Hi folks,
I'll try and keep this as short as I can.
Two weeks ago my horse was found with an injury to his shoulder.
It's a 20cm deep puncture mark that runs straight to the humerus bone, which has had a 2cm fragment chipped off it.
The wound runs sort of upwards from the puncture mark, to the bone.
In this photo it was up to 48 hours old and the scabs and hair had just been shaved off.
I'm trying to find what could have caused this injury and I'm suspecting someone may have shot him with an arrow/bolt?
It's not unusual for horses to run into a fence but usually with that sort of injury, there will be a lot of trauma/bruising to the area and you'll get a large haematoma in the chest.
There was nothing to this injury other than the puncture mark.
It looks way to clean and deep for it to be any sort of normal horse occurance that I can think of.
As hunters, is anyone able to provide any comment on this?
Does it look like my horse has been shot? Can you tell me anything at all from this picture?
I would be very very appreciative as this was a competition dressage horse and he's not recovering from this injury. He will be put to sleep in the coming weeks.
Xrays of the humerus bone are here if this helps in any way.
http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/9061/xray1x.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5816/xray2.jpg
Thank you!