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Fw: [RC] Cold Mountain Lameness Remedy - Dot Wiggins

wonder if this works like the old cowboy remedy I heard about years ago to help toughen the soles of tenderfooted horses?
 
Put your heavy cast iron frying pan on the hot stove, add enough bacon grease to about an inch or more deep.  When it is very hot set it on the ground and set horse's foot in it.  Horse will (?) stand till the heat works into the sensitive inner sole.  When this happens, it's done.  Start over on the other feet.
The idea was to deaden the nerves close to the surface of the sole.
Never tried it, don't know if it works, but guess it might.
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: goearth
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 12:51 PM
Subject: [RC] Cold Mountain Lameness Remedy

Howard, i mentioned that i was going to read Cold Mountain and i did and enjoyed it a lot.    In it there is the strangest recipe for lameness i ever heard that some Gypsies did.."A woman snubbed a big bay up to a birch trunk and then twitched it and poured lamp oil on the frog of its hoof and lit fire to it to curb a tendency to lameness."  Thats a new one to me and i just wonder what AERC or the Vets would think of that? tom sites