Beckie Mabbutt

I went to shoe Cleo today for Donna Pegler and he had just received an injury to his coronary band. It look like he had been trodden on by another horse as it was on the outside of his foot. His leg was slightly filled so just to be safe Donna called the vet out. The vet prescribed a course of Antibiotics and Bute, and Donna was told to keep it as dry as possible and clean it with hibbiscrub twice a day. If a flap  occurs on the wound the vet will have to be called again. This sort of injury causes quite a problem because the horn tubules grow down from the coronary band so Cleo is likely to have a permanent defect to this part of his foot from now on.

This is what it looked like today. I will take photo's of it every 5 weeks to track how it develops.