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| What is the best cooling product to use after running? So far I've heard Finishline, Ice Tight, and Mane and Tail Mineral Ice. Just didn't know what everyone thought was the best!! |
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Location: Phoenix | I love Sore No More poultice. Ice Tight never did anything for me--never noticed a difference. |
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Location: Texas | Sore no more is great. I also use finishline cool out I believe it's called. |
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  Damn Yankee
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | I poultice ALOT. The only two I bother using anymore are Finish line (either one) and Sore No More. There are other good ones out there, but they seem to work the best for everything I need. |
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| missroselee - 2014-06-07 8:05 PM
I poultice ALOT. The only two I bother using anymore are Finish line (either one) and Sore No More. There are other good ones out there, but they seem to work the best for everything I need.
So do you just smear the so no more on the legs, let it dry, and rinse the next morning? Since it is a clay (I use the green gel but was interested in the sore no more) I was wondering if it would get all over the horse if you don't wrap it. |
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Location: The South | I love the Sore No More poultice. I also have the gel but I haven't used it yet. The poultice isn't too messy (I never wrap with it) and it can be brushed off in the morning if you can't rinse. Great stuff!! |
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Location: Arkansas | I went to the Finishline website to look at their poultice and got over whelmed with their options. Which is it that is best recommended? Also has anyone used their Iso-tite?
I like to use standing wraps when stalled and am not really sure which works better under them. A poultice or lineament? Opinion? Sorry not trying to steal the thread, I've just now started looking into the poultices. |
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| I have a quick question since we are on the topic of poultice and cooling products. What is the difference between sore no more performance (blue container) and sore no more poultice (yellowish container)? |
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Location: NC | Lyric203 - 2014-06-08 11:13 PM
I have a quick question since we are on the topic of poultice and cooling products. What is the difference between sore no more performance (blue container) and sore no more poultice (yellowish container)?
"Sore No-More Performance Liniment maintains the same arnica based and capsaicin free formula as the original Sore No-More but also removes lobelia to meet FEI regulatory requirements"
Straight from the website. I didn't know the difference either, so that's news to me. LOL |
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Location: Arkansas | Lyric203 - 2014-06-08 10:13 PM
I have a quick question since we are on the topic of poultice and cooling products. What is the difference between sore no more performance (blue container) and sore no more poultice (yellowish container)?
From what I gathered, the blue they call their performance line. It does not have 1 ingredient that the orginal has. Without this ingredient (can't remember what it is) the performance line is approved to be used in FEI events where EVERYTHING on your horse is monitored. |
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A Lady with Fight
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Location: NC | bigspurs - 2014-06-08 8:38 AM
missroselee - 2014-06-07 8:05 PM
I poultice ALOT. The only two I bother using anymore are Finish line (either one) and Sore No More. There are other good ones out there, but they seem to work the best for everything I need.
So do you just smear the so no more on the legs, let it dry, and rinse the next morning? Since it is a clay (I use the green gel but was interested in the sore no more ) I was wondering if it would get all over the horse if you don't wrap it.
It really doesn't. I actually did it for the first time this weekend. I spread Sore No More poultice from the knee down on the front, and from the hocks down on the back. I tied up his tail in a braid, then let it dry a bit before I put his PHT blankets and Soft Rides on him.
I didn't notice it all over him this morning when I hosed him off before I loaded him for another show. |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | alexblagg - 2014-06-08 10:06 PM I went to the Finishline website to look at their poultice and got over whelmed with their options. Which is it that is best recommended? Also has anyone used their Iso-tite? I like to use standing wraps when stalled and am not really sure which works better under them. A poultice or lineament? Opinion? Sorry not trying to steal the thread, I've just now started looking into the poultices.
I have blistered a horse with iso-tite and cotton standing wraps so be carefull. It was a very sensitive horse, the others had been fine with it. Just wanted to give a heads up. |
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Location: NC | alexblagg - 2014-06-08 11:06 PM
I went to the Finishline website to look at their poultice and got over whelmed with their options. Which is it that is best recommended? Also has anyone used their Iso-tite?
