A spray bottle with undiluted betadine solution, or less messy, chlorhexadine, to lightly spray the dry coat of a horse prone to rain rot. When it rains, it dilutes it, soaks it into the skin. Voila’-prevention, automatically.
And I always remember beagle oil being used for absolutely everything.[/QUOTE]
Maybe it’s just me but I love the smell of bigeloil, lol.
Equsrider- I WILL be using toothpaste on my conf. hunter mare’s ear!!! I’ve already paid once for that sarcoid to be gone, and it did come back. I had also been taught by an old horse show trainer to paint hoof soles with venice turpentine to toughen them up. Another idea - if you need to ice a horse, take an old pair of jean, cut them inhalf ( separate one leg from the other). Sew up the bottom of the cuff. Take a soft length of cloth to use over the horse’s neck/withers. Put the horse’s leg into the jeans as if he would be wearing it, add ice, and tie just like regular ice boots, over his neck/withers with the soft cloth to prevent rubs. Great substitute for ice boots if you don’t have any and need 'em NOW.Again, thanks to everyone for their great reminisces. If you can think of anymore, keep 'em coming.
PS- anybody remember that splint remedy?? It’s driving me nuts!
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There are so many more…but remember I am part of the generation when we actually put oil in areanas to keep the dust down.[/QUOTE]
I would not do that although I remember it (and the smell) from way back when.
From Dr. Warren Perez, racetrack vet, recently deceased… “hydrated” or “slaked” lime powder for wounds…changes pH so bacteria don’t grow, drains serum, deters flies and heals without scars. I thought he’d lost his marbles but tried it on a filly cut to ribbons by a fool of a seller and too late to do sutures…got a 50# bag of it at a farm/ranch supply for $3.50 and used a turkey baster to suck some up and “puff” onto wounds…it dries, crusts, flakes off and I just put more on…10 days, completely healed, a few scabs left…20 days…no scars, new hair growing. Used it several times since…don’t wet down, don’t wrap…just puff on and leave it alone. You can get small amounts at the canning supply area of larger grocery stores (used for pickling) or in garden/ranch/farm supply stores…make sure it says “slaked” or “hydrated”…the other stuff burns like a son of a gun!! Store in sealed plastic bag inside trash can or something water proof…KEEP DRY in storage. Main ingredient in things like Cut and Heal, other wound powders and way less expensive.
Running Fox Farm, I would use a Q-tip to administer toothpaste to ear, don’t want to spread those nasty sarcoids anywhere…It will get crusty after a day or two, remove and clean this with a wet wipe then re-apply Crest. Keep at it! it is not a fast fix but does work!!Be liberal with the Crest!! Good Luck and let me know how it works for you!!
WISPING! Especially with a home-made, braided hay wisp. I actually made one of these once, I must have been really bored.
1 Gallon apple cider vinegar
1 small bottle of oil of wintergreen
1 small jar alum (the whole spice jar size)
Shake well, then paint on fat legs, splints, etc.
Wrap one hour.
POOF.
Swelling gone.
Hardest part of this recipe is finding an apothecary that stocks oil of wintergreen.
Yep – guessed that this must be main ingredient in Wonder Dust, and it is:
Ingredients. Medicinal Ingredients: Iodoform 2.0%, Potassium Alum 5.0%, Flowers of Sulfur 2.0%, Tannic Acid 2.0%, Activated Charcoal 5.0%, Copper Sulfate 13.0%, Hydrated Lime 71.0%
Eucalyptus
