Adventures with my favorite horses
In Part 2, Stampede was being switched from Baytril to SMZ’s and Excede based on biopsy’s of his right hind leg scabs showing staph. Vets were not particularly confident about this as all horses pretty much have staph on them,…
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Gator Stampede – April 28, 2001 to August 7, 2019 I don’t think anyone can dispute that Stampede above all else was always special. Sometimes that special wasn’t in the way I would prefer, but he was none the less….
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When we left off, I was waiting for culture results on some punch biopsies done on Stampede’s right hind leg. While the results weren’t super helpful, they did change our treatment direction. The only bacteria that showed up was staph,…
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Back on May 20th I came out in the morning to find Stampede starting a cellulitis flare up in his right hind. He usually has at least one a year, and we had one right around Christmas previously. So I…
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When I last posted about my saga with the chestnut boys Stampede was recovering from cellulitis and many random scrapes and swellings while P was having liquid farts of unknown cause. I had hoped things would calm down soon since…
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Stampede really knows how to celebrate the holidays! I happened to have the day after Christmas off which is the only reason I was in the barn in the middle of the day. I came out and threw some alfalfa…
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When we left off with my last special needs horse post, Stampede had heat in his leg from the area of his missing hair down into his hoof and was quite lame but my vet was missing due to a…
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I mentioned last post that I was failing on the try to keep Stampede sound goal so here’s a summary of all that’s been going on besides me going crazy! One Saturday last month I was flatting Stamp and he…
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Time really flies when you are busy! Time to recap what’s going on with Stampede since the end of November when I last updated about the boys. When we left off Stampede was battling on and off lameness in his…
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