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Thanks everyone, you're underscoring what I've started to suspect.   
Based on what I've done so far, I think my gelding does much better  
with COLD than with wrapping.

I have never been taught to "wrap", per se, so I don't dare go there.   
For the last year or more, after our 50-milers I've done  
cold-water-soaked Boomers' Bandages over clay poultice with no saran  
wrap between... and it has worked fairly well.  I started doing it  
after a suggestion from a Ridecamper.

But, I was getting tired of how dirty the wraps got, and that they  
didn't stay on too well.  So this last time I wrapped with poultice  
and saran wrap under the same Boomers' Bandages, but without the  
cold-water soak, and when the wraps came off all his legs were warm  
and filled!

Soooo, I'm thinking it was the coolness more than the poultice that  
was doing the trick.  I'm thinking about getting some Extend-a-Cool or  
ColdFlex wraps but right now I can't afford either so I'll just bring  
some extra extra buckets and buy more ice.  :-)

Thanks y'all!
-Sharon L. in Maine



Quoting Marirose Six <6mules@xxxxxxxxx>:

> I agree with you, Sheila, wrapping properly makes a BIG difference. I will
> wrap with a cly poultice after a 100 or maybe a FAST 50. BUT, I know how to
> wrap a leg evenly ( no  pressure points) with good, even, tension, but not
> too tight. I'm a believer in, if you're unsure if you can wrap properly,
> then don't wrap.
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:37 AM, <Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I wrap my horses legs after an endurance or very very hard training ride
> > with a clay poultice.  However, I do know how wrap legs very well, it
> > drives me crazy to see bad leg wrapping.  I figure my horses work hard for
> > me and I want to prevent filling.  Some people say "I want to see if they
> > have filling."  I however want to prevent filling.  I have not had heat
> > buildup using a clay poultice although once I used a green jelly and the
> > legs were warm when I unwrapped, no filling though.  At that point I just
> > decided to use the clay.  Probably a personal choice.
> > Thanks,
> > Sheila
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> >
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