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| Can we talk about our favorite poultices? I love numotizine and just regular Ice Tight. I feel like for some reason people are using these newer therapies and shying away from poultice. Am I just old school? Maybe there is a time and place for poultice but I love using it. Any hock sores, cuts, or scales heal up and I cool those legs off which seems like a great thing to me but I hardly ever see anyone poulticing after a run. Are we embarrassed to whip out the mud or is it just too much trouble for some folks? |
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Location: Midwest | I use poultice. Sore No More is my absolute favorite. I think I have even gotten my friends doing it a bit too. lol
It is a PITA though because it sticks all over your hands. I have the BOT stuff, but I prefer using plain poultice AFTER a run. |
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| Numetizing (however it's spelled, that nasty smelling pink goo), Kwik Relief, and some stuff I make myself (= |
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | I don't ever go anywhere without numotozine. One of my all time favorite medicines. The stuff is amazing.
For injuries, I am also stocking THE Nutra wound.
My one mare had surgery in november. As a precaution, we cold hose after every ride and when she is ran, after a cold hose she gets 20 minutes of ice and then she is wrapped in a PHT wrap.
However, everyone else gets Sore No More gel on shoulders and backs and Sore No More Poultice (mud) on legs, hocks and stifles. My horses literally fall asleep when that is going on them. You can watch them relax when it is coming on. They just love it! Totally worth the money.
Edited by sassy&tessa 2014-06-03 8:27 AM
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Location: Phoenix | I like SNM poultice. It's the only one that I've seen REALLY work. Kept my geldings legs tight after being stalled for 10 days when normally he balloons up after 1. TIP: I buy latex gloves at Rite Aid or CVS and keep them in the trailer. Keeps your hands clean!!
Edited by hammer_time 2014-06-03 9:32 AM
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I poultice after I run, but I can't seem to remember to put a roll of plastic wrap in the trailer, so it's usually done when I get home. IMO for poultice to work without wrapping, you need to clip their leg hair really short and I hate to do that on pastured horses. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | hammer_time - 2014-06-03 9:31 AM
I like SNM poultice. It's the only one that I've seen REALLY work. Kept my geldings legs tight after being stalled for 10 days when normally he balloons up after 1. TIP: I buy latex gloves at Rite Aid or CVS and keep them in the trailer. Keeps your hands clean!!
Haha! I use latex gloves and still get mud all over me... |
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Location: Northern Ontario | Just curious. why do you hate clipping legs on pastured horses? |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | SuperTrooper - 2014-06-03 3:32 PM Just curious. why do you hate clipping legs on pastured horses?
I worry about their skin getting irritated with no protection from flies and weeds. |
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Location: Texas | I alternate between runners relief and a clay poultice as my go to for pulling swelling out of legs and joints.
On areas I can wrap, I would do poultice, brown paper wetted down, then a now bow and a standing wrap. On areas I can't wrap I just slather it on and braid their tail and hope it stays on long enough.
For runner's relief, I take runners relief mixed with nitrofurazone, then my no bow, then saran wrap over the no bow and a standing wrap. I've also just put runners relief on without wrapping. |
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Location: Northern Ontario | Three 4 Luck - 2014-06-03 4:38 PM
SuperTrooper - 2014-06-03 3:32 PM Just curious. why do you hate clipping legs on pastured horses?
I worry about their skin getting irritated with no protection from flies and weeds.
makes sense! I clipped mine last week because her legs were full of lice and she was too hard to keep clean with the crazy mud we have. I guess I'll have to put fly boots on her. I don't like having her legs clipped but her hair was too thick and the lice were having a party in there |
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Meanest Teacher!!!
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Location: sunny california | I love playing with poultice so squishy and slimey |
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 Not Afraid to Work
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| Not to steal the thread but what do you recommend at a show where you run 2-3 times over the entire day??? You may run at 9am and 6pm. I unboot and typically cold hose but is it still benefical to poultice at the end of the day? If i am not running the following day? Im just trying to learn all the rules, my knowledge with poultice is limited. |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | stayceem - 2014-06-03 10:40 PM Not to steal the thread but what do you recommend at a show where you run 2-3 times over the entire day??? You may run at 9am and 6pm. I unboot and typically cold hose but is it still benefical to poultice at the end of the day? If i am not running the following day? Im just trying to learn all the rules, my knowledge with poultice is limited.
