i have gotten a new horse recently and i dont know how it really happened but i was told that he had ran through barbed wire fence and it was never taken care of properly and it had closed. well a couple of days later it reopened and its been several months and i tried everything i could think of. Does any body have suggestions on what i should try?

My friends mare had a cut on her leg. She got some paste from the vet that helped heal it up.
Also try some salts and warm water. It will draw the infection out and keep everything soft, so she won't get proud flesh.

Is there dead tissue around the cut? It will look kminda dark brown and dry. If so, you will need to have someone cut the dead tissue out and possibly stich it up. Dead tissue won't grow bback togeather. -Phillip

Um.. Call the vet? *sigh*

I use Emu oil on all of my horses cuts, scrapes, fly bites and any thing that requires repair. I had an old gelding that cut his leg about a 6 inch slice going down his upper front leg.. the whole leg was swollen and the vet wasn't able to sew it up, but recommended putting the Emu oil on it.. I washed the cut every morning and put the oil on it and by the end of the week it was almost healed up and by the end of the second week you couldn't tell where the cut was at.. no proud flesh and just a very faint scar.. I had a wart on the side of my nose that I put some Emu oil on and within a week it was dried up and gone and no mark.. at the present time I am putting it on my mares udder where she had been bit by something and she had a huge lump and was swollen up on one side.. it is now down and almost all gone.. there is a place in Kalispell, MT that makes it.. it is called "Laid In Montana Emu Products" they ahve a website..
I don't think you would be sorry if you tried it.

Donna T.