The horse is new to our property, so we stuck her in the barn, but our stud horses broke out and chased her through the fence and she got a huge cash on her wound that scabbed over and began to swell like a baseball, then we turned her loose in the field for a day and the swelling basically ‘exploded’ and now she has a hole in her neck about an inch deem and 5-7 inches wide, we have been taking great are of her before and even since it happened by wrapping the wound and putting this stuff designed to increase the healing process.
Just today we removed the wrap after it was on overnight and found maggots inside the wound. We have since flushed the wound with water and got the maggots out, but there were a few still left that were sorta ‘attached’ to the skin. My mom says magots will eat all the dead skin and not to worry about them, but won’t they eat live skin too?
I forgot to add that I did take her to the vet when the cut first happened, she gave us some stuff to put on the wound daily, then the wound started to swell up so she told us to make a small cut on it to release the puss, and it worked, but then we turned her loose and she rolled around and it popped, we waited about 9 hours to take her to the vet and the vet said we waited to long and she would not work on the horse. …
DON’T FLAME…
RENALDO
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For God’s sake take her to the doctor or call a vet to come and check on your horse
I don’t think maggots will eat anything but dead tissue, but I think you’d better call a vet.
Take your horse to the vet! That’s a serious injury and whether or not there were maggots in it, you should have taken the horse to the vet right away in the first place.
the maggots wont eat the live flesh only the dead. They will also help keep in uninfected. But you do need to get a vet out there. She definately needs a tetnus shot, even if she has already been vaccinated for it this year, she needs a booster.
VET ASAP!!!! IF DONT THE HORSE COULD DIE THAT IS A SERIOUS WOUND THAT NEEDS UIMMEDIATE TREATMENT!!!!!!
GET THEM OUTTA THERE!! they will eat the dead flesh yes, but they are diseased and will cause an infection. flush the wound out with peroxide and pick out the maggots. with a wound like that you should change it 3 times a day or at least in the morning and in the evening. spray fly spray OVER the wrap once it is on the mare, and around the wound. don’t get any inside the wound. take her to a vet or at least go up there and ask for good wraps that won’t stick to the wound. if it swelled up then exploded it meant she got proud flesh and she probably still needs to go to the vet to have some of the dead tissue and flesh taken off. you can get in serious trouble about this if someone decides to call cruelty on you. you may be doing what you can at home but sometimes it just isn’t enough. please take her to the vet, it would be the kind thing to do. if you don’t she could get very sick from an infection from the maggots. and if there were maggots then there is definatly flesh that needs to be removed and cleaned because they crapped all inside her neck and spit up and all sorts of nasty things
My gosh, will you call the Vet! If your horse gets septic (blood poisoning) it will die.
my friends’ horse had that happen to is ankle, and the horse, dan, was laying……which of course, isnt good. they were going to have to put it to sleep, but they got a vet out there in the nick of time and got it cleaned up.
no…. maggots are great medicanal helpers. they don’t eat live skin so don’t worry. i would suggest getting your horse friend to the vet before your maggots grow any bigger, but for the time being just be thank-ful that they are cleaning out your horse.
Call the vet and when he comes ask him how to properly take care of these problems sooner. Maggots thrive in DIRTY places and will give the horse an infection. That’s SICK. Don’t wait it out.
I agree with eveness here, maggots are great for cleaning wounds, but they should be used under medical supervision, specially bred ;sterile maggots are used in hospitals.
I think that you have been ambitious in trying to deal with a wound this size on your own, and you really need to get the vet involved now. Please either take the horse along,or call the vet, before things get worse.
that’s because you let it scab, which in turn is like putting a lid on it, that just allowed the infection to become an abscess. That what caused the shoulder to seam like it exploded. It should have been drained. And don’t wrap it, the best thing to do for a wound like this is keep it clean, the best way is hydro therapy. Clean with a surgical scrub get all that old scab off, now let the water run over it to soften the skin around. Wipe with beta-dine iodine to help clean it. Now let it dry, if you still have bleeding to wound a little wounder dust or common cooking flour works just as well. I find flies don’t like the flour! We did this routine 3 times a day on a rescue Appy that had a 6in abscess on her right shoulder. It healed up with in a couple of weeks. The maggots won’t hurt her, but you do need to clean them all out. If this is all new to you, then you should call a vet. I’ve been taking care of horses all my life.
the maggots are a sign that the infection is serious.the vet you have doesn’t sound like a good one or they would be more concern about your animal. get a new vet and lots of antibotics
