HEALTH CARE
For giving pills, it is much easier if you grind up the pills, add a little water, molasses or honey and feed as a paste wormer.
To help heal wounds faster by keeping the skin soft, use bacon grease or cold cream on the wound. The hair grows back unbelievably fast.
Meat tenderizer will help alleviate proud flesh if it is applied on a regular basis when the wound is fresh.
Recycle old fly masks for wounds allowing air to reach injury but to block insects. Cut a section of the mesh, place it over the wound and secure the top and bottom with self-adherent tape. Be careful that tape does not bind the leg.
Another wound healer, sugar and betadine solution. Mix to a paste like consistency. It is reported that the glucose in the sugar speeds up cellular mitosis by supplying energy and in conjunction with betadine, it acts as anti-bacterial agent.
Sore tendons or legs need sweating? Use Listerine. Run legs with Listerine in direction of the hair to reduce swelling.
For fungus, make sure to scrub scabs off completely. Wash with a medicated soap or use Betadine and once dry rub diaper rash ointment on the affected area (legs). The diaper rash ointment keeps the moisture out.
Use Preparation H on cuts and scrapes. It reduces swelling and promotes healing of irritated tissues.
Use Listerine to eliminate rain rot.
Instead of rubbing or spraying costly "chemicals" on your horse to ward off the bugs, try using Avon Skin So Soft, mix a 16oz bottle w/half gal. water, shake well before each use, and rub or spray on body, rub on face and around ears.
To get rid of an abscess, soak bread in hot milk and let cool, use as a poultice or wet cabbage leaves with boiling water, cool and use as a poultice.
White vinegar is good for sweating a horses leg. Soak a brown paper grocery bag in white vinegar. Cut out a flat piece. Rub the horses leg down with the vinegar. Apply the bag and wrap the rest as you would a sweat. It works great, and fast. It tightens the leg up and it is cheap. If you have an open wound, put apple cider vinegar on the cut and then sprinkle ground black pepper on it. The pepper will eat up the proud flesh and heal the cut back without that proud flesh look. Works great. The vinegar is a good wash and helps kill germs.
If your horse has a short tail and can't get at the flies very well in the summer. Grab some yarn or thin sections of fabric and braid them in little sections (leaving most of the hair loose) of the tail leaving about a foot of yarn or fabric of the ends. This will give your horse a longer weapon against flies. Remember, don't leave ends long enough for the horse to step on.
A 35mm film canister makes an easy way of measuring and carrying electrolyte powder for your horse as they hold one ounce or approximately 30 grams.
If your horse refuses to drink even though you have given it lots of time try putting a tablespoon of salt onto the tongue or into the lip of the horse. The salty taste sometimes causes the horse to start drinking.
Use equal parts of pickling lime and sugar as a wonder powder for proud flesh! If you feel like you aren't getting enough to stay on the affected area, just moisten the area with water or aloe juice before dusting. Repeat three or four times a day. Deana Hardin
If you have trouble removing your horse's chestnuts, smear them with petroleum jelly daily for 4 to 5 days. They will peel right off.
To prevent scarring use Desitin. It has zinc oxide that helps the wound heal and the hair grows back faster too.
If your horse gets sores from the girth chafing in the wrinkly armpit area, use a spray deodorant with a high talc content. You can also carry it in your saddle bags to reapply when it's been "worked off." You shouldn't get any more girth sores!
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