I like to use standing wraps when stalled and am not really sure which works better under them. A poultice or lineament? Opinion? Sorry not trying to steal the thread, I've just now started looking into the poultices.
I'm just going to poultice when I haul to a 5 day long show at the end of this month. Mine are not used to being stalled and my gelding has stocked up in the past. But it's just way too hot to wrap. So I'll just slap some poultice on after my run and leave it on until my next one the next morning. No wraps or anything. I imagine he will have shavings stuck to him, but it was pretty easy to hose off for me.
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Location: Bessmer City NC | ive always wondered... do you poultice after every run? or just when you know they are sore? where all do you put it? just legs or what? ive been rubbing some liniment gel by absorbine on my gelding the past few weeks hes getting the crap rode out of him |
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | I put soft rides (now-I just got them-yay!), PHT blanket and 3-n-1 on the one mare, BOT on the other mare, when I go to haul to a show. After they run, they both get Sore no More Gel on their shoulders and backs, Sore No More on their legs (knees and hocks down) and stifles. Once everything is dry, the blankets and what not come back on.
I don't wrap but if you ever watch me put the SNM poultice on any of my horses, you will know it works. They can get fidgety but not when their clay is coming on. I knot their tails but once it is dry it doesn't mess. My horses will scratch themselves and what not but a quick wash and it is all gone.
I don't do this everyday-only for running. I know some people think it is overkill but honestly, my opinion is that while my horses may not be the fastest, one day they may. But they are still trying and I want them to keep trying for a long time. This is maintenance IMO and a peace of mind too, really. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | hlynn - 2014-06-09 12:03 AM alexblagg - 2014-06-08 11:06 PM I went to the Finishline website to look at their poultice and got over whelmed with their options. Which is it that is best recommended? Also has anyone used their Iso-tite? I like to use standing wraps when stalled and am not really sure which works better under them. A poultice or lineament? Opinion? Sorry not trying to steal the thread, I've just now started looking into the poultices. I'm just going to poultice when I haul to a 5 day long show at the end of this month. Mine are not used to being stalled and my gelding has stocked up in the past. But it's just way too hot to wrap. So I'll just slap some poultice on after my run and leave it on until my next one the next morning. No wraps or anything. I imagine he will have shavings stuck to him, but it was pretty easy to hose off for me.
Poultice won't stop your horse from stocking up.
With any poultice I use, I just put it on from knees and and from hocks down, and wrap up their tail until it's somewhat dry. Some horses leave it alone, some try to eat it, mine likes to smear it all over his face. So it all depends on your horse if it's messy or not.
You can put paper towels on it to try to keep it from being so messey, but then you have a bigger mess when you remove it. All personal preference.
I like the Iso-tite. But I will not wrap with it. I never wrap a horses legs with any linament, ever.
The only times I use anything with a standing bandage is plain rubbing alchohol (great for horses that stock up) or if I have reason to do a furacin sweat wrap. I will sometimes wrap with poultice but when I do, I do NOT want the poutlice to dry under the bandages. In that case I soak brown paper bags (the inside of feed bags) in water, apply that after the poultice, then saran wrap or cotton, then the standing bandage. |
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Location: NC | missroselee - 2014-06-09 3:55 PM
hlynn - 2014-06-09 12:03 AM alexblagg - 2014-06-08 11:06 PM I went to the Finishline website to look at their poultice and got over whelmed with their options. Which is it that is best recommended? Also has anyone used their Iso-tite? I like to use standing wraps when stalled and am not really sure which works better under them. A poultice or lineament? Opinion? Sorry not trying to steal the thread, I've just now started looking into the poultices. I'm just going to poultice when I haul to a 5 day long show at the end of this month. Mine are not used to being stalled and my gelding has stocked up in the past. But it's just way too hot to wrap. So I'll just slap some poultice on after my run and leave it on until my next one the next morning. No wraps or anything. I imagine he will have shavings stuck to him, but it was pretty easy to hose off for me.
