My horse is developing sores on his hips and hocks from the hard ground. He has a fluffy stall to sleep in but during the day he prefers sleeping outside. With the ground getting drier and harder I expect the sores to get worse.
I’ve seen horses with sores on their fetlocks from laying down. Those can be helped with boots or wraps whereas the hip area… well how do you wrap that?
Last year I saw a woman using a product that looked like a greenish clay. She smeared it on her horses knees and fetlocks. It not only healed the sores, it acted as a barrier against re-tearing the skin. She said it lasted about three days and then she would wash and reapply.
Has anyone seen this? I don’t know the woman so I can’t track her down.