This message is from: Lauren Sellars <sn...@nethop.net>
Fjords rarely have abscess problems. The two times that it did happen here I had the vet find the exact location . Then I put a heavy layer of bentonite clay over the spot duct tape it on. Over night it was cured. We also use bentonite on wasp stings. It just sucks poison right out. Amazing and cheap stuff. You can buy it in a wine making shop. just add water .
Good luck Lauren mypump...@windstream.net wrote:
This message is from: <mypump...@windstream.net> Hello List. I have gotten only 1 or 2 digests in a couple weeks, so I am wondering if there is a technical problem or is everyone out riding or driving? Anyhoo, Willi has an abcess again. Same foot, left front if it matters, that had one in March. This is going on 3 weeks. We soaked and soaked in his own personal Hoofcuzzi, and poulticed with Animalintex for about 2 weeks. I did have an x ray taken after about a week, and saw the abcess and no bone chip or whatever else. One week ago tomorrow, I switched to a Magic Cushion poultice, and his lameness worsened significantly overnite. Hmmm, we thought, this is drawing out the junk. Vet came Saturday, brought his farrier friend, and they hoof tested and scraped, and determined the abcess had moved from the point of the frog, over to the side, like at about 10-11:00 so to speak, on the hoof, same place as last time. They made the soft spot bleed, but no infection came out. We repoulticed with Magic Cushion. Willi is as lame as a duck. Bad. Really.
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