55. Hoof trimming
Robert said that it was to carry out further treatment of alloy slugs, but in fact, to put it bluntly, it was to carry out the treatment of laminitis in advance on the basis of the original treatment of horse influenza, and no longer take the original prevention of laminitis aggravation as the goal of the next stage of medical treatment.
Laminitis is a diffuse and aseptic inflammation of the dermis of the horseshoe, especially the dermal lobular layer and vascular layer in the anterior half of the hoof wall, resulting in severe pain in hoof disease.
Generally speaking, laminitis occurs on both forelimbs or limbs of horses at the same time, and rarely occurs in two hind limbs alone, resulting in horses with limbs gathered under the abdomen, waist bend and head low, similar to five accumulations, so veterinarians call this disease five pain.
It occurs from time to time during horse riding and horse racing, which is a common hoof disease in sports horses, which often causes horses to move on their limbs.
There are many reasons why horses get laminitis, such as the alloy slug that Fu Jun and others originally thought was injured in the left hind hoof and used one hoof to bear weight for a long time, resulting in laminitis.
However, it was later ruled out by them, because if the metal slug had laminitis for this reason, then it should have been laminitis on the right hind leg that was not injured, and finally let them confirm that it was laminitis caused by the continuing factor.
This kind of secondary laminitis is often secondary to equine influenza, equine lobar pneumonia and other diseases, but because it is difficult to determine the sequence of symptoms of successive hyperthermia inflammation, it is difficult to determine whether it is a secondary disease, which is also the reason why Fu Jun and they failed to determine the secondary laminitis at the beginning when they treated the alloy warhead.
In fact, the treatment of laminitis is very simple, in addition to controlling the inflammation and reducing inflammatory exudation, the rest is to reasonably cut the hooves and load the hooves, and repair the injured hooves of the horse in time.
The so-called hoof shaving is an important measure to maintain the normal shape of the hoof and prevent the appearance of deformed hooves.
The cuticle of the horseshoe is located like a human fingernail
It grows about 8 to 10 mm per month, and the younger horses and dogs will grow faster.
After the growth of the horse's hooves is too long, if the hooves are not repaired in time, it will inevitably cause the horse's hoof shape to be abnormal, resulting in poor limb posture, causing hoof disease or horse trekking.
If in the industry of ordinary human surgeons, whether the operation can be successful can be judged by the quality of a doctor's medical skills, then in the field of sports horse medicine, whether the horse can be shaved well can be skilled, then the approximate strength of the sports horse doctor can be judged.
Just like those pedicure technicians in leisure clubs, pedicure technicians who give guests pedicures, after a skilled pedicure technician finishes the guests' pedicures, they are refreshed and will not itch at all, although the feet are still bloody, but they can't stop the guests' comfortable feeling at all.
However, the poor pedicure technician, after repairing the guest, did not repair the itch in the guest's foot at all, after the repair of the guest is still itchy, and the blood has flowed a lot, if you are unlucky, if you encounter a poor technician under the knife, it will be fatal.
In the same way, if a good sports horse doctor can't fix the horse's hooves in place, then the horse's hooves will naturally not be good, and don't expect them to participate in the competition normally.
This is why in the horse racing industry at home and abroad, the salary of hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars, even if it is simply invited to do surgery, the price is particularly high, because to protect the hooves of an excellent thoroughbred horse, that horse achieves good racing results, it may give the owner of that horse, millions of dollars.
Of course, having said that, shaving hooves is important, and hoofing is even more important.
And the so-called hoofing, in fact, to put it bluntly, is to nail a horseshoe, after nailing, the farrier is like a shoe, protecting the horse's hooves.
For horseshoe, the right farrier is an important piece of equipment to prevent injury, so the care of the horse's hooves must include regular replacement of the hoof on the basis of shaving and trimming the hoof.
Of course, all they can do is to cut their hooves, and as for the matter of loading hooves, it is the business of the nail master.
"The three of you will hold down the metal slug later, be careful not to push too hard, just calm it down, don't let it move, if it moves and my hoof cutter cuts too much of its hooves." Robert instructed the three of them that this time he would cut the hooves of the metal slug, and he would do it himself.
Speaking of which, in the medical team of the Wenhuai Lake Equestrian Club, only Robert is the most qualified to shave the hooves of the Metal Slug.
This is not to say that the ability of the three is not good, after all, when Robert did not come to Wenhuai Lake before, the head horse alloy slug of Wenhuai Lake was Ma Kun to cut the hooves, in terms of Ma Kun's hoof cutting experience, maybe compared to Robert, the gap is too big, but in the entire sports horse medicine industry, Ma Kun is definitely above the passing line, which can be said to be very rare in the domestic sports horse medicine industry.
After all, there are many clubs in China that have sports horse doctors, who may be ordinary veterinarians, and then read some professional books before being driven ducks on the shelves by their clubs, they may not even be able to analyze the symptoms quickly, let alone cut the hooves of sports horses.
After all, these ordinary veterinarian-born sports equine doctors may have a lot of experience in cutting the hooves of other animals, but very little in China, after all, they see fewer horses outside on weekdays except in the club, how can there be enough horses for him to practice shaving hooves?
In addition, a sports horse, especially a thoroughbred, is expensive, and they also have to bear the risk of compensation for the club's horse hooves, and they are afraid that the expensive sports horses will be cut and damaged, and then the club will claim compensation, so they will naturally not study and study the hoof.
In line with the strategy of having no mistakes, they generally do not cut properly, and never cause serious damage to the horses because they cut too deeply, after all, some horses can really make such a duck on the shelf, and the veterinarian who is purely messing around will lose his life.
With such an entanglement of interests, naturally don't expect many first-class equine veterinarians to have during the Chinese New Year.
It can be seen that Ma Kun can go from a horse farm handyman who graduated from a veterinary major to a first-class horse doctor from the beginning of the establishment of the Wenhuai Lake Equestrian Club.
Fu Jun heard that Ma Kun treated horses in the past, but he really killed horses, and those horses were not ordinary horses, and the price was not low, but Ma Kun killed them, but Tang Zhenshan did not ask him to compensate, it can be seen that Tang Zhenshan also made a bloody investment in order to improve the strength of the club.
This is probably also the reason why Tang Zhenshan is reluctant to fire Ma Kun, because compared with other horse doctors, Ma Kun, an experienced first-class horse doctor, has thrown them off a lot of streets, Tang Zhenshan is a smart businessman, so he naturally will not do this kind of thing of giving others a wedding dress.