Next morning we got an email that this stallion was extremely injured. He had his head caught in a feeder and tore his eye out. He was not fit to travel. Shipper was contacted and we said we still would like to have the little stallion...we would give him a good home. So we picked him up 5 weeks later.
 Feeder that destroyed Trooper's eye... |
He arrived here the 18th of March at 9pm. He had 4 gaping wounds that where full of puss and a bloody mess with puss running out where his eye once was. He was extremely tiny and refined. I took a look at him and the tears started to roll. What had this little guy gone through?? We brought him to the vet the next day. The vet cleaned his wounds and gave us all the best medicines for him. We washed his wounds with iodine solutions twice a day, applied a strong antibiotic salve and started the guy on tribrissen and Banamine, gave Probios and put a tiny flymask on him.
So PLEASE do NOT use or purchase these feeders. They are extremly dangerous!! We where Lucky that Trooper is still alive. His papered name is different, but his farm-name around here will always be TROOPER.
The first picture is the colt how he looked 2 days after he arrived....NO puss and the wounds starting to heal. I couldn't bring myself to post pictures of what he looked like when he arrived. The second picture shows our Little Trooper after the surgery. And by Saturday the 25th of March, he was starting to actually bounce around in his paddock!! What a FIGHTER!
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