Absolutely, the harder they work, the more it helps to do thier legs up. I like to leave them done up for at least twelve hours, 24 is better.
If it is really late and you have one kid cranky and tired and the other puking, making it a bit hard to tend to your horse, lol, it will still help to do your ponys legs up in the morning. |
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| What's the easiest way to keep it wet the longest? Someone said something about a roll of clear wrap? Can someone explain that? I've tried the wet paper bag but jeez I had a heck of a time with that lol |
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| I use sore no more before a run and ice wraps after a run. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | RoadToVegas - 2014-06-04 12:29 AM What's the easiest way to keep it wet the longest? Someone said something about a roll of clear wrap? Can someone explain that? I've tried the wet paper bag but jeez I had a heck of a time with that lol
I prefer plastic wrap to seal the moisture in. If you're using medicated poultice, the leg will still be cool when you remove the plastic, unlike when you use plastic to sweat them. Some people use cotton under the plastic, I don't. Saran Wrap works better than some of the other brands because it's stiffer and won't twist and wad up on you before you can get it on their leg. |
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| Where can I purchase a 5 lb bucket of Sore no more? I have looked at lots of websites and they are either on backorder or charge at least $15 in shipping!? |
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Location: Oregon | Because I sell out of the Sore No More poultice so dang fast I brought in three different types of poultice from Finish Line last week as a backup and fill in. Just curious if anyone has used the Finish Line muds and what your thoughts are. Would love some feedback. |
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| Katie's - 2014-07-11 11:00 AM
Because I sell out of the Sore No More poultice so dang fast I brought in three different types of poultice from Finish Line last week as a backup and fill in. Just curious if anyone has used the Finish Line muds and what your thoughts are. Would love some feedback.
I just used the Finish line Willow mud, I don't have the name exact for the first time this week. I had one who had lots of fluid in her knee and lower leg from a small cut (she is a princess) it worked really well. I can't wrap her because she takes them off within 5 minutes but still did well. It also washed off easy and felt nice going on. I usually have SNM but was out. |
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Location: Oregon | cutnrunqhmt - 2014-07-11 9:19 AM Katie's - 2014-07-11 11:00 AM Because I sell out of the Sore No More poultice so dang fast I brought in three different types of poultice from Finish Line last week as a backup and fill in. Just curious if anyone has used the Finish Line muds and what your thoughts are. Would love some feedback. I just used the Finish line Willow mud, I don't have the name exact for the first time this week. I had one who had lots of fluid in her knee and lower leg from a small cut (she is a princess ) it worked really well. I can't wrap her because she takes them off within 5 minutes but still did well. It also washed off easy and felt nice going on. I usually have SNM but was out.
That's good to know, thank you! The EZ Willow has arnica in it which is also in the Sore No More so I thought this would be the closest mud to that. |
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| Would like suggestions. I have a mare that has a swelled up ankle. Would a poultice help take the swelling down. I have been hosing and wrapping while she eats with ice. Not sure what she down or how she did it. She is out in the pasture with my other two. I am pretty sure she has just twisted it or sprained it. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I like Finish Line products. I couldn't find the 5 pound bucket of sore no more either, so I ordered the gigantic bucket. Should be lasting me a while.  |
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| AfleetEquine - 2014-06-03 9:15 AM Numetizing (however it's spelled, that nasty smelling pink goo), Kwik Relief, and some stuff I make myself (=
That Kwik Relief is awesome stuff!! I used it years ago on a strained suspensory....it took out the swelling completely in less than 20 minutes. I didn't know they still made it anymore. Where do you get it from? |
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Location: MS | Kwick Relief works great. It's alot less expensive than anything else.
I spray the leg with the liquid Kwick Relief then put the mud on and use the spray to keep it wet.
I've used it on my knee.
It can be hard to get off. It will come right off with EQ wash. |
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