Okay. Can someone clarify for me... the when and why and how of sweats, braces, liniments, poultices? To bandage over or not to bandage over (and how to make them work the best)? And what is in them...homemade, storebought, moonshine?
Thanks!
Leg braces, liniments, sweats, poultices etc.
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Leg braces, liniments, sweats, poultices etc.
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Wow. This is a very big topic.
I'll start off with a really simple one... I have a lot of OTTB gals who retired due to one injury or another... and every now and then one will hobble up to the gate, holding up their formerly injured leg, and will have got a recurrence of an XYZ, suspensory, etc. They get a trip to the barn, a cozy stall up to their knees in straw and all the trimmings, and they get WRAPPED. Sometimes just alcohol over the legs, and then thick cottons and support wraps (NOTE I never wrap one leg alone, always in pairs). I use standard standing wraps and secure them with painter's masking tape.
The mare will stay in, wraps off in the morning and on again in the afternoon, for 4+ days until she is pasture sound again.
Unfortunately, I have one gray gal that has figured out the game and will hobble up holding a foreleg if you are watching. Not a bit sore. If she gets ignored, after awhile she will canter off to join the bunch. Miss Hypochondria.. she must prefer the barn to the broodmare band
I'll start off with a really simple one... I have a lot of OTTB gals who retired due to one injury or another... and every now and then one will hobble up to the gate, holding up their formerly injured leg, and will have got a recurrence of an XYZ, suspensory, etc. They get a trip to the barn, a cozy stall up to their knees in straw and all the trimmings, and they get WRAPPED. Sometimes just alcohol over the legs, and then thick cottons and support wraps (NOTE I never wrap one leg alone, always in pairs). I use standard standing wraps and secure them with painter's masking tape.
The mare will stay in, wraps off in the morning and on again in the afternoon, for 4+ days until she is pasture sound again.
Unfortunately, I have one gray gal that has figured out the game and will hobble up holding a foreleg if you are watching. Not a bit sore. If she gets ignored, after awhile she will canter off to join the bunch. Miss Hypochondria.. she must prefer the barn to the broodmare band
So Run for the Roses, as fast as you can.....
