Frog and heel bruising
Chrystal Woodhouse
Don't bother lecturing me about giving her time she has had that and will have more of that,. as I said if she is not totally 100% by Sat she isn't going out on trail. Just want to try what I can before then.
Chrystal :-)
Sheri Devouassoux
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Linda Cowles
>>Hi any miracle cures for frog and heel bruising- it is about 2-3 weeks old, my mare is much better but still ouchy on gravel fine on soft stuff however have faint hope if I can get her 100% in the next 4 or 5 days of doing a 50 next Sunday. Right now am poulticing with epsom salt as of tomorrow ( 4 days before ride) will switch to Traumeel unless someone has a better idea. I will run around in circles at midnight chanting with a dead chicken if someone promises me that will fix her!!! :-)
>>Don't bother lecturing me about giving her time she has had that and will have more of that,. as I said if she is not totally 100% by Sat she isn't going out on trail. Just want to try what I can before then.
Traumeel is always good, I start with it. I have a client who has a horse with occasionally sensitive feet (old laminitic case) and she packs his soles with Hawthorn, wraps the hoof in plastic wrap and boots him over night, and she says he loves it… appears to have an anelgesic effect and doesn’t screw the frog up too bad.
http://www.hawthorne-products.com/catalog.asp?prodid=635861&showprevnext=1
Packing the sole with Sore-No-More soaked cotton batting may help too… or Arnica gel (my favorite but have yet to use in on soles or frogs). Most of the time this is a bruise and simply needs to heal.
Linda Cowles
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Kristen A Fisher
Our farrier uses Magic Cushion on horses with pads but puts something that looks like frayed jute on the sole, then MC over it, so when it’s time for a reset the whole thing just comes off. So maybe use something like that to keep mess factor down?
Kristen
Karen Standefer
The other thing I use is Durasole. It will do the same thing as the iodine/sugar, but is easier to use since you just squirt it on. However, when I use the, I like to keep them in a stall with shavings to help keep the foot dry.
I definitely would NOT soak in anything wet unless you think there is an abscess!
Linda Cowles
>>Magic Cushion. That stuff is fantastic! I have seen it perform miracles on bruised soles and frogs. My horse lost a boot on a ride in Indiana last month. He went about 20 miles on rocks and was a Grade 3 at the vet check. The ride vet said he would probably be unrideable for about two weeks because of the bruising. I wrapped his hoof for three consecutive days with Magic Cushion and that horse was sound. 100%.
Yep, I was trying to remember the name of it, I’ve used this too! It is super messy, use gloves! I wrap the feet in zip-lock bags for an hour than take the bags off and it’ll stay in place for a day or two, it is super good.
I hate the jar it comes in, it leaks, I keep it in my car because I used to use it allot (I’m a trimmer) and…. Yuck. But it works great.
Sheri Devouassoux
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Linda Cowles
>>>Yep, I was trying to remember the name of it, I’ve used this too! It is super messy, use gloves! I wrap the feet in zip-lock bags for an hour than take the bags off and it’ll stay in place for a day or two, it is super good.
>>What a fantastic idea! I will have to try that next time I use Magic Cushion. So, Linda, you do not use any sort of boot at all? And I agree with you on the jar that the stuff comes in. It is a pain! Sheri Devoussoux
What I do is clean the sole with denatured alcohol and a wire brush, (slop some alcohol in and brush a little) then dry it with a paper towel (have the horse stand on a wad of towels) and then pack the sole with Magic Cushion.
If the horse is barefoot and has smaller feet, after I pack the sole, I hold the hoof in one hand and strip the latex gloves off and over the top of the foot so that it is a hoof wrap.
I wear Large Nitrile latex gloves because I put them on over top of my farrier gloves (Atlas Nitrile)… after a few hours the hoof pack stays in so I don’t worry about the gloves wearing through. I’ve had it last a few days on barefoot horses, imagine it would stay in longer on shod horses.
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Linda K
then wash with water.
Linda in Leona Valley
k s swigart
inadvertently violate the AERC's drug rule, I would be very careful about using
DMSO (which I know is a banned substance) or Magic Cushion (which is advertised
as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic).
The Magic Cushion website does not give an ingredient list for their product (at
least I couldn't find one there), and I would be leery of taking their statement
"It is a natural product and will not test positive in any equine athletic
discipline" for granted because that is what Olympic riders were told by product
manufacturers about the products that contained capsacin, only to be
disqualified when they found out the hard way that capsacin CAN be tested for.
If I were to go shopping for the stuff, I would read the ingredient list off the
container. One would hope that it is there...and if it weren't, I wouldn't buy
it as "all natural ingredients" wouldn't be good enough for me.
The fact that it is advertised as an anti-inflammatory and an analgesic
certainly puts it in violation of the spirit of the AERC's drug rule (which bans
the use of any substance with a pharmacological effect, whether it can be tested
for or not).
kat
Orange County, Calif.
Sheri Devouassoux
Valerie Jaques
list of ingredients, but it is short and they all clear the list.
Since I use it on every horse I pad whether they are sole sore or not,
I called the company and checked. I like it under pads because it sets
up in the sole and does not displace, keeping out dirt and rocks other
hoof packings can allow in.
Buddy
of the hoof to protect from brusises. So apply pine tar before or
after the injury occures? Does it come in pill form?
Kathy Sherman
what I do for sure (:>) Seriously though, I don't see how a horse's
sole can get much callus if they are shod and living on something
other than hard rocky ground, so a pad and Magic Cushion or some other
packing material seems like a good choice to me. Even a barefoot horse
living in groomed pasture has a hard time building callus, thus the
hoof boots for aggressive and/or long rides. Got to take care of the
hooves.
Kathy
Valerie Jaques
horses that have required pads for years get out of pads after three
or four shoeings with Magic Cushion. There are riders (typically top-
ten endurance riders) who prefer to pad every time, to protect their
horses' soles during competition. Nothing wrong with that. I don't
decline to perform a service if it doesn't harm the horse. And what in
the world would possess you to think a pill of any sort would have the
same effect??