How to Treat a Leg Wound on Your Horse When No Vet Is Available

1.  bandage right over the clean and disinfected wound. This bandage needs to be something that will not stick to the horse and hurt when it comes off, so use a foam pad or calcium alginate.
2. Roll the cotton down to the lower leg and then keep unrolling it until it is back towards the top. (If you do not have roll cotton, you can also use a clean diaper so that the gauze will not be too tight over the wound.) I like to split the end of the gauze roll at this time and tie the ends together. Be careful to not make it as tight as a tourniquet.
3. If you have access to an elastic bandage (like vetrap), start at the bottom just below where you have tied your gauze roll closed. Wrap the elastic bandage down the leg.
4. Once the elastic is applied, I like to use some medical tape to hold everything up. The first loop should go around the upper leg, with

1.  half stuck to the roll gauze and half to the horse's hair. The next loop goes on half to the medical tape below, half to the horse's hair.
2. If the medical tape comes loose later, you may need to apply another roll.
3. If flies are a problem in your area, spray a repellent on the outside of the bandage to discourage them from landing and annoying your horse.

How to Prevent Proud Flesh

Proud flesh is the granulation tissue that develops over a wound that is not closed. It can be mild or in some cases so severe that the skin cannot even grow back and the wound will never heal.

The most common treatment for proud flesh is surgical removal. I