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Post by brigadier on Jul 8, 2013 15:06:55 GMT
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Post by spotti on Jul 8, 2013 15:57:39 GMT
That's really helpful. Bit icky with the dissected leg bits but once I got over that it was really good! Finally something that explains where to feel and what you're feeling for!!!
I'm quite obsessed with checking faiths pulses and tend to favour the 4th option (I think it was number 4...the pastern/fetlock option) due to faiths hairy legs making it rather difficult to feel any pulses higher up her legs.
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Post by brigadier on Jul 8, 2013 19:51:20 GMT
I find it differs on every horse and I liked this link because it explains quite clearly how finding one doesnt mean there is lami present, its a balance on what you find normally etc,but it does make it really clear although the skinned leg is gruesome!
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Post by scattymare on Jul 10, 2013 11:41:22 GMT
That is a really good site. Flossy recently had a lami scare - I was able to feel a bounding pulse in all four feet. Normally can't find even a faint one. Wierdly after a night in it was gone (she was kept in on soaked hay for a week as a precaution and seen by the vet a few days later when they were doing Eddies teeth anyway as she has had it before) I'll pass on to YO as I was trying to show her afterwards where you'd feel for it but very difficult to explain when theres no pulse to be found!
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Post by brigadier on Jul 10, 2013 18:25:50 GMT
Funnily enough I usually find a pulse on the inside of the lower fetlock which isnt covered by any of these, but I did think this the best explanation Ive come across- if a bit gruesome. I will take the pulse on the inside of the lower jaw but then you are stuffed if the horse is or has been eating. Also below the knee on the inside of the leg is good, as long as the horse stands.
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