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Mahan
Aug 6, 2007 19:04:22 GMT -5
Post by ljbrooks on Aug 6, 2007 19:04:22 GMT -5
Mahan is sitting around getting chunky and bored. I need to ride him more, but you know how it is with kids and such. I'm hoping to get some time on him in the next few weeks. He's doing well though. I went in with him and Pie today and just scratched their heads and talked for awhile. It was nice to just hang out with them...
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Mahan
Aug 21, 2007 18:52:38 GMT -5
Post by ljbrooks on Aug 21, 2007 18:52:38 GMT -5
So I may have another really pretty pasture ornament. I haven't ridden him lately and he has seemed fine at pasture. I tacked him up for a potential leasee today and he was very lame while being ridden. Had the vet out, did a nerve block and now we progress to x-rays to diagnose from there. At least it only took one nerve block to get here.
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Mahan
Aug 22, 2007 1:52:33 GMT -5
Post by wendyp on Aug 22, 2007 1:52:33 GMT -5
So, if it only took one block, then I'm guessing it was low - in the hoof? Pastern? Tonisha's Boone seems totally sound at a walk, and has an obvious limp at a jog - she did the same thing - block, xrays, and there is a shadow in there (low, in the hoof area) so maybe a bone chip or something. Next step is surgery to see it, touch it, diagnose it, remove it. The vet did put him on antibiotics for a long period of time to see if there was improvement - in the hopes that it was a low grade infection that could be solved easily - NOT!
Hope it's fixable - or you and Tonisha will each have a 'colorful' yard ornament!!!!
Keep us posted...........
WendyP/Bend, OR
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Mahan
Aug 22, 2007 9:12:16 GMT -5
Post by atticus on Aug 22, 2007 9:12:16 GMT -5
Jingles for Mr. Mahan, hoping he isn't a yard ornament!!
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Mahan
Aug 22, 2007 9:49:03 GMT -5
Post by ljbrooks on Aug 22, 2007 9:49:03 GMT -5
Yes. It's low in the hoof. He was remarkably sound with the nerves deadened, so...we shall see.
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Mahan
Aug 22, 2007 11:16:59 GMT -5
Post by agilitygal on Aug 22, 2007 11:16:59 GMT -5
Oh, ouch! Hope it's nothing serious. Love that mickey-mouse ears horse!
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Mahan
Aug 22, 2007 12:04:33 GMT -5
Post by sassiedogtk on Aug 22, 2007 12:04:33 GMT -5
Hope everything goes well!!
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Mahan
Jan 14, 2008 21:24:28 GMT -5
Post by ljbrooks on Jan 14, 2008 21:24:28 GMT -5
Mahan has severe Navicular disease. After multiple x-rays, we found out why he is so ouchy at the trot and canter. He still seems sound at the walk, if a bit short strided.
Vet recommends a bilateral neurectomy. I am not excited about having a horse who can't feel his front feet. It just doesn't seem safe. We are going the route of frequent trimmings to bring his toe back a bit and raise the heel. Seems to be helping some. Will give pain meds if it increases to that. I just don't want to nerve him. It seems like a dangerous path...
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Mahan
Jan 14, 2008 21:31:33 GMT -5
Post by NanciK on Jan 14, 2008 21:31:33 GMT -5
Sorry to hear this diagnosis. I might suggest that you connect with Katie Moore/watermarkfarm, I believe that she recently had a neurectomy done on her draft gelding "Half Pint".
You can PM her here, or send an email to get her perspective: watermarkfarm1@yahoo.com
Best of luck, please let us know how it goes, we care!
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Mahan
Jan 14, 2008 22:49:50 GMT -5
Post by mykingdomforahorse on Jan 14, 2008 22:49:50 GMT -5
Jingles for Mahan, I'll also keep him in my prayers.
It does sound scary, a horse not having feeling in his feet -- how do they still walk?
Please give him a hug for us. He's a real beauty.
Em
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Mahan
Jan 19, 2008 1:03:05 GMT -5
Post by kidznhorses on Jan 19, 2008 1:03:05 GMT -5
I went through this before with a very, very special horse 25 years ago, Lisa. We had a neurectomy at Eastern Washington University, but it failed. If you can find a super experienced barefoot trimmer to help you, that would be your best bet, IMO. I had to put my beautiful Buckskin boy down all those years ago, but I know there is hope now days with Jaime Jackson and Pete Ramey trimmers. Keep me posted!
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Mahan
Jan 24, 2008 12:10:06 GMT -5
Post by webmistress32 on Jan 24, 2008 12:10:06 GMT -5
PLEASE PLEASE please before you do anything else, find a competent barefoot trimmer (NOT just a regular farrier who will do a pasture trim NO!) and have him done for a few months. Betcha he will be good as new. Use this site to find a competent BAREFOOT trimmer near you: www.thehorseshoof.com/trimmers.html
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Mahan
Feb 1, 2008 2:09:37 GMT -5
Post by ljbrooks on Feb 1, 2008 2:09:37 GMT -5
Yes, I have a great farrier who has him on a six week schedule of the special trimming. He's actually been to a Pete Ramey clinic! He rasps him in between.
I have decided against the neurectomy. I know a nice lady who would like to take him over and keep up the regular trims and use him as a companion to her solo mare. Hopefully, with time, this will be completely resolved when we get all the bones of the hoof realigned. Looking at all the info available through Pete's website (or articles he's written elsewhere. Not sure where I saw it...) it's amazing how much can be done. At least to make them "mostly" better if not completely.
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Mahan
Feb 18, 2008 10:47:31 GMT -5
Post by ljbrooks on Feb 18, 2008 10:47:31 GMT -5
Mahan went to his new home yesterday! He has his own pen and a daily turnout in a LARGE pasture area. I did bute him for the trip as it was over 4 hours, but he seemed well and not stiff or sore at all after we got there. The place where she is boarding him for a month or so (trying to get her friend to take her mare home from her house) is owned by a barefoot trimmer who is, apparently, familiar with what needs to be done for a navicular horse. I didn't meet him, but she called twice while I was on the road and I had these pictures waiting for me when I got home, so I think she is, at the very least, very willing to do what is right for him. He seemed happy and at ease when I left him there. Here are some pics she emailed me when I got home. His new "mom", Amanda So long, good buddy! She wanted to saddle him and said he was perfect. He looks pretty happy to me for only being at his new home for a couple of hours. ;D
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