Check these pics out!!

[Drm2Go]

Before treating with Cooper Sulphate Crystals
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a185/nicolefrazier/LegPics004.jpg

After two applications of Cooper Sulphate Crystals (two days)


http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a185/nicolefrazier/LegPics001.jpg

So needless to say I am happy that my baby's oweey is getting better. What do you all think?? :)

[Colorado Sunset]

haha, you sound like an advert!! Im glad hes getting better, what was that from in the first place?

[Drm2Go]

Three weeks after I got her, she (what I think happened) kicked or rolled and then kicked a sprinkler that was lying down on its side with a metal stake sticking up toward the air (I did not see it :( ). So, it has been a month and it was still not healing. Thanks to some great advice on good ol' NR ;) from Tnavas (Evelyn), I tried the cooper sulphate and just two days later it looks so much better. I have been SOOOOOOOOOOO worried about my baby girl and for the first time in a month, I feel good that she might be recovering!! :D

[*Sez*]

:D Hooray! Poor little mite. Looks much better now :)

[Drm2Go]

Thank you ;)

[crazystevie]

Where can you get the copper suplhate stuff from? And how do you use it.

My mare had a kick on her hock about 2 months ago, and it still hasn't healed (typical wimpy TB), it hasn't even scabbed over. Would the crystals help?

[Drm2Go]

I got some help from a very wonderful member on this very site. If you can, read my posts under the heading "Injury Update". It is probably pretty far down the line right now, but it goes on and on from Tnavas (the lady who helped me) on how to use them. I got my Copper Sulphate at a local feed store. Before I went there I called a couple to see if they had it. If you cannot find them straight, I did find a product called Wonder Dust which had cooper sulphate in it, but I think if you can find them by themselves it is better. I also found out that these crystals are actually meant to be put into a water trough to get rid of algae (they take away the oxygen so the algae will not grow) I think it is the same concept with proud flesh. It takes away the oxygen so the proud flesh grows. If your wound does not have proud flesh I am not sure they would work but, read the other posts I talked about and then decide!! :) Hope this helps. ;) Good Luck

[crazystevie]

dumb question, but what actually is proud flesh? This cut is very red, and has not scabbed over or anything. It looks disgustuing. Its on her hock.

[Drm2Go]

Do you see that yucky granule stuff on the first pic I posted before I treated her owey? That is proud flesh. It is skin that has protruded from the inside out and gets in the way of the actual healing. It gets in the way of the cut from coming together and scabbing. It can be caused by some of the products we put on our horses owey's in order to help them. Sugar's was caused by the regimed of Furall Spray and Swat I was using. I do not think your horse will have proud flesh so soon into her injury but if it looks like some tissue is starting to push out and protrude from the cut, then that is most likely proud flesh. Before you get Cooper Sulphate, clean with iodized salt water and make sure to get any heat out of the wound by hoseing it down twice a day if possible. Did you read those posts I told you to read? ;)

[Dina]

That is looking so much better!
Glad she is getting better :)

[crazystevie]

yeah, i''ve read the posts. I've been doing the salt water thing everyday, and flushing the wound out. She's had it for about 2 months now, and it still looks like a fresh wound. It hasn't got infected though, like all her other cuts seem to. She had a tiny nick on her front leg once - i mean tiny - and we cleaned it out, and put antiseptic on and everything, and the next day her whole swelled up, and she was lame for about 2 weeks, and had to have antibiotics. Shes so dramatic, and has no immune system at all. She's an OTTB, so has probably been stabled her whole life, so is the biggest wimp ever! She still has a lump on the side of her neck from a little cut she got from another horse - and that was about 6 months ago, when we first got her. Luckily though, she doesn't get herself into too much trouble in he field.

ANyway, i'll keep an eye out for that proud flesh, i don't think she has any yet, because it still looks like a fresh wound.