Re: Off and on limp

["C. Eyler" <eyler@mindspring.com>]

Hi Maryanne,

Sounds to me like he may have an abscess brewing.

My gelding went through many weeks of intermittent lameness.  Sometimes he
was three-legged lame (one time, that extreme lameness disappeared in the
two hours it took my farrier to arrive -- thank heavens she knows I'm not
crazy).

No one could get any reaction to hoof testers.  And my vet assured me that
he'd pressed really hard.  Finally, after three months, Jack blew out a hole
in his coronary band that was over an inch long!  Evidently, the abscess was
very high up in the hoof.  It took another two months before he was no
longer sore after even minimal trotting in the ring.

Of course, the hoof wall that grew out afterwards was a mess on that side.
No more lameness, though, until the worst part broke off and left him
slightly lame for a week or so.

Good luck.

Cindy



----- Original Message -----
From: "Maryanne Stroud Gabbani" <maryanne@ratbusters.net>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@endurance.net>; "Equine-L" <EQUINE-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:38 AM
Subject: RC: Off and on limp


> I dragged myself out of bed at 6 am this morning to join some friends
riding
> in the desert with some American tourists. Had a lovely ride around the
> pyramids of Abu Sir and Sakkara. Turned out that the ride was a favour to
a
> tour owner who doesn't like to send real riders to the pyramids stables in
> Giza....there's an interesting opportunity for a retirement career for
> myself and a couple of friends. Anyway, everyone had a good time on horses
> borrowed from my stable manager, Morad and his uncle Magdy who happens to
be
> the Reuters chief for Africa and the Middle East, so he knows almost
> everything and everyone and was the perfect tour guide.
>
> HOWEVER, when we got back I looked at Bunduq and he was a bit off on the
> right front. Did The Check: no heat, no tenderness if we banged on the
hoof
> wall or sole, so signs of swelling. He did this twice before recently and
> was fine the next morning...even the same evening. This has been going on
> for about 3 weeks now. He limps, we rest him even though there is no sign
of
> a problem, we go out...mostly walking in sand, too hot for anything
> else...he comes back with a limp. He's a pretty crafty pony but I don't
> think he's faking it because then we'd have a problem going out and it's
> always coming back. (Please don't suggest he wants to run away from home.
> He's the littlest horse in the stable and rules the roost.) Any
suggestions?
> Morad and I are going buggy over this.
>
> Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
> Cairo, Egypt
> maryanne@ratbusters.net
> www.ratbusters.net