants from my sweat pants to keep her from fulling her bandages off. She gets bored easily. I am wrapping every second day and cleaning it now, and it's healing well. If I can just keep her wrapped a few more days, I think we'll have it beat.

So, I'm whining that my pairs training was set back another 6 weeks. I wanted to start off slow and do a lot of walking and mileage in general. So I'm back to single for now, but still anticipating getting the girls out when she's healed. I'll watch those down hill slopes for sure. Who would have thought those limerocks embedded in the road could be so sharp! I've been taking pictures and documenting the healing to see how this Equaide works, and so farm I'm impressed with it. I'm hoping for no scar or proud flesh for sure. It just made me sick to see the scope of the injury from a fall on a road. Has this happened to anyone else?

Debbie



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