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I've been amazed how well horses do heal without scarring.

I've seen 2 incidents where I would have thought there was going to be a big scar.

A friend of mine had a pony that just about decapitated herself on a piece of tin. You could see in that cut clear to what ever it is that is in their necks. Stick your whole hand in it and down inside. It was really gross, and couldn't be stitched because of the location. She doctored it every day, cleaned it out and used Cut Heal. It healed fast, and left no decernible scar.

Dot got run thru a fence one time when she was about 2. She got a cut where her front leg conneted to her body. It was big and unlike the cut on that pony, her cut was jagged, flaps of hide hanging. It took longer to heal, couldn't be stitched either. It was gross too. It swelled real bad. As it started to heal, with every step she took the yellowish gunk bubbled out. YOu could hear it. I took her to the vet because I thought it was infected and he said that that drainage was good, it was the fluid from the swelling coming out. You can see no scar now on her either. We doctored that with Cut Heal. That's about the only thing I use on cuts. It's kind of messy stuff, but I think it really works.

Becky

They do heal well, and hair covers a multitude of small scars.

Bay's knees looked so bad the incident when he fell on them that I worried... and I think I worried because of the dang Black Beauty books. Didn't the red mare that was his friend have really scarred knees? I think that image stuck with me and I wondered if the hair would come back on his knees and it did.

I think the worst scarring on horses happens from barbed wire... lots of horses have the tell-tale holes in hide that barbed wire takes... I think because it just takes chunks out. Bay has one in his neck. I am sure it happened way back in his youth.