With any poultice I use, I just put it on from knees and and from hocks down, and wrap up their tail until it's somewhat dry. Some horses leave it alone, some try to eat it, mine likes to smear it all over his face. So it all depends on your horse if it's messy or not.
You can put paper towels on it to try to keep it from being so messey, but then you have a bigger mess when you remove it. All personal preference.
I like the Iso-tite. But I will not wrap with it. I never wrap a horses legs with any linament, ever.
The only times I use anything with a standing bandage is plain rubbing alchohol (great for horses that stock up) or if I have reason to do a furacin sweat wrap. I will sometimes wrap with poultice but when I do, I do NOT want the poutlice to dry under the bandages. In that case I soak brown paper bags (the inside of feed bags) in water, apply that after the poultice, then saran wrap or cotton, then the standing bandage.
Really? I had quite a few people recommend using it when stalling to help with stocking up. That's the whole reason I have it. Lol. Guess I'll find out in a few weeks. I won't be wrapping, that's for sure. Way too hot. I do have a set of those equiflex sleeve things to try too if I need them. Hopefully they won't swell up at all. But that's a long time in a stall for a pasture horse. |
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Location: Arkansas | missroselee - 2014-06-09 2:55 PM
hlynn - 2014-06-09 12:03 AM alexblagg - 2014-06-08 11:06 PM I went to the Finishline website to look at their poultice and got over whelmed with their options. Which is it that is best recommended? Also has anyone used their Iso-tite? I like to use standing wraps when stalled and am not really sure which works better under them. A poultice or lineament? Opinion? Sorry not trying to steal the thread, I've just now started looking into the poultices. I'm just going to poultice when I haul to a 5 day long show at the end of this month. Mine are not used to being stalled and my gelding has stocked up in the past. But it's just way too hot to wrap. So I'll just slap some poultice on after my run and leave it on until my next one the next morning. No wraps or anything. I imagine he will have shavings stuck to him, but it was pretty easy to hose off for me.
With any poultice I use, I just put it on from knees and and from hocks down, and wrap up their tail until it's somewhat dry. Some horses leave it alone, some try to eat it, mine likes to smear it all over his face. So it all depends on your horse if it's messy or not.
You can put paper towels on it to try to keep it from being so messey, but then you have a bigger mess when you remove it. All personal preference.
I like the Iso-tite. But I will not wrap with it. I never wrap a horses legs with any linament, ever.
The only times I use anything with a standing bandage is plain rubbing alchohol (great for horses that stock up) or if I have reason to do a furacin sweat wrap. I will sometimes wrap with poultice but when I do, I do NOT want the poutlice to dry under the bandages. In that case I soak brown paper bags (the inside of feed bags) in water, apply that after the poultice, then saran wrap or cotton, then the standing bandage.
My problem is my horse stocking up BAD. I've noticed the only thing that really keeps it down is standing wraps. Why do you use rubbing alcohol? Does this not seem to burn them also? My horse has white back legs which do seem sensitive. Would you think the sore no more liniment is mild enough? They claim it won't blister a horse. Wasn't sure if that is true or not. I've used absorbine in the past and did accidently blister him. |
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| The best cooling product out there is hydrotherapy with a hose on your horse's legs but when that is not an option I am really liking the Cold Flex wraps and am going to try the 'blanket' out soon. You do not have to have them chilled but I throw them in my cooler so they are colder and they work good. You do have to secure them with either vet wrap or athletic tape I've found. |
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Location: IL | I'm so glad I came on here and saw this thread! I need to order some poultice and was trying to decide what brand I should buy! Thanks! :) |
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Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | If your horse is stocking up, you might consider using a bag of kidney cleanse from Silver Lining Herbs. (When I was riding) I would dose my horse once a year with a bag and it made a big difference in his stocking up.
The Sore No More brushes off really easy. I apply it with rubber gloves, and cold hose in morning. And I keep my horse tied to the trailer as long as possible. My horse will stock up overnight in a stall, but not tied to the trailer overnight. (?!?!) |
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