Ridecamp: Re: [RC] warning on pipe panels, and question

Hi Karen
There are magic elixirs for scratches (I believe Trailright has one-- 
right, Becky?) but beyond the elixirs (I use Fungicide in a pinch) the 
main thing I've found which helps is keeping it UNCOVERED (when I 
bandaged it as my vet suggested, it got FAR worse!) AND spraying 
waterbaby (high SPF) sun block on it daily. The sun makes it worse. When 
I started putting sun block on it, it went away REALLY fast!!
Good luck!
Bette

Sullivan wrote:
> I have a heads up here....for an injury my horse received while horse 
> camping.  (Northern Calif)
>  
> About 3 weeks ago, some friends and i went horse-camping at Lake 
> Corville Horse Camp.  Oroville
> has been so fortunate to have a supervisor who is horse-friendly, and 
> has promoted the development
> of a great horse camp.  The camp is laid out well, with drive through 
> sites, pipe panels, hot showers,
> wash racks, and a new round pen with sand.  The trails are great and 
> maked well.  We had camped
> there in June, which was too hot, and wanted to come back in the fall.  
> We discovered, in the months since June, that the old feeding/tie 
> stations had been removed, and more pipe panels added to the inside of 
> the circle. 
>  
> As the camp was pretty full...I put my horses in these new panels.  
> Now...they are a bit smaller than most panels
> I have seen at horse camps (Jack Brooks, Cuneo Creek, etc).  We got up 
> Sunday morning to find Shasta with
> a back hoof covered in blood, and a cut that went really deep down into 
> the hoof, heel bulbs and coronary band.
> Upon examination, we noticed that these new panels (Powder River), were 
> not round pipe (like the panels on
> the outside of the loop), but U shaped, with an opening at the bottom of 
> each pipe and an edge.  It does not
> feel very sharp to the touch, but obviously will cut deeply when a horse 
> rolls and gets a foot under the rail and
> panics. (you can tell if you came up against it hard it would cut).  Had 
> she got a foot under a round pipe, she
> might have banged or bruised her foot, but not cut it .  I told several 
> rangers, and also called Park Headquarters.  My farrier also said that 
> typically, Powder River panels are considered more for livestock use, not
> horses.  So.....a warning on Powder River Panels.....don't use them!  I 
> feel bad about making a complaint about
> an otherwise, very good horse facility, but don't want other horses 
> hurt!  With the corrals being so small (10 x10), it is inevitable that 
> when horses roll, they might stick a foot through....If you go to 
> Oroville, use the outside pens.
>  
> So....here is the question.  With having to keep this darn cut wrapped 
> (changing every day), cleaning stall twice a day, darn horse is still 
> getting wrapping wet by sticking foot in water bucket, or new poop 
> pile......so while the cut is keeping fairly clean.....the continued 
> moisture against her pastern has caused........SCRATCHES!!!   Okay, what are
> the magic ingredients?  How do I kill this stuff??  Anyay, the injury 
> was bad enough this horse will still need to be wrapped several more 
> weeks.....
> Karen


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Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians
Home of 16.2h TLA Halynov
who lives on through his legacy
Hal's Riverdance!
http://www.arabiansporthorse.com


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