Protecting Knees in the stable

Siogfinsceal

My mare is recovering from a severe infection in her knee caused by a puncture wound. Its not the first time she has had such an injury and it is strange as she is kept in a stable with a concrete floor, shavings, a rubber tyre and bucket and 2 chains. She is however extremely accident prone so this is no sirprise.

While she had stitches in she was wearing stable bandages. Once they came out I bought these for her
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they did teh trick with regard to reducing the swelling in her knee dramatically in 3 days. However as the mare tried to remove them herself as usual, she bunched the velcro straps under her knee and combined with sweat has now given herself a nasty rub (I could have killed her!) so now I am back to stable bandaging again until thst heals up and I cant put those boots back on.

After a huge amount of vet bills I need to protect her knees in stable - can anyone recommend anything to help? Stable bandaging does cover them allright but as shes on livery I hate the yard manager having to take them on and off for me everyday. I have seen those stable chaps on Uk websites but it seems as though they all stop below the knee - unless i bought a full size pair for her? has anyone used them? any help appreciated before she injures herself again!

Coonagh Cowboy

I've never used those chaps you mention,but we had that same problem at my yard.Are stalls are also concrete overlayed with rubber matting.We also had some matting left over which we cut and placed all along the lower inside walls of the stall the accident-prone horses were in.It fixed the problem of them getting cuts and punctures,but I also know that the matting can be rather expensive.But sometimes you can find used matting in the buy and sell,if you could go that route to pad the stall.And we also make a point to inspect the entire stall for bits that stick out that could damage the horse.It's terrible when a horse injures themselves and it always seems as soon as their over one thing,up comes another.Best of luck to you and the horse.

togster

Siogfinsceal wrote: »

My mare is recovering from a severe infection in her knee caused by a puncture wound. Its not the first time she has had such an injury and it is strange as she is kept in a stable with a concrete floor, shavings, a rubber tyre and bucket and 2 chains. She is however extremely accident prone so this is no sirprise.

While she had stitches in she was wearing stable bandages. Once they came out I bought these for her
htp://www.derbyhouse.co.uk/prodshow.asp?id=1846&a=srch#
they did teh trick with regard to reducing the swelling in her knee dramatically in 3 days. However as the mare tried to remove them herself as usual, she bunched the velcro straps under her knee and combined with sweat has now given herself a nasty rub (I could have killed her!) so now I am back to stable bandaging again until thst heals up and I cant put those boots back on.

After a huge amount of vet bills I need to protect her knees in stable - can anyone recommend anything to help? Stable bandaging does cover them allright but as shes on livery I hate the yard manager having to take them on and off for me everyday. I have seen those stable chaps on Uk websites but it seems as though they all stop below the knee - unless i bought a full size pair for her? has anyone used them? any help appreciated before she injures herself again!

Do you want to stop her getting rubbed in that are? Or do you want to keep the area clean while it heals. I don't really know of anything but we used to use the knee boots (soft) to stop a horse who banged his knees of the door at feeding time. This might work if all you want to do is protect her knee, but if you want to keep dirt out i don't know!

Siogfinsceal

Hi, Im using honey to heal the rub at the moment. but, Once thats done I just want to protect her knees in the stable as I have no idea how they got hurt originally and dont want her to do it again.
Coonagh Cowboy thats a good idea as when I looked I think only place she might have hurt it is on the wooden door frame (she sometimes stands right at it to touch noses with her stable buddy). so I have put her rubber bucket in front of the frame so she cant get her knee near it. The yard owner is going to see if we can put any padding at the door frame too.....a padded cell!!:p:p

We have used travelling boots for that, however you are probably best to give the stable a thorough going over incase there is something that it is causing it that you have missed.

Other option is to put rubber matting around the bottom half of the stable walls. Its not too expensive and easy to clean.