I read somewhere someone had success sedating and pinching warts off their horses muzzel to speed up their recovery.
Anyone else tried this method before. I don’t usually care, but this horse has a show in 5 weeks and I’d like them gone before then.
They take as long as they take to go away. It’s been ten years since I dealt with them and I can’t remember the length of time. I want to say two months, but I don’t remember.
Does your horse have a white nose? Warts are so much uglier on white noses. 
Or you can rub cod liver oil on them twice a day and they disappear in about 6 weeks.
Buy the wart removal product in drugstore. The freezing product. It works.
Must be two months, then! :lol:
But the cod liver oil would make the human feel like they’re doing something. 
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What age do horses usually get these? I have a 2yo that hasn’t had them and I’d like to be able to gird my loins for this. I’m sure exposure is really the factor, but I remember seeing warty noses on young HORSES and not real babies. I don’t suppose there’s any way to avoid these on a horse that’ll be showing?
Not all horses get them. In my case a young (4-5yr old) horse with warts moved into the barn where I boarded. My weanling got them, but my 10yr old who had never had warts didn’t.
Many years ago an old vet told me to pinch one of the warts to make it bleed. His explanation was that it would kick in the immune system. It seemed to work but maybe it was just coincidence as the warts will eventually go away even without treatment.
Since they are a virus, pinching them isn’t going to do anything to the internal root, it will grow back and in some cases spread the virus. The only way to handle them, other than wait for them to go away, is to freeze them off, which kills the virus if you include the base of it.
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UPDATE I pinched them and it worked!! amazingly quick too. I did it on 2 different horses, after I pinched them, they were just little white dots the next day and the remaining warts that I couldn’t get off were gone by the weeks end. I did this on 2 of the yearlings in my barn. Both going to be shown off, and couldn’t wait longer to for the body to take care of it on it’s own. So for those that think it’s going to make it worse I have to say in my experience it did NOT at all! I would do it again in a heart beat (with tranq of course). It wasn’t that hard fyi, just kinda bloody, I had longish natural nails and it was easy to just scrape, pinch them off. I was also skeptical on the second one as she had just started growing them, about 3 weeks in, and I thought some of the ones that were still just growing would keep growing, but it didn’t. I don’t know if it kick started the immune system or not, but they were gone within 5 days.
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