Imaginative Horse Care

[wilf]

Here is a tip; after 10 or 20 or 30 years of rubbing horses and worrying about their every ailment your shoulders start to disintigrate and in the worst case you get "frozen shoulder". It happened to me and it was a nightmare. I could not get a good night's sleep or rub as hard or tighten a girth,then hallelujah; ADEQUAN. This stuff works on horses in a beneficial way and so in desperation I gave myself a 1cc intra muscular shot in the shoulder evey month for 4 months in a row this spring. The relief is heavenly and lasting and a lot cheaper than surgery. No I don't have more hairs on my back or howl at the moon. This product works in a similar fashion to glucosamine pills and by administering the stuff myself into the area of concern I feel that it was a chance worth taking.

[ireneinwa]

Baking soda given daily for 2 weeks cleans toxins out of their system.
If it's needed you'll start to see their urine darken and smell real bad, as it starts to work

[trackgal]

I buy all of my horse supplements at the Vitamin shop, MSM Vitamin E Glucosamine, whatever, my vet told me the "people" stuff is regulated by the FDA, so you know what you are getting, the horse stuff is not regulated and you don't know what you are getting, you just have to adjust the dose and it is alot cheaper.

[LKR]

How much baking soda would you use if you wanted to clean out their system?

[ireneinwa]

A table spoon a day in their ration

[Fair Play]

Listerine mouth wash can stop them from rubbing out a tail which is itchy from sweet itch.

[skywatcher]

sauerkraut for scratches or greasy heel. Take a plastic bread bag and slip it on the foot like a sock, pour in a can of saurerkraut, pack it onto the affected area then vetwrap or ducttape everything in place to make sure the saukraut stays up against the scratches.
After 3 days remove and the scabs should be gone. Hair will be removed too but the skin underneath shoudl be soft and pink like a baby's

[WarHorse]

"frozen shoulder"

Common in dressage riders. A good massage therapist can take care of that relatively cheaply.



Here is an article with some tips on minerals for the horse's diet: http://www.neverbluefarm.com/articles/n ... cle_1.html The guy's a friend of mine and has a clue.

[Lei Owen]

This tip was given to me by a friend's father who is a vet. For those pesky puncture wound's that horses somehow get from God knows where...once it's clean and no debris, use Mastitis medicine for cow's. Even has a tip to get it into the wound. Tractor Supply.

Redneck Ice Boot's. Cut the leg's off of an old pair of jean's. Sew or staple up hemmed end. Slip over the horses leg and fill with crushed ice. Secure with duct tape. Depending on the length of the jean leg, they can go clear up to their arm pit's!

If you have to fight with your horse to get them to take oral medicine or nasty tasting supplement, try mixing it with mashed banana or banana pudding. According to an article published in The Horse, a study was done in England for the flavor's horses like best. Banana was second on the list. Apple didn't even make the cut. (If we don't have a banana, we use brown sugar. )

[LKR]

Love the redneck ice boot idea. In the past, I have used wild strawberry
jello for flavoring. That won the taste award around here.

[Shammy Davis]

I noticed that the subject of bran has come up on other threads. Bran is a great supplement because it supposts digestion and helps the system to retain nutrients found in feed like oats or more often used concentrates. Brans contains salt and salt is probably one of the most vital aids to support digestion.

Salt alone, when fed dry is constipating. When fed wet it is a mild laxative, thus making a bran mash an ideal laxative.

[trackgal]

my neighbor swears by giving "ground flax seed, your horses will eliminate worms naturally she "fecal tests" before worming, and since she started the flax seed none of her guy's have had worms..

[Roger]

An older trainer I once used kept all horses on Aloe Vera juice from Sams Club and never had a case of ulcers in her barn. I give it to my rescue doxie for her acid stomach that causes her to have bad breath - works great, it's healthy and very inexpensive.

I've tried this since reading this post, I've been giving it to mare who acted like she had ulcers. I give her two ounces (1 60cc syringe) 5 minutes before each feeding. She really has picked-up her eating and she seems more eager to work. I've read where some people put it on the feed, but I'm sure that would be as good. Its been a week now and everything looks good. Have any of you tried it?

[Roger]

Rice bran contains23 mg/kg of Thiamin "B1". So for every lb you get almost 12 mgs. Rice bran needs supplimenting with a digestable source of calcium. Its feed tab indicates 12-15% of fat, 12-15% protein, and 12-15% of mostly digestable fiber. We can get it locally for around $13 per hundred. I thought that I had found the best feed around at the cheapest price. It is a good feed, but I did notice that the horses were much more calm. I just found out about the B1 content when I got my new NRC Nutrient Requirements of Horses.
I really think that rice bran is a calming agent. Horses at work need 5 mgs/kg of dry matter or 50mgs for every 10lbs. Mine were getting 130 per day.

I think you could buy B1 and calcium pills and ground them in a coffee grinder and top dress it on your feed and it should calm down any excitable horses

[cewright]

Rice bran contains23 mg/kg of Thiamin "B1". So for every lb you get almost 12 mgs. Rice bran needs supplimenting with a digestable source of calcium. Its feed tab indicates 12-15% of fat, 12-15% protein, and 12-15% of mostly digestable fiber. We can get it locally for around $13 per hundred. I thought that I had found the best feed around at the cheapest price. It is a good feed, but I did notice that the horses were much more calm. I just found out about the B1 content when I got my new NRC Nutrient Requirements of Horses.
I really think that rice bran is a calming agent. Horses at work need 5 mgs/kg of dry matter or 50mgs for every 10lbs. Mine were getting 130 per day.

I think you could buy B1 and calcium pills and ground them in a coffee grinder and top dress it on your feed and it should calm down any excitable horses

Roger

We feed our young horses and broodmares a cup of ground agricultural limestone top dressed on their feed every evening. They must crave the calcium as they lick the chalk dust off the bottom of the pans. I don't know if this calms the horses but according to my vet it prevents/treats OCD's, promotes increased bone density, and promotes growth. He cites a K-State study saying yearlings fed supplemental calcium showed better growth than a control group without the supplementation. I'll try and find the reference.

Where can I buy the rice bran at that price?

Chuck
Argyle, TX