Arab Mare, pasture pet 14-notice endema high on both sides of shoulder blade 7/3 and very slight lamness on L.front._expression_ dull. walked like a shoulder lamness, I checked her and couldn't find heat or fever-Turned out with 2 geldings and mini-donkey been together for life. She is #3-pasture has trees which try to keep limbed, Ramm fence. I figured-maybe something spooked her and she ran into the side of the stall openings of barn I keep open, or a tree. Looking again I saw tiny blood flecks on coat, and found a tiny puncture hole/scrape on her withers scabbed over- I thought-pellet hole(I do have 5 country neighbors one one side, some with chained pit bulls & there are young males around(hence; paranoya). I started doxicyline I had on hand and bute-Holiday weekend-at the time not sure they were related- could have been a horsefly bite , or ahanging down tree branch or rolled on a rock(very rocky here)- But odd place for a puncture- Stayed about the same,Monday, very much lamer, but swelling going down in shoulder ,but looking like some swelling starting near withers.- Called my country vet. (he seem diligent...He had another vet- new-with him.No temp.Really examined her leg on that side.used hoof testers,( which I dont' like)-said she was sore on inner front quarter-(preface this with- I was on a neglect cycle with my trimming, she should have been trimmed a month ago, but I was behind. She has flat feet anyway in front and tends to grow forward,shoes or bare(no grain, even has a pasture track). She was really short from chipping and I had even nipped a piece off a few days earlier,thinking it was going to make her sore... He checked the other foot, which I said may act sore too, she sores easily I even put her on a hoof suppliment as she only gets grass hay and bits of grass. Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. Check it out.
