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We're having no luck lately. Daughter was schooling at home this morning, no spurs just a whip. Horse was an angel. When she dismounted the heel of her jodhpur boots had taken off a big patch of skin behind the girth.

Obviously a very sensitive horse but must be the different boots as we've had him 10 years and this is new. Any ideas how to clear this up quickly and to harden off his skin so it doesn't happen again?
 
Sudocrem on the wound, and my instructor once told me to put something like bleach on once it had healed to make the skin toughen up. We never did it, so I don't know if it would work. Does she wear chaps? They often rub horses with sensitive skin.
 
Sounds daft but was it definitely her boot that did it? Is there a chance he scraped himself in the field or box and you've tacked him up without realising (especially if it was on the right-hand side). What about the boot? Has it got any sharp edges or defective bits?

Something that I know to toughen up human skin is just plain salt water, daubed on the skin a few times a day but I have no idea if that will work for horses.
 
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Certainly dont use bleach!
Maybe you mean surgical spirit on unbroken skin.

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They did say after the skin had healed!. But I would never put bleach on a horse for anything like that. Neither would I put surgical spirit on. They used to say Witch hazel to harden the skin but not on the wound.
 
Camrosa is excellent for horses with sensitive skin. It treats the problem when there is a sore and sorts out the skin so it is less likely to happen again.
 
I have used Surgical Spirit on unbroken skin, it is the 'old' remedy for girth galls etc. Not heard that Witch Hazel toughens skin, but a much kinder option - which I will check out.
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When I worked on a yard (years ago) we were told to apply salty water to the horses' skin in the areas that needed hardening up. Mostly for the riding school horses who's saddles & girths rubbed
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Needless to say, I didn't stay there longer than a month but still.... it might be something that works?
 
Sounds daft but has your school surface or any surface changed recently - just thinking if she had lots of "grit" or something on her boots that trapped between her and the horse - knew someone which something similar happened to, sudocream for the wounds and I think she might have changed her boots in the end!
 
Sudocream is brill or the cheapy tescos nappy rash thing, thought this worked better. To clean it out its best to clean it with salty water.
 
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