Somehow, after being in a gel cast for six weeks, the fracture is worse. They're sending off the X-rays to Littleton Large Animal Clinic to determine if there's any hope, but it's sure not looking good.

We might have some tough decisions coming up.

Jack and Sylvia called him Rudy, I guess I will, too. Here's his picture.

Deuce:
Turns out he’s got a stress fracture on his splint bone. He’s been gel casted for three weeks now and has three more to go on stall rest until we do another round of X-rays to see if it healed. He’s convalescing OK, but at times has gotten a little piggish about his feed.

Turkey:
After blocking his coffin joint, he blocked sound. Good news, we thought. So we injected the joint. He’s sound in a straight line and to the left, but head bobbin’ lame to the right. Probably means soft tissue damage—a torn ligament. He gets turned out for 6-12 months for a possible recovery. It’s also likely that he’ll never recover. Big bummer.

Tuff:
The only bright spot in the whole deal. We finally figured all the right places to inject and the right treatments for his navicular and he’s been very sound. My wife rode him two days in the pasture with me (I was on borrowed horses) and heeled a couple steers, then rode him at a ranch rodeo and he seems to have held up through it all.

Frank: The 28-year-old kids horse is sound as a pound.
Don’t know where we’ll go from here for sure, I’ve just got to get through the fall works (shipping, weaning and preg checking) then everything can recuperate through the winter.