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Recipes/homemade hoof dressings
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11/ 5/2003 - 4:23 pm
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Name: StormieSubject: Recipes/homemade hoof dressings
Email: brheikki@hotmail.com
I have a recipe website for horse products and treats and I need a little 'farrier input'. My farrier moved before I got a chance to ask him about any recipes.
I have gotten a few recipes for hoof products but not many and I'm not sure about them. One that I'm questioning has: 1 cup Salt, 1 cup Castor Oil, and 1/2 cup Wheat Germ Oil. I don't understand why they have salt in it. Wouldn't that dry out the hoof? It makes no sense to me but I thought maybe there was a reason that I just wasn't seeing. Any ideas on why they have salt in it?
Also if anyone has any recipes for anything horse related(no recipes on how to cook horses LOL) please post them or email me. I try to scan the recipes and take out ones that I don't think are safe but any Farrier input would be good. Until I replace my old farrier I don't really have anyone to run these hoof related recipes past anymore.
Here is the link to the website as it is right now. I'm trying to update it again but it takes awhile to get everything set up.
http://www.geocities.com/stormieqh/index.html
Email: brheikki@hotmail.com
I have a recipe website for horse products and treats and I need a little 'farrier input'. My farrier moved before I got a chance to ask him about any recipes.
I have gotten a few recipes for hoof products but not many and I'm not sure about them. One that I'm questioning has: 1 cup Salt, 1 cup Castor Oil, and 1/2 cup Wheat Germ Oil. I don't understand why they have salt in it. Wouldn't that dry out the hoof? It makes no sense to me but I thought maybe there was a reason that I just wasn't seeing. Any ideas on why they have salt in it?
Also if anyone has any recipes for anything horse related(no recipes on how to cook horses LOL) please post them or email me. I try to scan the recipes and take out ones that I don't think are safe but any Farrier input would be good. Until I replace my old farrier I don't really have anyone to run these hoof related recipes past anymore.
Here is the link to the website as it is right now. I'm trying to update it again but it takes awhile to get everything set up.
http://www.geocities.com/stormieqh/index.html
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11/ 5/2003 - 4:23 pm
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Name: Joe
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I'ts hard to answer with out knowing what this mixture is supposed to be doing. Where is it applied, how frequently is it applied, what is it supposed to treat, and how fast is it supposed to start working?
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I'ts hard to answer with out knowing what this mixture is supposed to be doing. Where is it applied, how frequently is it applied, what is it supposed to treat, and how fast is it supposed to start working?
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11/ 5/2003 - 4:23 pm
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Name: Tom Stovall, CJF
Email: stovall@wt.net
Without comment on the efficacy of, or advisability of using, any hoof dressing, equal parts of pine tar and cooking oil can be used. The misture is relatively cheap, suitably messy, and adequately smelly and it seems to satisfy folks' need to slather stuff all over horses' feet - especially just before the farrier arrives.
Tom Stovall, CJF
Farrier & Blacksmith
stovall@wt.net
http://www.katyforge.com
Email: stovall@wt.net
Without comment on the efficacy of, or advisability of using, any hoof dressing, equal parts of pine tar and cooking oil can be used. The misture is relatively cheap, suitably messy, and adequately smelly and it seems to satisfy folks' need to slather stuff all over horses' feet - especially just before the farrier arrives.
Tom Stovall, CJF
Farrier & Blacksmith
stovall@wt.net
http://www.katyforge.com
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Name: Stormie
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The thing is that most of these recipes don't have all of that information. I should have put a side note on the above post that I really don't agree with the use of everything I have on that website. There is a side note on the first page and the new website will have more detailed warnings on some of the recipes(mainly the fly spray ones). If I don't have these recipes people ask for them. And if I refuse to put them on they are going to get them from someone else. Atleast if I have them on my own website I can add some common sense warnings.
What I need is just some general recipes. Horse owners are never happy about things like hooves. They always want to add things to them(I just don't get that idea?) So I always get asked for things like, what to put on dry hooves, what helps hooves grow out. I'm not a vet or a farrier and I tell people that right up front. That's why I'm asking on here. I know my old farrier had a long list of recipes of stuff he had. One was a cure for scratches. It was pink and gross and smelled so back the horse looked at his leg funny but it worked great. I never got the recipe before he moved. I always get recipes from people that get them from their farrier. But i also know that they mix things up so I figured I would come to the source and find out for sure.
The recipe in question is on my website. It came from another website or a magazine. The info I have on my website is all the info I was given on it. I had thrown that website up over a weekend after I got tired of emailing the 20some page list to people. I'm trying to back track and look through the recipes and double check.
It's odd really, I'm not the type of person that looks for homemade ways of doing things. I normally just go buy something. But I have the website and I want to give the people that use it the best information I can.
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The thing is that most of these recipes don't have all of that information. I should have put a side note on the above post that I really don't agree with the use of everything I have on that website. There is a side note on the first page and the new website will have more detailed warnings on some of the recipes(mainly the fly spray ones). If I don't have these recipes people ask for them. And if I refuse to put them on they are going to get them from someone else. Atleast if I have them on my own website I can add some common sense warnings.
What I need is just some general recipes. Horse owners are never happy about things like hooves. They always want to add things to them(I just don't get that idea?) So I always get asked for things like, what to put on dry hooves, what helps hooves grow out. I'm not a vet or a farrier and I tell people that right up front. That's why I'm asking on here. I know my old farrier had a long list of recipes of stuff he had. One was a cure for scratches. It was pink and gross and smelled so back the horse looked at his leg funny but it worked great. I never got the recipe before he moved. I always get recipes from people that get them from their farrier. But i also know that they mix things up so I figured I would come to the source and find out for sure.
The recipe in question is on my website. It came from another website or a magazine. The info I have on my website is all the info I was given on it. I had thrown that website up over a weekend after I got tired of emailing the 20some page list to people. I'm trying to back track and look through the recipes and double check.
It's odd really, I'm not the type of person that looks for homemade ways of doing things. I normally just go buy something. But I have the website and I want to give the people that use it the best information I can.
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Name: Gary
Email: FtfrkGary@aol.com
If anything ,Jergens Lotion is full of lanolin and thats about all any foot might need whether its too dry or too soft ,just massage it into the coronary band and presto no mess and it's cheap! Might get it at the dollar store or Wally World! Only thing I've seen that works! Good Luck! Gary
Email: FtfrkGary@aol.com
If anything ,Jergens Lotion is full of lanolin and thats about all any foot might need whether its too dry or too soft ,just massage it into the coronary band and presto no mess and it's cheap! Might get it at the dollar store or Wally World! Only thing I've seen that works! Good Luck! Gary
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