Help for hock sores?
O wise folks,
Maybe you can help me? My Flynn is a typical thin-skinned chestnut, and she likes to sleep laying down. A lot. These two things don't go so well together -- we've been battling hock sores pretty much since day one. They're not real serious, but I seem to get them healed up for a week or two only to have them show up again just as the hair's starting to grow back in. She lives in a covered pipe pen with dirt footing, and gets two-four bales of shavings a week to soften things up, and she gets turned out for 6-8 hours every day.
Stuff I've tried:
- Boomer's Hock Socks: Actually worked great ... until she learned how to take them off. Now, not so much. Short of duct-taping them on, I'm not sure how to keep them on the pony. :/
- Keeping her indoors, in a stall with mats: Also cleared the sores up, but that's just a no. That was one TICKED OFF little pony, even after a week and a half. She does not like being inside. At all. Even with regular turnout. And the staff didn't really like her being inside either, because she spent the WHOLE TIME she was in kicking the stall door.
- What we're doing now: Keeping the owies clean and applying liberal amounts of Corona ointment and/or Furazone. Seems to be helping some, but still ... hock sores.
So, does anyone have a magic cure they'd be willing to pass along? I'll try anything that sounds safe at this point. Arrgh.
Maybe you can help me? My Flynn is a typical thin-skinned chestnut, and she likes to sleep laying down. A lot. These two things don't go so well together -- we've been battling hock sores pretty much since day one. They're not real serious, but I seem to get them healed up for a week or two only to have them show up again just as the hair's starting to grow back in. She lives in a covered pipe pen with dirt footing, and gets two-four bales of shavings a week to soften things up, and she gets turned out for 6-8 hours every day.
Stuff I've tried:
- Boomer's Hock Socks: Actually worked great ... until she learned how to take them off. Now, not so much. Short of duct-taping them on, I'm not sure how to keep them on the pony. :/
- Keeping her indoors, in a stall with mats: Also cleared the sores up, but that's just a no. That was one TICKED OFF little pony, even after a week and a half. She does not like being inside. At all. Even with regular turnout. And the staff didn't really like her being inside either, because she spent the WHOLE TIME she was in kicking the stall door.
- What we're doing now: Keeping the owies clean and applying liberal amounts of Corona ointment and/or Furazone. Seems to be helping some, but still ... hock sores.
So, does anyone have a magic cure they'd be willing to pass along? I'll try anything that sounds safe at this point. Arrgh.