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| Rebound Hoof Pack ingredients - Epsom salts, iodine, arnica and pine tar
magic cushion:
Active Ingredients: Turpentine 26.6%, Iodine 0.06%
Inactive Ingredients: Natural Leather Fiber, Rosin
Opinions on both would be great!
My horse is a bit foot sore and just want to make her feel 100%. I am contemplating also making my own with a combination of ingredients in both rebound and magic cushion.
Last night I tried sugar, draw, and iodine.
I was thinking of mixing epsom salts, iodine, pine tar, and turpentine and doing the duct tape method.
If you try to harden the hoof with turpentine will that take away from the ani inflammatory effects of the Epsom salts?
Thank you in advance!
Edited by angelaF 2015-06-16 9:19 AM
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Location: Kansas | angelaF - 2015-06-16 9:06 AM Rebound Hoof Pack ingredients - Epsom salts, iodine, arnica and pine tar magic cushion: Active Ingredients: Turpentine 26.6%, Iodine 0.06% Inactive Ingredients: Natural Leather Fiber, Rosin Opinions on both would be great! My horse is a bit foot sore and just want to make her feel 100%. I am contemplating also making my own with a combination of ingredients in both rebound and magic cushion. Thank you in advance!
Magic Cushion is magical. It's pricey and sticky but is seriously great. Chance lost the Equipack pads from both his front feet while running on hard ground Friday night, so I packed his feet with Magic Cushion on Saturday before warming up, and he won the rodeo plus felt great coming out of the pen where a lot of times he has been a little ouchy leaving the pen.
I need to restock my Magic Cushion because it's great to have in the trailer for anytime feet are sore. |
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| Do you have shoes on your horse? Did you wrap the Magic Cushion to keep it in the hoof? |
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| Magic cushion all the way.
If you read up on it, it can actually go under a pad under a shoe.
I use breast pads to keep it in the foot then vet wrap the foot |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | I laughed when my vet suggested Magic cushion. The name just makes it sound like snake oil. But it's truly awesome stuff. It made my foot sore thin soled heavy horse feel so much better when we were transitioning him to his barefoot retirement. He was so sore after pulling the shoes he didn't know which foot to limp on more. I packed his feet and put his soft rides on for a few days. That's all it took. |
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| cheryl makofka - 2015-06-16 9:42 AM
Magic cushion all the way.
If you read up on it, it can actually go under a pad under a shoe.
I use breast pads to keep it in the foot then vet wrap the foot
breast pads for humans? |
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| Has anyone found a boot that you can put on and leave on for a few days to avoid wrapping? |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | angelaF - 2015-06-16 9:58 AM
Has anyone found a boot that you can put on and leave on for a few days to avoid wrapping?
Yes...I used his Soft Rides. Worked great. |
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Location: Kansas | angelaF - 2015-06-16 9:32 AM Do you have shoes on your horse? Did you wrap the Magic Cushion to keep it in the hoof?
He does have shoes. We normally keep his fronts padded with Eqiupack CS pour-in pads but they fall out sometimes and I will use Magic Cushion to keep him feeling great until I can get pads replaced. I do wrap the feet with vet wrap and then cover them with duck tape to keep the vet wrap from tearing so quickly. |
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| TrailGirl - 2015-06-16 10:40 AM
angelaF - 2015-06-16 9:58 AM
Has anyone found a boot that you can put on and leave on for a few days to avoid wrapping?
Yes...I used his Soft Rides. Worked great.
Can you leave those on when you turn them out? |
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Location: Kansas | angelaF - 2015-06-16 11:27 AM
TrailGirl - 2015-06-16 10:40 AM
angelaF - 2015-06-16 9:58 AM
Has anyone found a boot that you can put on and leave on for a few days to avoid wrapping?
Yes...I used his Soft Rides. Worked great.
Can you leave those on when you turn them out?
I certainly wouldn't unless you are keeping the horse in a pretty small pen. My gray would destroy Soft Rides in 10 minutes if I turned him out in any decent sized pen since he runs & plays constantly. A less active horse might be OK with Soft Rides on but mine are all wild hooligans who practice their NFR bucking moves when they aren't pretending to be fish in the pond! |
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This was on my old guy who just ambles around even when his feet were NOT hurting...so yes...we did turn him out with them on. Now...a more active horse would need to be in a smaller pen for that to be workable I think.
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Location: 31 lengths farms | The Old Mac's work a lot better for a horse that is in turn out though anything that goes up over the coronet band will eventually rub some. We bought a pair for my dad's old mare years ago, she was al little long, due to be shod in a few days and he went to gather cows with my brother down in Antelope Canyon. Sheared off 3 of her 4 shoes and I mean it tore them off down to the nubbings, too short for farrier to even want to put a shoe on her. Dad bought her the Old Mac's and I packed her feet with the Numotizine, wrapped that up with vet wrap and duct tape just to really make sure the numotizine stayed in place and put the boots on. Before that she hurt even standing on grass. By the end of the first day with the boots and the numotizine she was trotting around the pasture. I believe the Soft Rides and the Old Mac's are about the same price and you can ride in the Old Macs too, dont' have all the fancy inserts that come with them but if you need something that you can turn them out in they are a great solution. |
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Location: mi | With my older horse I put in a golf ball sized or smaller amount of magic cushion, then I cover the bottom of the foot with a piece of feed bag cut to the size of his foot. Wrap with vet wrap the duct tape the heck out of it and I can get about 48 hours with that wrap on turn out. He doesn't run around like crazy but he is a pawer when he sees me coming to feed and we can still make it 2 days if the ground is not like rock if it is then he gets redone each night. I have only used the Magic cushion it is good stuff.
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