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| Does anyone have experience with scratches? What remedies have you used? Help! |
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Location: Smack in the middle of WA! | I had a gelding get scratches so bad and tried everything. What worked the best for me was shaving the long hair off his legs and treating daily with Healing Tree "Tea Cleanz" I just mixed it a little stronger than the directions said in a spray bottle and sprayed his legs daily. Was way more convenient than diaper rash ointment or wrapping with poultice. It's the only thing I will recommend for scratches! It works amazingly well  |
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| Seems like almost every year at least one will get it. I use chlorhexadine shampoo. I buy it from my feed store but in some areas you may have to get it from your vet. Per my vets instructions spray down legs and apply shampoo Do Not Rinse leave on 24 hours and rinse and repeat. Does not burm your horses skin as some remedies do. Within a week everything will be not gone but a huge difference, within a about two weeks everything will be cleared. I keep chlorhexadine shampoo on hand at all times |
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Location: Texas | I have found the absolute best stuff is Keratex Mud Shield Powder. Love this stuff. If it is an absolute, super stubborn case that the Mud Shield Powder just ain't working, then I have some stuff that I got from my vet called that they call "fungus meds". They mix it up at the clinic. That gets it for sure. And the Mud Shield Powder works great for keeping it away too. |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Only dealt with it one time, had a colt in for a friend who came with scratches. I could get it under control with Vetericyn but at soon as it looked like it had cleared up and put boots on him it would blow back up. Finally got some of the Vet Formula of it and it did the trick. |
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| 4 oz Ultra stregth Desitin (in the purple tube)
2 oz Cortizone (I use generic)
2 oz Neosporin (generic also)
Mix this together and apply to the scratches. Wipe off daily with a dry towel and reapply. It is a miracle cure for scratches. |
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| I had one that had gotten it real bad. I tried a ton of things. The only thing that worked was baby shampoo for cradle cap towel dry then athletes foot cream not spray. Wrap loose with vet wrap and repeat daily. Took about a week and it was gone and never came back!! |
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Location: On a paint horse... | Bought a mare this fall that had it. First ever experience and its HORRIBLE!! I posted here and tried EVERYTHING and the only thing that worked was CleanTrax. I talked to the president of the company and he gave me all the scoop, once you open a bottle it is only good for 60 minutes, you have to use the whole bottle. Take a toothbrush and rub each place in a circular motion until it is weeping. Mix the cleantrax as directed, add to a soaking boot and soak leg for 45-60 minutes, as soon as you are done, put a plastic bag over the leg and leave that on for another 60 minutes. If it is up too high for a soaking boot, wrap in a ton of guaze, then add the liquid using a turkey baster. Take the used solution and put it in a squirt bottle and spray the stall mats, lift each mat and spray around edges, also in trailer. My mare had it on 2 legs and he recommended we soak all 4. He said it could take 2 soaks, (a week or so in between allowing the stuff to shrivel up) but it actually took us 4 to get rid of it. NASTY stuff!! |
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| Vetricyn VF works great. It has to be the VF formula and you get it from your vet. |
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What About Me?
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| Shave the hair, Ezall, dulited bleach, medicated shampoo.... |
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| Thanks guys...this stuff is a pain in the butt!
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Doggy Diaper Designer
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Location: WI | I fought it for probably 6 months I kid you not. I tried everything. Best results came with diluted bleach water. It got super cold then and I was so fed up at that point, I just stopped everything and it went away
Edited by stef73433 2014-03-09 9:38 PM
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Doggy Diaper Designer
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Location: WI | BTW. It's very contagious also. Wash hands don't share brushes |
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| I worked for someone who must have had it in her ground because we always were treating it on the paints. We tried everything, desitin, scarlett oil, bleach, diluted bleach, whatever that blue aerosol can is, tinactin, tea tree oil, every version of people and anti-anything animal shampoos on the market, sunlight, no sunlight, antibiotics, steroids, anything else the vet could think of... The only thing that keep it manageable was sauerkraut. It was that, then a pillow wrap, then cling wrap, then standing wrap. Changed daily and let me tell you, it was awful in the summer. I don't know why or how it works but it did for that.
I've wondered if we'd have had better lucky with the products on the market now, especially Vetricyn and Symbiont, but 15 years ago, those weren't around. |
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Location: Southeastern Idaho | Banix works great but you will go through a ton of it. I also have had good luck with No Thrush powder. |
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 Mrs. Perks Alive
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Location: Madill Ok | Easiest way I have found over the years is getting some "captan" powder from a farm & garden center, soak feet in a bucket of this for 15-20 minutes. dry it and then apply desitin cream. Two treatments usually work, it dries up and scabs will fall off. You can treat it more if you want. Its also inexpensive. |
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 Forever Young at Heart
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Location: Way down yonder in the indian nation~Oklahoma | Bickmore gall salve... wash the area really good, dry completely with a towel, rubbing it like a person who is shining shoes, briskly, to get all the dead cell build up off... then slather it with the gall salve. Damp, wet, or dewy ground will aggravate it and makes it worse, so the dryer the better till you get it under control. |
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