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| When you see (H) next to the name of a recipe it means that it is also for human use and is the amount you would mix for human use. You may need to adjust the amounts for your horses. |
| Cold Packs A cold pack helps the most durning the first 24 to 48 hours after the injury. It decreases blood flow, reduces pain swelling and inflammation. Apply ice pack two to three times a day. This will help lower your horse's tissue temperature from it's existing level to 59 to 66 degrees Fahrenheit. But any drop in temperatre will do good. You can use a bag of frozen peas on the injured area. Hold in place with a wrap. The peas conture to the area. 30 mintues. |
| Hot Packs Heat helps the most 72 horse or more after the injury. The heat increases blood flow. Increased blood flow helps improve soft tissue flexibility, reduces pain, and speeds healing. Apply heat two to three times per day. Your goal is to raise your horse's tissue temperature from its existing level to 104 to 113 degrees Fahrenheit. Any increase is helpful. You can buy hot packs from the store. Secure it with a wrap. Do not wrap to tightly, loose enought to secure the hot pack. 30 minutes. |
| For Babies Bottom Ingredients: Backing Soda 2 gallons Water Cooks Thermometer Plastic Cup 3 Clean Washcloths Rubber Gloves Baby Shampoo Aloe Vera Gel A&D Ointment Instructions: Mix 1/2 cup of baking soda in two gallons of 100 degree Fahrenheit water. Wet a rag and gently wet the foals bottom and any smeared manure. For really dry areas lay the soaked rag across the area for a couple minutes and use a cup to pour more of the cleaning solution over the rag as needed. Rinse the foal with a second rag dipped in the cleaning solution. Repeat with a third rag if needed. Make sure to get all manure cleaned off. Apply one tablespoon of Aloe Vera Gel to the underside of the tail, butt and previously soiled areas. Rub in to the skin to soothe any irritation. Then apply A&D Ointment to the same area so his bottom is visivly greasy. Or for a light clean up you can use alcohol-free baby wipes. |
| Foal 'Diaper' Rash Ointment Ingredients: 1 teaspoon Mineral Oil 2 teaspoons Cornstarch Baby Powder 2 teaspoons Zinc Oxide Ointment 2 teaspoons Triple Antibiotic Ointment 2 teaspoons Lotramin A/F Ointment (Clotrimazole Cream, Optional) Instructions: Mix oil and cornstarch powder until a suspension is formed. Add ointments and mix well. Place in container with lid. Apply with rag. Yields 2 ounces. |
| Poultice One Ingredients: 1/2 cup Epsom Salts 4 cups Millers Wheat Bran Warm Water as needed Instructions: Mix well add enough water to form a good paste. |
| Poultice Two Ingredients: Epsom Salts Warm Water Instructions: Mix to make a paste. |
| Poultice Three Ingredients: Kaopectate Flour or Miller's Bran Instructions: Mis to make a paste |
| Poultice Four Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) Witch Hazel Instructions: Mix to make a paste. |
| Poultice Five Ingredients: Table Sugar Betadine Solution Instructions: Mix to make a paste |
| Girth Sores 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 has been worked off. |
| Scab Softener For Ring Worm (fungal infections), Rain Rot (bacterial infection), Scratches. Ingredients: 1/2 oz Tincture of Iodine 16 oz Mineral Oil or Baby Oil 16 oz 3% Hydrogen Peroxide Instructions: Daub onto affected areas or individual scaps with sponge or wad of cotton, then leave on overnight to loosen and disinfect. Mix only what you need. Sore the rest in a loosly covered bucket. Not in an enclosed bottle! IT WILL EXPLODE! |
| Saline Solution Ingredients: 1 teaspoon Table Salt 1 quart Water Instructions: Mix until salt is dissolved. You can put this in a spray or squirt bottle. |
| Epson Salt Soaking Solution Ingredients: 1/2 cup Epsom Salt 1 gallon Warm Water Instructions: Mix until salt is dissolved. Soak affected body part or by applying a wet dressing. |
| Temeporary Pain Relief Immediately before treating wound, apply Chlorseptic Throat Spray to the affected area. The spray numbs the skin for a short time, allowing you to treat the area without agitating the horse. |
