This message is from: "Karen McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Any ideas, also how common is this?
Thanks for any ideas:
Mark and Sandra Skeels
Lord's Farm Fjords
Mark,
out of 15+ foals, only one I have bred had contracted tendons. Really,
really badly contracted, to the point he was on his knees. He was a large
colt, and it was the smallish dams first foal, She was fed 3/4 grass & 1/4
alfalfa hay & rec'd a mineral supplement.
The vet suggested we surgiclly intervene to correct the problem, but we
thought that was a bit too drastic, so consulted w/ a homeopathic vet, and
another local (conventional) vet, and we splinted the foal, and did passive
massage with ruta gravolens and arnica montana 3-4 x daily (basiclly when he
was down for the count sleeping), for about 1.5 weeks, and he came out of it
w/ flying colours and perfectly straight legs. We spent a small fortune on
bandaging cotton, gauze and vetwrap, but that was a drop in the bucket to
what a surgery would have run us, and I am not convinced that it would not
have had complications.
This colt is now a strong and healthy gelding named Rocky Hill Arne, and is
part of a pair of driving fjords owned by Pat & Dave Schumaker in
California.
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