Good stuff;
You can keep clean with a spray bottle of dilute chlorhexidine and rinsing with a spray bottle of water.
Pat dry with soft non stick pads. (a couple of my dogs were ripped open by coyotes) Took a few weeks but they fully recovered. Also use Equaide when the horses rip themselves open. Worked brilliantly when one drove a brush stalk up through his foot and out through his heel bulb.
I am another person who can not see the picture. I have tried on two different devices and it says nope.
Depends what Windows version you have. On windows 11 you can download it and open with the Pictures app.
If you’re trying in Safari, it worked for me in chrome on an iPhone.
Ooof… No other words than I’m sorry this happened and I hope for a speedy recovery. There were two horses at my last barn that had similar gash wounds from something in the pasture, probably a t post. They were both sutured, but healed pretty quickly and without any ongoing issues.
Glad she is taking recovery help well 
I tried a different way of attaching that picture, more pictures will come as she progresses!
Wow that’s ugly. I did know a horse that had something of similar size on the top of his butt. Happened in the pasture. We could only surmise either a cougar jumped him or he tangled with a momma bear, there seemed to be claw marks. He was a young stallion at the time and the farm was at the edge of the burbs backing onto mountain wilderness with a lot of wildlife coming through. It probably took close to a year to fully heal, but like this was unable to stitch or wrap. Left significant scarring, didn’t seem to bother him. He is now a gelding, was sold to someine who really likes him.
Another vote for Underwood. I have used this product with good results a couple of times on big ugly open wounds that were sutured and then busted through the stitches.
Edited to add: I just saw the photo and it’s worse than what I’ve had to deal with, but Underwood Medicine is what I would use in your situation.
Thank you, my image software is fighting me and I’m not very savvy to begin with lol.
I can’t imagine how hard that was to deal with, since it wouldn’t drain nearly as well on the top of the butt! If anything, she will have a good story to tell once it heals. And fortunately for the young, they tend to heal better…I keep telling myself that lol.
I didn’t look at picture; didn’t want to. A mare I had ended up with an 8-10" gash on her shoulder after an accident. Vet came out and sutured it, but ran forceps under the skin & separated it from the silver skin, so all 20 or so stitches were useless. After a week, the clean 10" gash was an ugly 3"X12" mess. We kept it clean as possible, used plenty of SWAT and a silver nitrate spray. Remarkable, the scar was almost undetectable. It didn’t take that long to heal - a couple months, which given how big & ugly it was.
Not really.
The days while those stitches held that skin over the wound the skin worked as a wound dressing and it allowed things to start to heal underneath with out the disruption of being an open wound.
Yes, it likely got ugly for a bit once things started to die off, but ugly would have happened anyway.
Oh wow, thats quite the wound!! I have used Banixx as a spray for some nasty wounds (not quite like that one though) with some great results. I even used it on my self and it helped speed up healing (in my opinion). It doesn’t sting and is supposed to help heal wounds from the inside out. You just flush the wound with water (which you are doing) and spray this on afterwards. Just a thought.
I have tried but can’t seem to open any of the pictures ): Without being able to see I will just reiterate what’s been said. Wounds heal from the inside out. The valley must heal before the mountain top does. So keep clean. Keep insects out. Keep the horse from making the wound worse. A tall order for sure.
For those that can’t see it, the picture is now added on the first post.
That is Dettol by another name, which is sold everywhere except the USA, and is a very old brand.
OP that made my stomach flip! Glad to hear the little girl is being cooperative - a crash course in handling…
UNRELATED - am suddenly seeing ads mixed in with posts! I guess its revenue, but sure is annoying.
Good point, thank you. She is on tifton hay as free choice as I can manage and as much of a grain made with alfalfa, wheat midds, and rice bran as she can eat - right now she’s not much interested in her grain so I’d estimate she’s only eating 2-3lbs of it per day but her appetite is improving. She mows right through her hay though.
Hence the baking soda !
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