Merry Christmas to the Malone’s and thank you for everything that you do. I’m not a horse person but have many friends that do so what I’m gonna say might be somewhat ignorant, but is there not way to be able to nurture a horse back after a broken leg?
Merry Christmas to the Malone’s and thank you for everything that you do. I’m not a horse person but have many friends that do so what I’m gonna say might be somewhat ignorant, but is there not way to be able to nurture a horse back after a broken leg?
I was wondering the same. All mammals seem to recover from broken bones with proper care, though it can be prohibitively expensive.
Finding ways to save our precious equine friends from euthanasia after breaks and other mishaps — which appear so common with horses — would be a wonderful area of research.
Long time ago I wondered the same, took a minute to scan Dr Google and it is possible but there are a lot of factors involved in its success - most important 🤷♀️ is if it’s a clean break, intact skin (infection) and the horse’s nature. A messy/compound fracture is probably not possible.
I got to wondering about this recently myself - came across a scene in my garden a few weeks ago: was digging up potatoes, the last variety out of 9 or 10 and I came across what I thought was a dead rodent - the tail end. Poking around it turned out to be about 10-12" of the lower portion of a deer’s leg, including the hoof, hoof side down. Since I haven’t been actively trapping invasive rodents (gophers/ground squirrels) there are areas riddled with tunnels. The guys in my small group think I’m crazy but I’ve been wondering; could a deer have been spooked by a neighbor (dog 🤷♀️), run helter skelter thru the garden, stepped into/through one of these tunnels and cleanly snapped off its foreleg? The guys say it was buried by a dog (orientation is wrong) or dropped by a hawk/eagle.
My concern is that come spring/summer and I can begin dealing with the weed forest that use to be my garden I’ll find a deer carcass in there.
I would guess, no. No chance deer broke it off and. . . left it in the hole. Likely is that a dog buried it after scavenging a gut / carcass pile from a local hunter's kill.
Merry Christmas to the Malone’s and thank you for everything that you do. I’m not a horse person but have many friends that do so what I’m gonna say might be somewhat ignorant, but is there not way to be able to nurture a horse back after a broken leg?
I was wondering the same. All mammals seem to recover from broken bones with proper care, though it can be prohibitively expensive.
Finding ways to save our precious equine friends from euthanasia after breaks and other mishaps — which appear so common with horses — would be a wonderful area of research.
Long time ago I wondered the same, took a minute to scan Dr Google and it is possible but there are a lot of factors involved in its success - most important 🤷♀️ is if it’s a clean break, intact skin (infection) and the horse’s nature. A messy/compound fracture is probably not possible.
I got to wondering about this recently myself - came across a scene in my garden a few weeks ago: was digging up potatoes, the last variety out of 9 or 10 and I came across what I thought was a dead rodent - the tail end. Poking around it turned out to be about 10-12" of the lower portion of a deer’s leg, including the hoof, hoof side down. Since I haven’t been actively trapping invasive rodents (gophers/ground squirrels) there are areas riddled with tunnels. The guys in my small group think I’m crazy but I’ve been wondering; could a deer have been spooked by a neighbor (dog 🤷♀️), run helter skelter thru the garden, stepped into/through one of these tunnels and cleanly snapped off its foreleg? The guys say it was buried by a dog (orientation is wrong) or dropped by a hawk/eagle.
My concern is that come spring/summer and I can begin dealing with the weed forest that use to be my garden I’ll find a deer carcass in there.
All I know is that it’s weird
I would guess, no. No chance deer broke it off and. . . left it in the hole. Likely is that a dog buried it after scavenging a gut / carcass pile from a local hunter's kill.
No.