Bone spavin

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Hi, a friend of mines horse has been diagnosed today with possible spavin in
hind legs. They have not had a horse with this condition before and were
wondering what the prognosis is. The horse is a 20 y.o Arab gelding (raced
when younger). Vet has placed him on bute (2 sachets for first few days,
then one there after for next couple of weeks to detect any improvement).
His owner is not currently riding him due to lameness and he is living out
full time as when in his legs become filled and he is incredibly stiff.

Any advice/suggestions would be gratefully recieved as this is a fantastic
and very well loved horse.

Thanks

[Nikki Overton]

Hi Joe,

My older chap (15) has a bone spavin in his hock, he was diagnosed with
it three years ago. He was intermittantly unsound with it in the first
year, but was not unrideable and my vet at the time, said that it would
only be an issue until the bone fuses and then he will go sound again.

Which he now has. I had to work him when he was lame as this encouraged
the bones in the hock to fuse quicker. He is now sound although he is
stiff in the mornings on it. He wouldn't eat the bute unfortunately :(

I have also put him on glucosamine and condroitin supplement too and
this also seems to help with the stiffness.

Spavins are tricky, some horses are never fully sound again, but my
horse was lucky and he can now still do everything he could before just
a bit slower :D.

I hope that this horse makes a recovery and his owners have my
sympathies as it can be quite distressing when they are lame.

Nik & The Boys xxx

[Nikki Overton]

Hi Again,

Here is a link to some more information about the condition.

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/90771.htm&word=bone%2cspavin

HTH,

Nik & The Boys xxx

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Thank you

Fingers crossed he will be ok.

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