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Go onto Facebook and look up the Turmeric User Group. Turmeric is a side effect free (apart from some thinning of the blood, so not recommended if you are on another blood thinning medication) anti-inflammatory and pain killer that has been shown to be as effective as Bute in some tests (dunno...

I would add turmeric together with black pepper and olive oil to her feed - look on facebook Turmeric User Group for quantity and how to feed.

I have had success with small sarcoids (complete disappearance, and hair regrowth after an occult sarcoid) by using acyclovir cream (zovirax) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21493530

Wainwrights looks pretty good: http://www.whichdogfood.co.uk/dog-food-reviews/0619/wainwrights-adult-complete - gets 2 more stars than the Royal Canin! http://www.whichdogfood.co.uk/dog-food-reviews/0060/royal-canin-medium-adult

If you look on whichdogfood.co.uk it will give you all the ingredients for different makes of dog food, together with an "expert rating" of number of stars out of 5. The site is done by a man who has worked in all areas of the dog food industry, and who thinks that some of the manufacturers are...

I've got porky horses too - and I use small holed nets as well. Don't worry about her not eating enough, if she's hungry she'll persist with the small holes, and she'll eat the hay slowly. I had one (Arab) who literally ate a hole in the small holed haynet - there was a pile of quidded nylon...

equine science Pulmon-EZ works for my boy.

I downloaded a hypnotherapy mp3 from The Confident Rider - I only listened to it 3 times but it worked for me! I bought another one for dressage competitions as well, which stopped me being sick..... they aren't very expensive so might be worth a try?

I use miscanthus pellets rather than wood pellets - you don't need to soak them, and they are lighter (so you get more per kg) and more absorbent than wood pellets. Wouldn't go back to wood pellets now.

I'm only saying what I did, and how it worked. I actually think that in my limited experience the acyclovir cream is the best thing on shallow sarcoids - and it is what I would use in future. Here's a link to a review of evidence-based equine sarcoid treatments...

That's great, hayinamanger! I'm pleased with the results, too.

Update on my toothpaste v sarcoid thread..... Here are the latest photos: I applied toothpaste until it came off/was rubbed off. It only seemed to stick to the sarcoid, and when it came off it revealed fresh pink skin underneath. I reapplied the toothpaste once the skin had turned black...

Catch with a lunge line and lungeing cavesson, and take a lunge whip. Any baulking, lunge for 5 minutes, then ask to walk in normally. Worked with my stroppy TB mare in the distant past, although she had a full lungeing session once before she worked out that she wasn't going to get away with it!

My 4 are all ridden and all barefoot, although the TB wears front hoof boots when he's hacked out on the roads - we have some stoney lanes round us, and he has typically flat TB feet. They all have a horslyx (I know, it contains sugar, but they like them, it keeps them occupied and they...

Our 4 were only out during the day and were brought into their boxes at night, but we extended our hard standing and put in a new gate and fencing to the field, then our 4 were confined to the hard standing (which includes access to the field shelter and water trough). We fed hay in small holed...