Crazy remedies ...

[poiuytrewq]

Not horsey sorry but my nana used to put a bit of bread soaked in milk on splinters to draw them out!
She also made me rub steak on my verrucca and bury it in her garden (in a secret place I could tell no-one!)
😂😂 still had said verrucca and splinter I think

 

[Rowreach]

The overuse of turmeric as a cure-all annoys me almost as much as people calling and spelling it "tumeric"

 

[sky1000]

Not horsey sorry but my nana used to put a bit of bread soaked in milk on splinters to draw them out!
She also made me rub steak on my verrucca and bury it in her garden (in a secret place I could tell no-one!)
���� still had said verrucca and splinter I think

The steak on warts - as you say, buried in a secret place and telling no one - worked for me and I had a real crop on my hand!

 

[little_critter]

Used engine oil for feather mites 😩

Well it probably does kill the mites to be fair! Dread to think what else it does though.

 

[Slightlyconfused]

Brewed tea for mucky eyes/conjunctivitis, use in on my horses, dogs and rabbits

Canastan cream, athletes foot powder /cream and nizorol shampoo for ring worm.

 

[Slightlyconfused]

I know someone who uses a paste made of athletes foot powder and calamine lotion for mud fever. Mixes into a thick paste and slaps it on. Strangely, it seems to work!

Well athletes foot powder is an anti fungal so I would see why it works

 

[Goldenstar]

My YM says that if you feed a horse a cube of jelly each day it will do wonders for its hooves.

Gelatin does impove hair and nails ( hooves ) but post the whole CJD thing most jellies are not an animal product .

 

[Goldenstar]

Canastan cream, athletes foot powder /cream and nizorol shampoo for ring worm.

Both of these are anti fungals .

 

[blitznbobs]

Brewed tea for mucky eyes/conjunctivitis, use in on my horses, dogs and rabbits

Canastan cream, athletes foot powder /cream and nizorol shampoo for ring worm.

Those are western medicine treatments for ringworm with excellent evidence base - so hardly crazy. As for vonjunctivitis cooled boiled water is the best supportive treatment for common conjunctivitis so cold tea is pretty similar really .

 

[asterope]

Not horsey sorry but my nana used to put a bit of bread soaked in milk on splinters to draw them out!

I don't think I'd say that's crazy - it works just like any other poultice...

 

[skint1]

Brewed tea for mucky eyes/conjunctivitis, use in on my horses, dogs and rabbits .

Yep, brilliant stuff, I don't know how or why, but it does work!

 

[skint1]

Gelatin does impove hair and nails ( hooves ) but post the whole CJD thing most jellies are not an animal product .

ah, that makes sense, shame though as I think my horse would quite like some jelly

 

[Gift Horse]

One of my grandads - Cobwebs to staunch bleeding, not sure if it's crazy or not I have never had cause to use it!

 

[KittenInTheTree]

Old Scottish Highland cures for epilepsy (in humans) include cutting a live chicken in half and placing it over the head of the patient; drinking the blood of a mole or a snake, preferably in a skull; drinking water out of a skull, preferably one that belonged to the patient's grandfather; treating powdered brains; or burying a chicken in the last place the patient had an epileptic fit.

All perfectly reasonably alternatives to the "burn them at the stake and/or drown them" approach, to be fair!

 

[Goldenstar]

One of my grandads - Cobwebs to staunch bleeding, not sure if it's crazy or not I have never had cause to use it!

This one is almost as old as the hills .

 

[stencilface]

Magnets

Magnets definitely do something. If I put on my magnetic rug before lunging he is nice and free and loose. If I don't, more often than not I have to work him through a mechanical lameness before we do any proper work.

 

[blitznbobs]

Magnets definitely do something. If I put on my magnetic rug before lunging he is nice and free and loose. If I don't, more often than not I have to work him through a mechanical lameness before we do any proper work.

Magnets have been studied extensively in double blind trials in humans and animals . There has never been any difference between them and placebo... I have no problem with placebo but it's not the magnets doing anything.

 

[meleeka]

I do use cold tea for eyes (minus the milk!) and it does work.

Standing feet in cold water for laminitis. It's amazing, despite scientific proof to the contrary, how many times I see this recommended.

Turmeric - an excellent thing for arthritis, but it's not going to cure cancer (sarcoids) I don't think, anymore than toothpaste will.

 

[stencilface]

Magnets have been studied extensively in double blind trials in humans and animals . There has never been any difference between them and placebo... I have no problem with placebo but it's not the magnets doing anything.

Well, I can say it creates warm spots on his back wherever the magnets are, so they certainly do something.

 

[pansymouse]

Standing feet in cold water for laminitis. It's amazing, despite scientific proof to the contrary, how many times I see this recommended.

In the early 70s a vet had us treat our very laminitic pony by standing her in hot water several times a day then making her walk. It was a better treatment than the first vet we had out to her who wanted to shoot her. She survived for many years after so in that sense it worked.

 

[cowgirl16]

My YM says that if you feed a horse a cube of jelly each day it will do wonders for its hooves.

Works for finger nails - so maybe some truth in that?!

 

[taraj]

piles cream for capped hocks.........I did try this as my then 2 yr old had somehow managed to get a swollen hock and I was willing to try anything! It did go down and hasn't returned so not sure if the cream helped/the massaging it in twice a day or it went by itself!

 

[FFAQ]

Battery acid on sarcoids! 😨

 

[Blanche]

About 12 years ago I had a tb yearling who tried her best to cut her leg off. A small time racehorse trainer who lived the next place over told me to get some fertiliser and pack the cut with it, bandage over the top and leave it until the bandage fell off. I must have looked sceptical because he said you should try it, it really works. I didn't needless to say. I would post the gory pics if I remembered how.

 

[hollyandivy123]

spider web would work if you had enough of it. allows a surface for the clotting factors to bind to if the wound is very big

 

[PaddyMonty]

Horse whisperers.

 

[Illusion100]

Milky bars as treats (just like mares milk apparently) for bonding with weanlings.

Covering a swollen and infected knee with honey for a week. It seeps in you see and kills infection. Had to be PTS.

Peppermint tea to cure colic.

 

[pennyturner]

My vet had us treat a systemic skin irritation with potassium iodide in pony's food for 5 months. Tons of it, so it was almost toxic. It gave him dandruff and weepy eyes, but it worked where antibiotics had failed.

Pendulous sarcoid... simply wrap a tail hair tightly around the stem and watch it fall off in a day or so. (This does actually work).

 

[fattylumpkin]

Battery acid on sarcoids! ��

Oh my gosh

 

[claireandnadia]

I guess somethings work for some horses and somethings don't. I personally had good results for Arthritis with my last mare and about to give it a go with my new horses for her itchy problems.
I rave about Camrosa, it's worked wonders for both my horses but know others who don't rate it.