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| I've got a couple mares with scratches. I've tried That Blue Stuff then Bleach and water. I don't seem to be making any progress. I've been dealing with the first mare for 2 weeks. The second mare I just noticed yesterday. Help please! |
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Location: Up North in Minnesnowta. | I have had great success with this: 4 oz maximum strength desitin, 2 oz neosporin, 2 oz cortisone. Mix and apply. Reapply as needed. I usually reapply once a day. No need to clip hair or pick scabs. Scabs will soften with this. I have a mare that gets scratches on her back legs every fall. She will not let me clip the hair or pick the scabs. This mixture takes care of the scratches in a week or two. Good luck!
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Location: Weatherford, TX | We have always had good luck with Palmolive or Dawn. We give them a bath. Hose them with water, then put the stuff on there, clean and rinse. If you have to do it again, you can because it is pretty mild. |
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Bleach water, scrubbing the scabs off then desitin slathered on top. Takes me a full week for sure though. |
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| We've always used Scarlet Oil. Just spray on and leave it. Just warn others in your barn because it can look like they are bleeding and freak people out. I sprayed it once and freaked my mom out for a minute. lol |
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Location: North Dakota | Scrub with nolvasan or iodine surgical scrub (with a brush to get the scabs off) let dry or towel dry depending on how much time you have and cover with 30% zinc ointment-I believe its the purple tube of desitin-but it should tell you the percentage of zinc on the tube. I have a horse that gets this occassionally when his heaves get a little bad so I'm sure it's immune based. I had all sorts of remedies I tried until I just got really aggressive with the scrubbing (most of the time daily towards the end not as often) and the zinc simply chokes/dries it out and within a week the skin was great and 2 weeks he was almost completely healed. |
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| Years ago I was fighting scratches. One vet told me to use mastitis medication another told me to soak rags in sauerkraut juice. So I tried both, putting the juice on the worst leg. The sauerkraut juice leg healed faster and better. I soaked the "rags" in the juice. applied to the affected leg and wrapped, changing like every other day. I was amazed. |
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Location: Running my kids somewhere. | Rub zinc oxide paste into it and try it break it up. Most will not let you pick it off or clip it.
I will be trying the kraut juice! I can find that everywhere right now. |
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| Ichthammol salve fixes my horses scratches within a week every time! |
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Location: Running my kids somewhere. | sourkiss378 - 2017-09-22 11:55 AM Ichthammol salve fixes my horses scratches within a week every time!
Good to know. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | Of all the horses I've owned I only have one that gets scratches. With him the best thing has been to shave his lower legs when he starts to get hairy. Keeping his legs dry/allowing them to dry quickly seems to be what keeps him from getting scratches to begin with. If I don't get his legs trimmed before the weather turns nasty when I scrub with a betadine scrub and then spray whatever I have on hand on his legs. Last year I had mixed up an antibiotic cream/antifungus cream for thrush and I smeared that on his scabby spots and it seemed to help. |
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| Shapley's Original M-T-G |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | EQ solutions all purpose cleaner.
I use the foamer to spray it on. Remove scabs and then spray it again. Don't rinse off.
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| http://www.nothrushshop.com/index.html |
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| Thank you all. Looks like i have a bunch more options to try. |
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Location: Texas | I mix equal parts triple antibiotic ointment and anti-fingal ointment (both generic, cheap, from Walmart). Moisture is the devil when it comes to scratches, so I do not wash at all. Just apply the ointment mixture.
Something to think about: Does your horse have a "challenged" immune system? When my horse did (he was constantly having allergic reactions, infections, etc), he got scratches all the time (and we are typically pretty dry, but even bathing him became a proble). Once his immune system improved, he never got scratches again.
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| tracies - 2017-09-22 2:42 PM
I mix equal parts triple antibiotic ointment and anti-fingal ointment (both generic, cheap, from Walmart). Moisture is the devil when it comes to scratches, so I do not wash at all. Just apply the ointment mixture.
Something to think about: Does your horse have a "challenged" immune system? When my horse did (he was constantly having allergic reactions, infections, etc), he got scratches all the time (and we are typically pretty dry, but even bathing him became a proble). Once his immune system improved, he never got scratches again.
No immune problems to my knowledge. She is out in a pasture, that is wet from time to time. |
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Location: North Dakota | My Red decided to get what we believe was scratches .... in the middle of January .... in North Dakota .... on only one leg .... starting on the side.
Go figure. Only he would come up with something like that! It got pretty bad in about a month and a half, where it was swelling his leg up and increasing in size. Took him to the vet and she cultured it (but nothing came back substantial) and had mixed me up a combination anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-whatever mixture that was green and smelled awful but it worked like a charm! Cleared it up (we shaved the area and cleaned it really good at the slinic) and when my custom mixture was gone, I continued to do betadine washes every few days and put MTG on it.
So I would say if you've tried over-the-counter stuff and it's not working, go to you vet and do a culture and see if they have something stronger they can give you.
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| r_beau - 2017-09-22 4:00 PM
My Red decided to get what we believe was scratches .... in the middle of January .... in North Dakota .... on only one leg .... starting on the side.
Go figure. Only he would come up with something like that! It got pretty bad in about a month and a half, where it was swelling his leg up and increasing in size. Took him to the vet and she cultured it (but nothing came back substantial) and had mixed me up a combination anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-whatever mixture that was green and smelled awful but it worked like a charm! Cleared it up (we shaved the area and cleaned it really good at the slinic) and when my custom mixture was gone, I continued to do betadine washes every few days and put MTG on it.
So I would say if you've tried over-the-counter stuff and it's not working, go to you vet and do a culture and see if they have something stronger they can give you.
I had gotten some stuff from my vet, expensive salve for scratches, did NOTHING. Over the counter stuff from Walmart took care of it lickity split. |
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Location: London Ontario | My vet gave me a green paste with yellow specks in it - no clue what it was, but it was cheap and healed everything in 72ish hours, I will call and find out. I know they make it at the clinic |
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Born not Made
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Location: North Dakota | Meep.Meep - 2017-09-22 4:04 PM r_beau - 2017-09-22 4:00 PM My Red decided to get what we believe was scratches .... in the middle of January .... in North Dakota .... on only one leg .... starting on the side.
Go figure. Only he would come up with something like that! It got pretty bad in about a month and a half, where it was swelling his leg up and increasing in size. Took him to the vet and she cultured it (but nothing came back substantial) and had mixed me up a combination anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, anti-whatever mixture that was green and smelled awful but it worked like a charm! Cleared it up (we shaved the area and cleaned it really good at the slinic) and when my custom mixture was gone, I continued to do betadine washes every few days and put MTG on it.
So I would say if you've tried over-the-counter stuff and it's not working, go to you vet and do a culture and see if they have something stronger they can give you.
I had gotten some stuff from my vet, expensive salve for scratches, did NOTHING. Over the counter stuff from Walmart took care of it lickity split.
The stuff I got from my vet was not expensive.
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