Yet Another New Horse - It's Peach!

[Heinz_57]

He just knows he’s royalty and demands the proper treatment.

BTDT on the boot sucking mud…moved to TX from the PNW and I’m sure you can imagine how much joy it gives me when the “mud” here dries up in all of 48 hours.

I ran across a product earlier this week that claims to encourage re-growth of hair on scars, even old ones. It’s spendy but I’m thinking I may give it a shot.

While vanity does play a small role in wanting to try it, the bigger issue is that the bugs absolutely FLOCK to the bald scars on both his front legs and the skin is starting to get irritated. If I could get even a little hair to grow back there, he’d be much happier.

@trubandloki

I have a mare who sounds like she went to the same - how to train your humans - training camp as Peach did. Same freaking things.

Isn’t it maddening? It doesn’t help that his neighbor is one of my cleanest hoovers. Absolutely no wisp of hay or crumb of pellet left behind, ever.

[widge]

What’s the product? I have one with a scar inside his fetlock that could use the extra protection that hair offers.

[jvanrens]

@Heinz_57

While vanity does play a small role in wanting to try it, the bigger issue is that the bugs absolutely FLOCK to the bald scars on both his front legs and the skin is starting to get irritated. If I could get even a little hair to grow back there, he’d be much happier.

A cheap and easy try is Vaseline. Most bugs hate it. It also keeps wound areas soft so they heal well. If it doesn’t help you’ll find out quickly. I learned this when I was a kid, the crazy horse lady down the road used to put it around her horses eyes to keep the flies off them in the days way before flymasks.

[Heinz_57]

@widge

What’s the product? I have one with a scar inside his fetlock that could use the extra protection that hair offers.

Neighked Horse Regrow. I’m still on the fence, most of the reviews seem to be from people using it on rubbed out manes/tails or other temporary coat loss situations where the hair would’ve grown back anyway, not healed over scars. I’ve also seen a variety of ‘home remedy’ type things that people claim to help regrow hair - namely, Vagisil (don’t really understand that one, it’s just hydrocortisone + analgesics) and Preparation H. And of course plain old Vit C oil.

I suppose the home remedies would be easier to try first before ordering an expensive highly-targeted horse hair potion from the UK

[findeight]

Try the vaseline first. Most of the spendy stuff is based on the old timey basic remedies, petroleum jelly being one of them, it does have looooong known medicinal uses especially with skin irritation issues…and bugs hate it. When I started, that is what we had and it does work as well as the celebrity endorsed trendy product du jour. It is still recommended for diaper rash too. Does not stink either,

[Aussie_2020]

Back in the 80’s I had a horse with big scars on his neck. My brother started putting his old burn medicine on it. A lot of hair grew back in! And the scars were about two years old. It was a remedy from an old country doctor, I think it was called FRST. I’m sure it’s no longer around, but one of the ingredients was fish oil and it also had vit E. My horse stunk for months! The hair that grew back was mainly his bay coloring, only a few whites.

[Heinz_57]

I mistakenly decided that today would be a good day to glue shoes (spoiler alert, thunderstorms in the afternoon). Then I mistakenly decided that I’d take a chance on using a half-used bottle of glue that has sat for 6 months. I used that on the left shoe, it did not set at all and hail marys were thrown. I pumped it full of more glue from the new tube and hopefully squished out as much of the un-set old glue as I could. It looks like a kindergartener glued it, but it’s ON. For now. I’d be surprised if it stays on for a full cycle.

And I don’t even care that the glue looks like garbage, because I was treated to this lovely heel-first landing demonstration as soon as I turned him back out.

Later I will try to upload some video of his interpretive dance moves.

[JBCool]

Hunterland, here comes Peach!