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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Proud flesh looks like hamburger, not steak. It’s lumpy and does sometimes have that yellowy pussy stuff in it.
Huh, I didn’t know that. I knew hay that had a been rained on lost a lot of nutrition value, but that it was still OK.
We are having 30 mph winds that are suppose to last all day.
Becky
This doesn’t look anything like what you describe. It’s smooth, nothing comes out when pressed on, it’s just kind of yellowish looking, which I think I’ve seen cuts look like before, and when I leave them open for some air, it looks better.
Becky
According to that Safergras.org site, it really doesn’t lose all that much in the way of nutrition, and the protein level is uneffected, so I found that really good to know.
Too bad you don’t have a wind turbine on your house. You could be selling power back to the utility company right now! ;o) I would think that your area would be a good one for them to set up a wind farm. There’s one house around here that has a big turbine set up on top of a big pole next to their house. I don’t know how much power they’d generate around here, but it was interesting to look at anyways.
If it starts getting proud flesh, it’ll start bubbling out and growing out of control. You won’t miss it. Google it for images if you want to see, it’s gross.
Bob’s knee had some proud flesh for a while, but the granulex kept it in check pretty good. And Hair’s right, it did look kinda lumpy, like a wad of fresh hamburger meat.
That’s just not what I’m seeing, so it mustn’t be proud flesh. Not lumpy at all, just smooth looking and yellowish.
Becky
Nah, I think just some waiters.
Dry here but we are having 40 MPH wind gusts. I hate the sound of the wind howling.
It’s so miserably humid here that if it wasn’t blowing it would be horrible. My horse is saddled, I’m having a bite of lunch then I’m off. I may not make it long tho, the trees may block the wind, but then it’s going to get hot, or the wind may just make riding no fun. We’ll see:)
Becky
That is called granulation tissue. It is a sign that the wound is repairing itself. Because the lower legs of horses have poor blood supply (by design), wounds there tend to NOT know when to stop laying down granulation tissue, hence proud flesh. It is a good thing, to a point. Once it starts to grow above the level of the skin, the skin cannot grow over the wound anymore. So, once the granulation tissue starts to get out of hand, it has to be treated, either with a proud flesh control product or by trimming it off surgically. There are no nerves in granulation tissue so it can be excised with a small scalpel without anesthesia (no pain).
Bandaging helps keep the granulation tissue under control as it acts like a temporary skin. You should start to see pink skin growth around the edges of the wound. Once that pink growth appears, the granulation tissue must be kept under control for healing to complete.
Hope that helps! Having been through a long healing and rehab with Henkell for his leg wound, I learned all kinds of things about wounds in horses. I asked lots of questions of my vet.
We are having the same weather here in North Texas. It is very windy today, humid, and hot. The heat index is expected to hit 105 with the high temp in the mid-90s. Winds are currently 20 MPH out of the South.
I am not complaining about it though. These weather conditions help my property to dry out fast after the 10=12 inches in the past 2 weeks. I think my pasture qualified for an EPA protected wetland!! It is drying out fast now with the hot wind but still boggy in spots.
I am hoping it doesn’t rain again (in the forecast for tomorrow) as I need to get hay delivered. If it is too wet, they can’t get back to the barn to stack it. Right now, I am trying to get by on a few bales at a time that I am storing in my horse trailer, then carrying out what I need at each feeding. It is a lot more convenient when it is in the barn. Also, I am just about out of Senior and oats, and there is nothing I hate more than packing 50 lb sacks of feed 150’ feet to the barn on slick, sucking mud!
It hasn’t rained here in so long that I’ve forgotten what mud is! What little grass is left is all brown and crunchy.
Well WOO HOO! The farrier showed back up!
He seems to be passing all the tests.
Bay sure is jumpy around him though. The shoer left his rolly cart all the way over at the truck and Bay was still snorting and tense. Snorting at the tools, at the hoof stand... He was a real pain in the butt, jumping out of his hands a couple times.
Nothing that ~should~ frighten an old A-Rab horse. He was never hard for Mark to shoe, he was the horse I could drop the line and walk away from... But I guess Mark had been shoeing him so long they’d worn themselves a groove.
I didn’t take any pictures... I’ll probably get some later or tomorrow for an update to his shoeing thread... Right now we just have an hour or so before the vet’s coming and I want to get some lunch. :~)
Poor ol’ Bay was probably expecting him to set that horse-eating cart loose on him again. After all, he did it the last time, so obviously he’s not to be trusted (at least according to horse-logic).
So you didn’t get any pictures of the farrier. Darn! I am truly disappointed in your sneak photography abilities! ;o)
When you do take pics, do Cyn’s feet too. I wanna see how he does bare feet.
Will do on the pictures...
I really thought about pictures... I just don’t want the guy to think I’m weird, I’m trying very hard to get him to stick around ;~)
Well, as long as your horses aren’t just total pains in the butt to do and he doesn’t have to run all over the pasture to catch them then it shouldn’t be a problem to keep him. Hopefully Bay will settle down for him over the next few shoings and be a little easier to do. If not you might want to give him a little Quite Pony Powder beforehand. How did Cyn and Pony do for him?
So how’d the ride go?
It’s funny.... Cyn was very good for him, yet we talked the most about her attitude, more than Bay. Called her ‘marish’, with her sour face and tail swishing, but she did whatever he asked.
Pony’s always good for the farrier... she just jumps out of her skin when you pat her unexpectedly at the end :~)
"You can make me do what you want, but you can't make me like it, or YOU!" ;o)
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