Discouraging Day

The day started out ok, a good walk then a good day at the Berean office. It only turned hard once home.  Indy just doesn't seem big enough to be over due. I decided since Sheena needed to go to the vet to get her leg looked at and rewrapped I may as well take Indy too.  Indy was loaded up in the front of the stock trailer and Sheena in the back of the stock. It all turned awful when I arrived.  Sheena must have stomped or pawed and her the toe of front hoof ended up on a slat on the divider. Instead of going up and pulling it off, she put her weight on that hoof and it slid through the slats becoming stuck. Sheena panicked and threw herself backward but there was no way that hoof could slide back out and that slammed her onto the floor of the trailer where she started thrashing around banging her head and kicking out with her other legs making such a racket everyone came running.  Dr. Pallen was able to give her a shot to sedate her stopping her from hurting herself more. Below are pictures. Once she was sedated everyone was trying to figure out the best way to slide the hoof out.

In the picture below Dr. Pallen is holding her head while two men from the stables came with hack saws and they are trying to saw through the slates to free her leg. 

 They tried to pry the slat down first but it just wouldn't budge. Below they are almost through the slat. 

While this was going on, her eyes were covered, check out that bloody mouth. She banged her lips up pretty badly on the side of the trailer.

As soon as the slat was sawed through they were able to pull her hoof out.

At this point Sheena needed to be dragged away from the divider and her head checked out.

Dr. Pallen found that Sheena had banged above her eye socket so hard that she had broken off pieces of skull fragments that needed to be cleaned out before the laceration could be sewn up above her eye. 

Her leg was pretty torn up in many different places from being stuck in the slats and unfortunatly one of the wounds was pretty deep, like a puncture would. 

 Sheena was allowed to wake up and walked off the trailer herself. She stood well for hosing off her leg. Dr. Pallen used hemostats to close some of the pumping arteries.

Every cut on that leg was stitched up except the puncture wound. Her leg was then wrapped in a pressure bandage then covered with bright pink vet wrap. Next it was time to work on the reason Sheena was taken to the vet in the first place. The bandage was removed on her back leg where she had gotten it stuck in a fence on Friday.  That wound actually looks much better but it too was bleeding quite bad when the bandage was removed.  Most of the proud flesh is now gone and Dr. Pallen was able to push the flap up against the leg.  

 That leg got a pretty lime green bandage.  

 Now that both of her legs were wrapped, she was taken into the clinic to have her eye examined. 

Dr. Pallen found a small abrasion on her eyeball and that was treated with eye salve.  That wasn't the end of the bad news by the time everything had been done for Sheena, Indy was brought out and put in the stocks and I was given the bad news that Indy was no longer pregnant. She had lost the foal. This probably happened a couple months ago. I remember going out to Middle Grove, looking at Indy and thinking she was no longer looking pregnant but Indy is such a big mare that even today we could not tell. Sad to say she is just FAT!!! We have had a hard year with losing Marika's colt, then Oksana losing her pregnancy, then Wicktoria's colt dying and now Indy aborting. Today was really a discouraging day, plus all of this drama with Sheena could have been avoided if I would just have had the vet come here.  I was trying to save the $60.00 farm call.  Hind sight is always 20/20 but that $60.00 would have been a really good buy, now we have a trailer to repair and for sure the vet bill for Sheena is WAY more than $60.00.  UGH! Sheena is now in a stall and will need to be stalled to keep both leg bandages dry until she heals. 

At least one good thing happened

Brandee, the lady that bought Easter Lilly and Titan, Ribbon's last colt took Lilly in a parade and was good enough to send along a few pictures. Below are 2 she sent. This is such a good pair and Lilly looks wonderful! Lilly is in foal by Valiant. We can't wait to see what she produces in 2019.

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