| Warts To get rid of warts on your horse use a 7% iodine solution called Black Iodine or Lugol's Solution. Rub this solution on the warts with a clean, soft cloth. Two to three times a day until they are gone. Usually they will disappear within a week. |
| Directions for Making Salves (H) (These direcetions are used for the salve recipes listed below.) To make salve, we extract the beneficial properties of our herbs in oil, then add beeswax to harden the oil. The recipes are in parts so you may make as much or as little as you need. To begin your salve, measure the desired amounts of herb into an enamel or stainless stell pan, or into a crock pot. Cover the herbs with oil. Use enough oil to cover the herb plus another inch of oil above the lever of herbs. Heat the herbs and oil over a low heat for several hours (about 3 hours). If you are using roots you should heat the oil longer (about 5 hours). Crock pots are better suited for this. After heating, cool your oild for awhile. Set up a strainer lined with cheesecloth then pour the oil through to strain. When most of the oil has filtered through the cheescloth, keeping the herbs inclosed, and squeeze as much oil as possible from the herbs and cloth. Add beeswax to the oil and heat it until all the wax is melted. To test to see if your salve is hard enough put some on a spoon and set it in a cool place for a few minutes. If your salve is to soft add more beeswax. If you are using essential oils or Vitamin E you can blend them in now. Finally, pour your salve into containers and label. The beeswax can be measured by how much oil you use. 1 pint of oil -1 1/2 oz beeswax 12-14 oz of oil - 1 oz of beeswax 1 oz of oil - 1/2 teaspoon beeswax There is about 5 teaspoons of beeswax in 1 oz. St. Johns' Wort Salve (H) Ingredients: 1 part St. Johsn Wort 1 part Calendula 1 part Comfrey Leafs Olive Oil Beeswax Vitamine E Uses: Use for bites, itching, wounds, burns, fungal infections, inflammations, bruises and sores. Chickweed Salve (H) Ingredients: 2 parts Chickweed 2 parts Plantian 1 part Comfrey Olive Oil Beeswax Vitamin E Uses: Use for soothing itching caused by insect bites, healing minor skin ireeitations, inflammations, blisters, boils, abscesses, bone injuries, and muscle injuries. Goldenseal Salve (H) Ingredients: 1 part Goldenseal Root 1 part Comfrey Root 1 part Calendule 1 part Echinacea 1 part Myrrh Olive Oil Beeswax Vitamin E Uses: Use this salve to prevent infections and aid in the healing of wounds. This soothes inflamed tissues, reduce pain and abscesses. Black Walnut Salve (H) Ingredients: 2 parts Black Walnut 2 pars Chaparral 1 part Myrrd 1 part Burdock 1 part Enchinacea Olive Oil Beeswax Vitamin E Optional - Tea Tree Oil - 10 drops per ounce Uses: This salve is primarily used to fight fungal infections. |
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| Rain Rot/Scratches Ingredents: 1 liter Generic Listerine 1/2 bottle(7 oz) Baby Oil 2 cp 2% Chlorhexidine Gluconate Solution Tea Tree Oil Directions: Mix in large bottle lasts about 4 days. Put in spray bottle. Spray on, next day wipe off with towel and reapply. |
| Scratches Ingredents: 4 oz Desitin Baby Ointment (Zinc Oxide for sunscreen) 3 oz Furacin of Nitrofurazine Ointment (Bacterial Agent) 1 oz Desinex Athletes Foot Ointment or Powder (Fungicide) 1 oz 0.5% Hydrocortison Cream (to remove irritation and allow skin to heal itself) Directions: Mix all together and apply to affected area being sure to rub well into the skin. Wear gloves! Do not substitue brands. |
| Fungus Clorox with work on some cases but it may bleach the hair and effect the skin and hair. |
| Fungus Equal parts Athletes foot salve, Triple Antibiotic Cream, Petrolium Jelly. Mix and apply to affected areas. |
| Fungus Wash with Preptodine(walmart) let set for 20 minutes(wash 6" around area). Then apply Tea Tree Oil to an area 2-3" around. Tea Tree Oil can be cut with Olive oil to make one bottle last longer. |