Last night Will ripped his front shoe off when Speed chased him from the hay. (ALL the hay belongs to Speed, apparently). Anyway, he twisted away and the shoe/nail cut the sole of his foot, right through the laminae. When I arrived home last night, Ian had rescued Will from the evil clutches of Speed and tied him up with a hay net in the stables. But he could hardly walk and wouldn't let Ian remove the shoe. So in the car headlights (no power at the shed), with much teamwork and cursing, we finally removed the shoe and I cleaned his foot, poured about half a bottle of Betadine over it and poulticed and wrapped it up. Luckily, I am very practiced when it comes to bandaging and poulticing with Animalintex (don't know what I'd do without it and I always have some in the horses first aid kit) as I had a gelding years ago who regularly needed his feet wrapped due to abscesses.
The vet Tracey came today and is concerned the nail may have scratched the pedal bone so he is on antiboitics and has his foot poulticed all the time. But she also did something I'd not seen before....she soaked the Animalintex in a solution of Iodine first, then placed that on the foot, then wrapped it. What a great idea! Keeps the antibacterial Iodine right there with the drawing properties of the poultice. Thanks Tracey! So Will is out of action probably for a month. Hopefully he will have a speedie recovery. He's lapping up all the attention!
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