lumpy jaw

Hi guys: Whets up.
I learned something today, So I guess at the age of 63 we are never to old to learn something.
I bought a 5 year old ¼ gilding last summer and he started to lose weight real fast,
I have been in the horse business all of my life and I am a Iowa certified vet Tech.
I made a phone call to the vet this morning. Because I am puzzled not knowing what is wrong with this horse, I have been feeding him Cracked corn/Oats, mineral, real good grass hay, 98% protean top dressing and had hid teeth floated, What I learned today was
This horse has {LUMPY JAW} . The very same thing that cattle get both the vet and I
Did a back flip.
Have any of you guys ever heard of this?
We talked to anther vet and he came up with the very same answer. This is seen in cattle only. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT.
GOGOL IT AND IT WILL EXPLAIN IT.
This horse has all of the symptoms, what is your thoughts.
MANY THANKS
JR FRYE

Google lumpy jaw in horses.

Actinomycosis (Lumpy Jaw)
Humans & animals

Jr Frye, it is frustrating getting "Used" animals. My wife use to take in farm animals that people no longer wanted. They would move to the country thinking that now they can have that horse, goat, chickens etc, yet after awhile they get sick of feeding them or listening to their noises, or cleaning after them, and they would always want out. I guy at the local TSC would direct them to my wife. I would get first dibs on goats or chickens, on account of the girl finding homes for them was married to me. I would honor the "Do Not Eat Them" request, as long as eggs milk or breeding were not offlimits, if so, they went to another home(That never was the case. I have never seen anyone adversed to me milking their former goat or keeping eggs.) Most of my goats came from a line that valued at about $50-$100. One day a lady called my wife with a Lamancha pure bred. This billy goat had to be worth a goat fortune, we are talking about a high dollar show goat. The contact at Tractor Supply, also felt that this goat could have gone for almost a thousand dollars. The woman who had the goat had not fed the goat in quite some time. We tried everything, but the following afternoon the billy goat died on my kitchen floor. What kills me isn't that people are not nice to their animals. I could careless if they eat them, but, if she didn't want to feed this goat, the line of those willing, including myself, of those who would be thrilled to have such a cool animal is huge. The idea that she would starve an animal that is worth more than half my herd, at the time, when she could have sold him to someone who would feed it, and netted herself a handsome profit will never be clear with me.

NO GOOGLE 1/4 GELDING!! I have gotten a lot of good laugh's off this forum, from reading it for years now, and have seen JR come and go for a long time, but he just cracked me up with that! I hope he means a gelding Quarter horse, but some abreviations just dont come out right! It sounds like the pony has more troubles s, than a lumpy jaw!

Never heard of horse having that but i don"t see why they couldn"t get it.

I"d use LA 200 or Noramycin 300. I got better results with that on the case I had with a cow then the vet did with Silver Iodide IV.

In that case it was recurrent and I finally shipped the oow.

JR, does this look like your
Quarterhorse?

A 1/2 Gelding is a more common occurance than a 1/4. Takes a very deft knife to obtain one of those......