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Recently purchased an arc in the hope it’ll aid my horse with a Suspensory avulsion.
Anyways he is a Welsh D with feathers, I wouldn’t say they were overly thick where the arc would sit but there is definitely hair there. This morning I tried it for the first time and I couldn’t get the bloody thing to conduct,I had a fair amount of gel on it too, gave up as had work to be getting to.
has anyone used an arc on a feathered horse? Did you end up clipping the leg or part of the leg where the arc would sit? I slightly loathe taking his feathers off completely as the injury looks like he may have to turn a hoof to showing in the future as his eventing career is looking bleak…
I was thinking of going over the area the arc sits with trimmers and a guard, will that be enough hair off for the arc to conduct?
 
A friend had to clip her horses leg as she had the same issue. She tried with loads of the conductive gel but it just wouldn't work with the amount of feather hers had. 😐
Horsegirl25 said:
Recently purchased an arc in the hope it’ll aid my horse with a Suspensory avulsion.
Anyways he is a Welsh D with feathers, I wouldn’t say they were overly thick where the arc would sit but there is definitely hair there. This morning I tried it for the first time and I couldn’t get the bloody thing to conduct,I had a fair amount of gel on it too, gave up as had work to be getting to.
has anyone used an arc on a feathered horse? Did you end up clipping the leg or part of the leg where the arc would sit? I slightly loathe taking his feathers off completely as the injury looks like he may have to turn a hoof to showing in the future as his eventing career is looking bleak…
I was thinking of going over the area the arc sits with trimmers and a guard, will that be enough hair off for the arc to conduct?
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I have used mine on my Welsh D's legs in august without an issue but i would think that the feather/fur at this time of year is too thick. You might have to try a couple of different grade comes to get down to a thickness that will allow the conductivity to work. You shouldn't need to clip the actual feather off the fetlock though, the pads sit on the side of the leg/just behind the cannon bone or on it so the feather up the back of the leg can be left intact. I also used a bandage (not tight) over the top of the arc so it stayed in place.
 
I had one years ago. If I remember rightly the instructions say that you don’t need to place it on the injury or even on the same leg, something to do with the circulation boosting effect, have you tried it higher up on a less hairy bit? Check this though as I might be misremembering.
 
lialls said:
I have used mine on my Welsh D's legs in august without an issue but i would think that the feather/fur at this time of year is too thick. You might have to try a couple of different grade comes to get down to a thickness that will allow the conductivity to work. You shouldn't need to clip the actual feather off the fetlock though, the pads sit on the side of the leg/just behind the cannon bone or on it so the feather up the back of the leg can be left intact. I also used a bandage (not tight) over the top of the arc so it stayed in place.
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Thank you! I was planning on doing just a strip on the outside of his leg (s) hopefully that won’t look too bad lol. Like you say hopefully come summer when the hair is not tho thick I won’t have to clip a strip!
 
I have two Welsh D’s one is hairier than the other but can get a connection on both, use plenty of gel and I find if I do it up then put pressure on the disc bit and wriggle the the green lights appear, i then hold in place with a bandage over the top.
 
Abacus said:
I had one years ago. If I remember rightly the instructions say that you don’t need to place it on the injury or even on the same leg, something to do with the circulation boosting effect, have you tried it higher up on a less hairy bit? Check this though as I might be misremembering.
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I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be on the injured leg at all. I used one during recovering from a double break in my foot and used it on the other leg. There's a manual online.
 
sbloom said:
I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to be on the injured leg at all. I used one during recovering from a double break in my foot and used it on the other leg. There's a manual online.
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That's correct, don't use it on the leg or arm that is injured but alternate it between the uninjured limbs.
 
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