Does anyone have any advice for keeping the equiwinner patches on? I tried tape as they suggested with no luck. Every day I would find it in the field having been rolled on.
Platinum Refresh didn’t help us, and so far the patches haven’t, but they also haven’t stayed on for more then 12 hours or so.
I’m glad for the weather reprieve we’re getting - going to ride this morning so we’ll see how it goes!
Elastikon?
Was coming here to ask this exact question, ha! Yesterday was our first day with the patch. i put it on in the afternoon, not sure exactly how long it stayed off, but the barn manager texted me around 10am to say she founded it lying on the ground. She’s going to put another one on and try the neck this time instead of the butt. but sounds like I might need to look into some intense adhesive!
The trick with Equiwinner patches is to brush with and against the grain of the hair in that area and then apply some alcohol and let that dry before applying the patch. The oils in hair and fly sprays disrupt the adhesive. You have to get those off before applying the patch.
…the patches didn’t work for me though. But they stayed on.
This year has been really bad. I am normally ok out in the thickest heat, but even I have gassed out and overheated multiple times this year.
they are an absolute hail mary for me. So i’m not expecting miracles. But I’m willing to try! Getting them to stay on will be critical though. I did rub down with alcohol yesterday before putting it on. But i didn’t brush against the grain, only with. I also have an itchy horse who loves scratching on anything she can. Barn manager suspects it came off while she did her morning scratches. sigh.
Gotcha. There was a pamphlet with application instructions in the package I received. The owner of the company did refund my money once it was ineffective, so thats great.
I tried the bushing both directions, but with no alcohol. I’ll try that next. It is like it actually pulled all the hair off with it - the patch was covered in hair with roots!! Maybe my mare is just a very vigorous roller. She does sweat under the patch but haven’t seen any improvement elsewhere.
we’ve had some wet days, so we can’t be CERTAIN, but it does look like my mare sweat some on her neck for the first time in forever. But she lost the second patch we put on her within a few hours…I’m going to wait until tomorrow to put another one so I don’t end up using up all my patches in one day.
I might need to wrap her whole body to keep it on.
I did two boxes of the EquiWinners and for some reason I didn’t have much trouble keeping the first box on him (I think one he rolled and then bucked off when a rainstorm blew up), but he ditched a few of the second box before the 24 hours was up. My BM would find them when dragging the pasture and leave them wedged in the gate for me to find, LOL.
They didn’t start any miraculous sweating, but I felt like he was starting to come around at the tail end of the first box, so I waited a few weeks and kind of thought he was regressing and started the second box. I didn’t really notice much with that box. Then the cool spell came and he hasn’t needed to sweat for a while.
I tried taping a patch once and he was so coated in fly spray nothing would stick to him very well.
I did find that putting it like right over the loin area instead of his rump helped it stay put better. But you definitely have to brush, back-brush, re-brush, etc. and slap it on there when they’re good and dry.
well the brushing with and against the grain and lots of rubbing alcohol still didn’t get them stay. But my mare’s coat is basically nonexistant, so I wonder if that is part of it. Today I put medical tape AND duct tape on the edges, so let’s see if it at least makes it through the night.
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