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Post by fimacg on Jun 30, 2010 18:54:47 GMT
Dexter has had a bit of a sore eye for the last week, very gunky in the mornings but OK when out wearing a fly fringe. However been away for 2 days with work and today it is like he has been crying, and he doen't really want to open it at all, think it might be time to call the vet.
One of his hoofs has also split right up - he is still sound and the farrier coming on Friday (he couldn't come last week cos he was working at the highland show for 4 days and with work I haven't been about)
But right now I feel like a rubbish owner has just looks dreadful at the moment (aside from piling on the pounds)
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Post by solomon on Jun 30, 2010 18:58:30 GMT
My vet said dilute witch hazel for cleaning eyes followed by brolene eye drops. Did the trick when Pete got conjunctivitis. It's the retched flies. His hooves- does he have biotin? I swear by it Pete's feet were rubbish when I got him, they are pretty good now.
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Post by fimacg on Jun 30, 2010 19:18:33 GMT
Thanks Sol - His foot has split cos he is overdue a trim, and he hadn't been on the road for a couple of weeks as I had kept them up by the house for two weeks as we sprayed their summer field, so 1st time down the road his foot split... I could kick myself
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Post by solomon on Jun 30, 2010 20:02:16 GMT
So annoying isn't it. It is mad here, all winter their feet are too wet. Now they start to become too dry!
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Post by baymare on Jul 1, 2010 10:20:45 GMT
we had a pony with terrible watery eyes.took him up the vets and said their was nothing wrong just to put on a fly mask.he has been fine ever since.could be the flys.equibrian fly mask was brill.bay.
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Post by scattymare on Jul 1, 2010 12:06:09 GMT
I don't normally suffer hayfever but recently I have been waking up in the night with a dreadfull runny nose and eyes full of gunk and puffy. I think the heat and flies for horses is just getting to them. Sancy has one runny eye.
The dryness doesn't do anything for the feet either. Sancys are looking like they have been masacred! Thankfully farrier coming Sunday.
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Post by jack on Jul 1, 2010 14:05:41 GMT
now im so suprised no one has thought of this cold tea this time of year if i dont put jacks mask on his eyes are always yuck bath his eyes in cold tea 2x day and within 24hrs they are looking much better i have found this to always work
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Post by joandlad on Jul 2, 2010 9:11:03 GMT
Thought I'd mention that you can now buy chloramphenicol eye ointment over the chemist counter. Just don't say it's for a horse as the pharmacist will refuse to sell it to you.  It's an antibiotic for bacterial eye infections. You need to be 100% sure that it's infection and not corneal damage though. Unless you happen to have some eye stain handy so you can check it's probably advisable to get the vet out. |
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Post by solomon on Jul 2, 2010 9:42:45 GMT
I forgot about cold tea, used it on my guinea pig a lot! He had crusty eyes. I told the vet and he said he had never heard of it!! Works though.
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Post by fimacg on Jul 2, 2010 9:57:30 GMT
I'm going to try the cold tea today and over the weekend if no better on Monday then the vet is coming out. Dexter had his first cold tea eye bath this morning, - do you try to get some onto the eye itself?
I just wiped around the eye with it obviously vey wet... loads of gunk and black dirt seemed to come away
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Post by solomon on Jul 2, 2010 10:09:05 GMT
Soak a cotton wool ball in the tea and wipe from the top inside to outside of his eye. Some going in his eye is good. One wipe per bit of cotton wool as it will be more hygienic. Twice or three times a day if he will let you. Good luck.
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Post by florence on Jul 2, 2010 19:38:43 GMT
If he doesn't want to open the eye, I would get the vet to have a look. Don't want to be a Jonah, but friend of mine was treating her horse with brolene and various eye washes. When she had the vet out for something entirely different, he noticed the eye and it turned out to be a serious eye condition (can't remember what it was). Her horse lost the sight in that eye and what made her feel even worse is that its a very painful condition.
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Post by fimacg on Jul 4, 2010 16:50:19 GMT
Dexter's eye on a little better so will phone the vets on tomorrow and get them out to take a look
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Post by brigadier on Jul 5, 2010 7:04:04 GMT
Flys are a nuisance as ever, usually problems are because of this but they also may damage them trying to rub the flys off, if no better twenty four hours after washing and using a mask I would always get a vet out. In summer always wet hoove then oil- in winter the other way round, helps keep the moisture balance correct.
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Post by fimacg on Jul 5, 2010 9:01:30 GMT
Dexter's eye seems a lot better this morning, open and only a little tear stained rather than literally crying...
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Post by ceej on Jul 5, 2010 15:44:35 GMT
all our ponies at the yard have had bad eyes (its flies really i think) but vet gave one owner stuff for conjunctivitis and she said (she's a nurse) that its the same stuff you get for humans at pharmacy - I used it on harry and eyes fine after couple days....
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Post by ceej on Jul 5, 2010 15:45:17 GMT
Mind you, if only in one eye mght be an infected scratch so might be worth getting vet?
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Post by rainbow on Jul 6, 2010 9:28:44 GMT
roise has runny eyes atm which is cause of the flies i believe. but she refuses to have a fly mask on and so i got her a fly fringe and she has now customised that so they dont go over her eyes! cant win with her so give up lol
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It's an antibiotic for bacterial eye infections. You need to be 100% sure that it's infection and not corneal damage though. Unless you happen to have some eye stain handy so you can check it's probably advisable to get the vet out. 
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