INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue: 2

Clinical management of traumatic bull horn gore injury in a mare

  • Author:
  • Deepti Bodh1,, N.S. Jadon2
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 319 to 320

1Assistant Professor, Brand of Intas Animal Health, Ahmedabad

2Professor and Head, Brand of Intas Animal Health, Ahmedabad

Department of Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology (GBPUAT), Pantnagar, - 263145, (Uttarakhand)

*Corresponding author, E-mail: deeptibodh@yahoo.in

Online published on 1 October, 2020.

Abstract

The report presents successful management of large goring wound on right groin area of a mare sustained from horn gore by a stray bull. Topical wound dressing with Calendula flower extract and glycerine paste, antibiotic coverage in addition to routine wound management resulted in complete healing after twenty eight days.

Keywords

Calendula officinalis, Horn gore, Horse, Wound