Went to bring in Quz last night, he was busy face-fighting with my friend's QH, Spike. He got chased off by the OTTB, and eventually made his way back around to where I was standing (it's SO nice that I have a horse that comes to ME for once...less hiking in the snow!). It was then I noticed he had a 3" long blood icicle dangling from his jowl!!!
Had to melt it off (and the surrounding frozen blood-soaked fur) with warm water compresses, and trimmed the 2" long fur with scissors, then more with clippers, before I found the source of the bleeding. Mr. Quzqo somehow managed to give himself a 1/4" round puncture wound in his fat little jowl!! It's deep too, I flushed it with a syringe of warm water/Betadine, and I got the tip in 1/4" or so before he flung his head up in an "SHIT THAT HURT!" response! *sigh*
No debris came out, so it was a clean wound...HOW or WHY, I have no idea...and at least it's on the underside, so gravity will help drain it.
Didn't seem to bother him except when I put the (blunt) syringe tip into the open bloody wound, so that's good I guess.
Never have seen a blood icicle though...that's a new one on me (the air temps were around 12 degrees yesterday, which is why 100 degree blood could freeze solid within seconds of dribbling I guess)
(This is the bloodiest bleedingest horse I've ever known...Tezlu never got himself bloodied up so much!)
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Aren't those fun. My old 1/2 arab came in with one that was over an inch across and was 4 inches or so long. The actual wound wasn't so bad but there's something so dang gory about a blood icicle. Blech
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