Taxes - Wound Progress & April 15th birthday boys

My little angel turned one yesterday along with my stud who turned 5. I posted on the birthday boys on my main blog http://prophotobylori.blogspot.com/ but here is another shot of Blue and what he thought of it all.

The wound is nearly gone, it is amazing that it has healed as well as this you can hardly see anything. When he sheds his winter coat it may be more visible but there is just a small lump which was where the triangular tip of the skin was when it was ripped.

This will hopefully be the last of his wound progress.

Lori

Taxes - Wound Progress - Part 2

I didnt get to clean the wound today so a lot of the dirt around the wound you are seeing is from the mud when he has been running, but the wound is making fabulous progress. I am not surde yet if he will have a bald patch or not but I dont think it will be as big as I first thought it would be.


Lori
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Update on Taxes and his Accident

I took a few shots of Taxes this evening. He has been so good about flushing the wound but is not mad about having me removing the dead tissue and seems to have been taking pretty good care of keeping it clean himself. The skin is a nice healthy pink and I continue to spray it with the antibiotic spray and think it is doing really well. I managed to remove some of the black today and will just keep plugging away at it.

There is ice everywhere here and I dont want to risk him slipping on the ice and snow outside so I am having to put his leg into a bucket in order to flush the area and not get everything wet and he has been very good about that. The handling daily is also helping with his manners although he is still a brat and desperately wants to play with everyone and everything.

Will keep you posted.

Lori

Taxes Treatment Day 1

I am very pleased with how he has responded to the flushing, I filled a gallon tub with warm water and flushed the wound out three times and he was soooooooo good. Then I sprayed it with an antiseptic spray and he didnt have a problem with that either. Good boy.


I will take pics every few days and then once a week to keep up with progress. Pics today are ones I posted before on my other blog when he was 3 months old and was playing with his Jolly Ball. He ran into the fence the next day and cut his back leg up.


Lori

Taxes Has Done It Again

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Well Mike your little buddy has been up to his tricks again. I was out feeding yesterday morning and had just put all the horses out and partitioned off the section where Taxes gets to have a bit more space and play over the partitions with the two other colts (MiKael calls it face boxing which I love). I was cleaning up and the next minute I looked up and this is what greeted me!!!!! I have hunted high and low to try to find out how he did this but cant find anything, no hair on something, no evidence at all.

That triangular flap at the bottom is just a flap of skin. At the top the muscle got torn a bit too but fortunately not too badly. We had two options, anaesthetise him (it is very very cold you can see the breath vapor in the top pic) and stitch him up and hope that he doesnt pull the stitches out, or leave it as it is and flush it with sterile water and use a clear antibiotic spray on it four or five times a day.

As most of you know, Taxes is a little tyrant and has a very strong personality so we decided on the leaving it and trying to keep it clean while it heals. It looks absolutely dreadful. He likes to bite everything so I know he will just have it all open again in an instant which is what happened when he cut his hind leg on the wire a few months back. The added bonus is that because it is still so cold we have no flies, which can be a terrible problem in the summer with open wounds.

So I will keep you posted on his progress here, but it is going to be a few months to get this fixed at least.

Lori

Taxes - Wound Progress - The Outcome

(Taken 6 November 2007)

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It has been a while since I posted an update on this wound. I didnt really photograph much during it's progress but here is what his leg looks like today, took this a few minutes ago. He has a bit of a lump where the scar is but as you can see it has healed really well, far better than I envisaged. Oh and bear in mind that as a typical stud colt (that needs to be gelded soon) he was trying to bite me and play with me the whole time I was trying to get this shot LOL.

Lori