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Hi,

 

 I have a red/white overo 1/2 Arab mare.  She is the WORST to get scratches.  I have tried all the remedies out there.  She can even get a case started of it within 25 miles.  So, on 100's and multidays I now take a preventative action.  I was a Tractor Supply...you know the one with George Strait, anyway, they had an iodine shampoo.  I bought it, used it, and it cured it.  Nearly overnight.  So, now I use it at ride, at the vet checks to clean all the areas that she has problems.  Like your horse, she gets raw around her elbows.  So, it might be worth it to get some and try it.  You never know.

 

Jody and Rose....scratches free is the way to be !!!

beth glover <bgloverhrsewmn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi riders; Now after Tevis my chestnut/white horse has bad scratches, its gross! It started with some peeling in the elbow areas and a little around the fetlocks, heelbulbs.  After the ride, when trailering home, we used the clay /polo wraps like I always have done for years. Thats a long drive about 8 hours. We took off the back wraps half way, they were annoying her. The clay was still moist. No swelling in the legs, especially the leg that got scraped up and ended our Tevis ride. sigh.    I have been washing her legs good with mild soapy water, and putting some of Trailrites cream ( the pink stuff) and I also mixed zinc oxide and Nystatin that I got at the hospital, thats like anti-fungal or anti-yeast stuff.

What is this scratches anyway, I couldn't find a definitive answer in the many archives. Is it a fungal infection? a parasite? an auto immune disorder? An alkali burn?

It looks like a burn sort of, and the skin specialist at the hospital gave me some Silvadene wafers to try, and I can get the cream . It is $40 per tube. They use it for terrible burn accidents, also for auto immune skin disorders, and bacterial infections. I think it may be a good thing, but wonder if anyone has ever tried it?  Its made from ....Silver.   Right now I am gonna wash her and try one of the little dressings, it has to be wrapped on with vetwrap and stay a couple days. I will post results if it works good. 

I gave her bute last night cause she looked very miserable about it. Hope that wasn't wrong.

So now I understand that at rides I ought to slather her with Desitin on those areas? I still don't like the Desitin with cod liver oil in it, only the kind with Zinc oxide.  Are the horses more prone to scratches after the first time?  Uh...are they gonna give me trouble about putting on zinc at NATRC, cause I have 3 of those rides coming up soon. Haven't gone to NATRC in a year or so. Don't recall anyone using desitin there, though I did sunscreen her pink nose there once with some titanium sun screen, spf 70 and nobody cared.   I never had any any any of these problemos with my other many grey arabians. Get sick of looking at greys, find myself a gorgeous chestnut, and now I must learn about skin problems.  Maybe its just this horse, I've had chestnuts before with no problems.

thanks, Beth  ( we had tons of fun at Tevis anyway!)

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