Stifle OCD in baby :(

[monicabee]

Now the surgery is done the real fun begins…

I laughed as you listed your purchases. I ended up becoming an in-stall trick trainer during my horse’s stall rest five years ago. He learned to play a set of wind-chimes made with bamboo and baling twine (yes, I had some spare time) and to hand me a traffic cone. He still volunteers this trick with buckets and rubber feed tubs, even if the only reward is a laugh, and hats and whips when prompted.

I don’t know if I would ever have thought to teach him tricks otherwise, but since then I teach a few simple ones to every horse I work with. It come in handy for entertaining visitors, and you get a good feel for how each horse learns best – and they do like the interaction, especially when they are on stall rest.

Hoping for an easy recovery/rehab and a positive outcome for Ruffi.

[Kyzteke]

@monicabee;6146844

Now the surgery is done the real fun begins…

I laughed as you listed your purchases. I ended up becoming an in-stall trick trainer during my horse’s stall rest five years ago. He learned to play a set of wind-chimes made with bamboo and baling twine (yes, I had some spare time) and to hand me a traffic cone. He still volunteers this trick with buckets and rubber feed tubs, even if the only reward is a laugh, and hats and whips when prompted.

I don’t know if I would ever have thought to teach him tricks otherwise, but since then I teach a few simple ones to every horse I work with. It come in handy for entertaining visitors, and you get a good feel for how each horse learns best – and they do like the interaction, especially when they are on stall rest.

Hoping for an easy recovery/rehab and a positive outcome for Ruffi.

What a great idea!!!

[Furst_Edition_Farm]

Just checking in…

I was just wondering if you had any update you could share with us about Ruffi post surgery? I was just thinking that she should be over many of her restrictions, and hopefully showing more comfort than before surgery?

Please let us know if you have the time - I’ve been thinking about her!

[Infinite]

[QUOTE=Oakstable;6090071]
I didn’t think it was possible to radiograph stifles “in the field.” I’ve been told you need to take a horse to an equine hospital to get decent views.

Not so?[/QUOTE]

Not so with my vet, we do it all the time.

[Infinite]

[QUOTE=Iron Horse Farm;6118870]
Fibber - Im not trying to slam you, but I don’t see the “great lenghts”. A one sided OCD sx is about $1400-$1700 here locally with a huge chance of success. They are done every day.

Again, not minimizing how much Jenny cares for her filly, just that I would put that much effort and $$ into any of mine and kinda feel like it comes with the territory when you breed. If it’s fixable we try to do it.

Am I the one who is off base? I don’t know, but I certainly figure, from the time that I pay that stud fee, that if it takes another $1500 to save my baby, then I’m getting out the checkbook.[/QUOTE]

I realize this is late, but I just have to say you do realize that this is considered great lengths to many people, right? Particularly in this day and economy. Sure they are done everyday, but that does not minimize the commitment, effort and expense of doing it. Nor does it minimize the lengths that the OP is going to to save her filly.

[sid]

Didn’t read all the posts but the first page of this thread. Ise@ssl is right on.

1. Many incidences of OCD are indeed bilateral. Typically you’ll see the lameness in one limb and it can “cover up” maybe a lower grade lameness in the other. But often it’s there once xrayed.

2. Gettin good radiographs in the field for stifles are not truly relaible.

3. With a horse this age and a very experienced sugeon, super aftercare, it is indeed not the end of the world.

You are lucky it showed up so young with the horse still growing…chances of recovery to normal use is much increased as they are still growing.

Won’t go into my personal details with the ONLY horse this showed up in at age 7, but all I can say is that she recovered fully and is now 20 years old had a rigorous career in dressage u/s without any special treatment afterwords. She’s still sound.

The best $$ I ever spent…hers was genetic.

I had a boarder here years ago with lovely Hanoverian weanling by a well know sire of that time. Go out one day and this little girl’s hock was the size of a football. But she was not lame. Rads showed a huge OCD lesion…but on the outside of the joint. For cosmetic and sales purposes the owner did decide on surgery as well.

OCD is not always the kiss of death.

BTW, administering MSM from the time they are eating grain is a very good deterrent…plus, of course a how carb diet.

Hope all turns out well…