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    [RC] Green splint fracture - Colleen Egleston


    If anyone has any experience with this problem, I sure would appreciate hearing it.
     
    Long story short.  I bought a starving, early 20's mare.  Two weeks into her rehabilitation she decides to get a drink and involve the hot wire.  She rears up, takes a few steps on her skinny, ancient hind legs and returns to the ground three legged.  She is holding her left hind aloft.  A vet and a chiropractor later, here's the prognosis, green stick fracture of the left femur.
     
    She uses the leg a little, but is for all practical purposes three legged.  She is on a two grams of bute a day.  Because of her debilitated state the vet suggested not to move her in a trailer to get an x-ray to confirm the fracture, she suggested waiting a month and then checking her progress.  She a sweet old girl and I'd like any advice I can get.
     
    Thanks.
     
    Katie and Penny