Duncan has an injured tendon on the leg with the old splint bone fracture. My suspicion was confirmed when the vet/chiro came to work on everyone a few days later.
She looked at me and said “yep and you know what to do”, as this isn’t my first rodeo with tendon issues. I just had to find where I put everything.
And why do these things have to happen when there’s “ice on the pumpkin”? I took a solid 3/4” ice plate out of the unheated water tub this morning.
Icing or cold hosing legs is not what I want to be doing in our 20+ (F) morning weather, and truthfully I did not. I put the red light therapy pad on his leg, massaged in sore-no-more liniment, then wrapped his front legs for turnout. And turn means out in the big pasture because there is no doubt Duncan will try to jump the fence if he is separated from Rusty. He would probably make it half way and cost me a big vet bill, so he’s better off walking around quietly, instead of pacing & whinnying like a madman.
I put Joker’s (RIP) old Back on Track Quik Wraps on Duncan when he comes in at night. I have a big inventory of BOT stuff. They have always been great to help, so I called them for advice on turnout leg boots for tendon issues. The arthritis in my hands is cranky on a hot day in July and is really not up to correctly wrapping quilts & standing wraps on legs when the temperature is in the high 20’s (F).
I ended up buying their Opal Exercise Boots. https://www.smartpakequine.com/pt/b...V7ClMCh2fRgP1EAQYAiABEgI-t_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
They are supposed to be here next Tuesday. I hope so because my hands just don’t work fast enough and still be accurate to put old fashioned wraps on. Plus Duncan still thinks that old splint bone fracture still bothers him, and maybe it does, but either way he keeps lifting that leg up and down adding to the time wrapping takes.
The very nice gal at BOT said these Opal wraps are pretty much dummy proof and that works for me
Lastly, Duncan is not lame - not one smidgen. I only know he did something because I had the misfortune to see him stumble running on the flat in the pasture, and he had a big heated bump on his inner leg that night.
She looked at me and said “yep and you know what to do”, as this isn’t my first rodeo with tendon issues. I just had to find where I put everything.
And why do these things have to happen when there’s “ice on the pumpkin”? I took a solid 3/4” ice plate out of the unheated water tub this morning.
Icing or cold hosing legs is not what I want to be doing in our 20+ (F) morning weather, and truthfully I did not. I put the red light therapy pad on his leg, massaged in sore-no-more liniment, then wrapped his front legs for turnout. And turn means out in the big pasture because there is no doubt Duncan will try to jump the fence if he is separated from Rusty. He would probably make it half way and cost me a big vet bill, so he’s better off walking around quietly, instead of pacing & whinnying like a madman.
I put Joker’s (RIP) old Back on Track Quik Wraps on Duncan when he comes in at night. I have a big inventory of BOT stuff. They have always been great to help, so I called them for advice on turnout leg boots for tendon issues. The arthritis in my hands is cranky on a hot day in July and is really not up to correctly wrapping quilts & standing wraps on legs when the temperature is in the high 20’s (F).
I ended up buying their Opal Exercise Boots. https://www.smartpakequine.com/pt/b...V7ClMCh2fRgP1EAQYAiABEgI-t_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
They are supposed to be here next Tuesday. I hope so because my hands just don’t work fast enough and still be accurate to put old fashioned wraps on. Plus Duncan still thinks that old splint bone fracture still bothers him, and maybe it does, but either way he keeps lifting that leg up and down adding to the time wrapping takes.
The very nice gal at BOT said these Opal wraps are pretty much dummy proof and that works for me
Lastly, Duncan is not lame - not one smidgen. I only know he did something because I had the misfortune to see him stumble running on the flat in the pasture, and he had a big heated bump on his inner leg that night.
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