[hil529]

the pics are a bit gross and graphic.. but its amazing how it turned out.


i moved my mare from a farm where she lived off hay to a farm with 6 acres of pure luch grass.. is there soemthing in the grass that can make a scar heal very quickly??

about 3 years ago, my mare was chased through a high tenstitle wire fence. she totally skinned her back left leg. it was horrible. she was never supose to be riden again. let alone not limp when she walks. we were forced to put thousands of dollars into the experamental ACell stem cell use. it worked wonders. within about 6 months, u could see total progress, but then my funds for her ran out and i was forced to stop. i was basicly broke. we tryed everything. finally we came upon silvadine cream(sp?) that hospitals use on burn victims. that helped alot.
in a little less than 2 years, he leg was almost completely closed. i no that sounds like a long time, but teh vet basicly gave us no hope. so it truly was a miracle.

however. a real scar never formed. the middle of the cut was like white (i forget wat that type of tissue is called. but it wasnt real scar tissue) then there was black skin/scar tissue and little tiny fuzzes of hari alnong the edges that were growing back in. but about 6 months later, everything just seemed to stop. she wasnt in any pain what so ever.. actually, beleive it or not she was never lame a day since it happend. not even wen her leg was gaping open.

so i just kinda got use to how it looked.. i didnt care. as long as she wasnt in pain, i was happy. anyways, so y ive told you all this is because i just moved my mare to all this grass and well, in a matter of the 4 weeks of her being on it, her scar has almost toatally healed!!!!! its amazing!!!! my vet is going to be out next week for her vacs. so im going to ask him about it but i was just wondering what you guys thought. is tehre something in grass that can make it heal like that??? even after soo long??



* the pics *
the first day

2 weeks

about a month

1 1/2 months

2 months

2 1/2 months

3 months

3 1/2 months

4 months

5 months

5 1/2 months

6 months

[MissBandit]

Are you posting recent pics? Those pics do look so awful. Your poor mare.
I don't know what you are talking about as per the grass? I don't see anything spectacular about her healing in any of these pics...

[Jess!]

MissB, those are old pics.

As for the healing, I'm not sure about the grass question. Perhaps she was lacking something in her diet and the grass provided it.

[MissBandit]

Yes, well I assumed the poster was giving us pics of this incredible healing...??

It would be nice to see such a positive outcome from a terrible injury.

[Jess!]

You'd think she would be.

Hil529, when do we get to see recent pictures?

[aqh88]

There are many vitamins and minerals that are destroyed when grass(or alfalfa) is dried into hay. It might have been the vitamins/minerals in her feed or supplements were not enough to build the new tissue needed to heal the wound completely. Or it was just ready to heal finally and it happened to coincide with being turned out on a pasture.

[Sue B]

Grass does provide healing/health properties....more than researchers currently fully understand.

Grass contains several essential nutrients that are not provided in hay and other feedstuff. That is why you will see me often posting about providing flax and kelp for horses that have compromised immune systems. Most often these horses are either on limited/no pasture, or they are on poor pasture. When horses are not provided with essential nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids, chlorophyll and some other things that are rarely mentioned as esstential to horse diets....they begin to lose their ability to heal and sustain health (espcially from infection).

When I started rehabing metabolic horses and severe founder cases, I realized that there was a lot lacking in horse diets....espcially those that have limited/no fresh grass in them.

Additionally, fresh grass is the primary source of probiotics...without a proper balance of colonies in the digestive track for digestion...horses simply can't properly create or absorb nutrients from their food...no matter how much you give them.

It is no surprise to me that putting this horse on grass helped complete ist healing in such a short time. There was so much lacking in its diet that it is a wonder it healed as well as it did.

So glad to hear that her leg is finally getting to where it should be.

[Barefoot]

SueB, your such a wealth of knowledge..... I love reading your posts, i learn so much!

[hil529]

here are the ones about 1-2 weeks before we moved her .. over 3 years after the injury happend




i will have the most recent ones up tomorrow .. im sorry .. my computer is acting up and my brotehr is in the hospital. i couldnt get the pictures tonight. but see the black skin that is around the edge in that ones bfore the move? the whole scar is pretty much black now ..



and as for about the grass .. i was wondering if it ahs any like healing agents or certain nutrients (sp) that she wasnt getting before


and sue B haha wow u basicly solved that one for me .. thanks alot!!

[Super Step]

I am a firm believer that after the initial healing begins, the most critical time is past, that a horse should ample access to good pasture.

It is more difficult to control flies or to keep some healing wounds clean, especially of plant seeds, but the healing does seem to improve when a horse in on good grass. At least in my experience.

I always thought it was because of trace minerals and the horse being able to meet internal cravings/needs. But Sue has a great point about probiotics.