Horse urine smell

[curiousclover]

I'm wondering what products people use to remove the small or wee and poo off your hands once you've finish at the yard?
I wear gloves (plastic marigold type) to muck out and don't directly touch my horse's wee or poo, and wash my hands at the yard, shower as soon as i get home and wash my hands again. but there is always a slight small to them (nothing that you would notice normally unless you try to smell the smell) but I'm wondering what products everyone is using to get this smell off?
I've using soaps, hand sanitisers, hibiscrubs and scented moisturises after washing my hands but once they wear off, the 'horse' smell hint is still there...

Any tips?

 

[Peglo]

I don’t wear gloves to muck out and occasionally get a direct handle fall in pee. That days I can smell horse pee all day but I don’t mind. Makes me think of my horses every time I get a whiff. ? Most days I can’t smell anything on my hands though. Are you sure the gloves aren’t making it worse?

 

[PurBee]

If youre wearing marigolds and wash your hands, yet still smell a ‘stable’ smell, i’d say its the aroma ’globules’ in your nasal cavity from being in the stable and inhaling micro-dust. Try cleaning your nose/nasal hairs…i use wet-wipes…always amazed how much dust i have lodged in my nostrils after hay and stable handling.

 

[Ceifer]

Swarfega to get the smell off and make sure you moisturise your hands regularly as dry skin holds odour more.
is it straw bedding you’re mucking out? I stink after mucking out straw but not after shavings beds.

 

[windand rain]

Swarfega to get the smell off and make sure you moisturise your hands regularly as dry skin holds odour more.
is it straw bedding you’re mucking out? I stink after mucking out straw but not after shavings beds.

I am the other way round I hate the smell of shavings and wee mixed together and find it lingers longer as to the feint wiff of horse it might be wrists and cuffs so wash well. Baking soda rubbed over your hands might work

 

[smolmaus]

I wear yard gloves, the LeMieux yardmaster ones, and they seem to catch most of the stink. I only get lingering pee smell if my bare hands have got doused in it somehow.

It's only the cat who notices they day-to-day smell, he makes stinky face and won't let me pet him.

it might be wrists and cuffs so wash well.

Or under finger nails and in nail beds!

 

[curiousclover]

Swarfega to get the smell off and make sure you moisturise your hands regularly as dry skin holds odour more.
is it straw bedding you’re mucking out? I stink after mucking out straw but not after shavings beds.

It's a shavings bed, my mare is super messy and really wet. Thank you though, might give Swarfega a go!

 

[curiousclover]

If youre wearing marigolds and wash your hands, yet still smell a ‘stable’ smell, i’d say its the aroma ’globules’ in your nasal cavity from being in the stable and inhaling micro-dust. Try cleaning your nose/nasal hairs…i use wet-wipes…always amazed how much dust i have lodged in my nostrils after hay and stable handling.

My partner smells it on my hands more than me, he's not a big horse fan and the smell puts him off even more so defo not just my nose as he never comes to the stables!

 

[Cortez]

Gosh, you must have the olfactory glands of a Bloodhound to still pick up the smell of pee after all that!

 

[Surbie]

I have a very bad habit of tucking my fringe behind my ears. In summer when there is no hat I often forget and use an unwashed hand. I faintly smell horse pee all day...

 

[Keith_Beef]

Try using ketchup.

Then rinse in clean water then followed by sodium bicarbonate.

If youre wearing marigolds and wash your hands, yet still smell a ‘stable’ smell, i’d say its the aroma ’globules’ in your nasal cavity from being in the stable and inhaling micro-dust.

I tell OH that the smell is no longer on me, but that it's settled in her nose...

 

[Annagain]

Lemon juice.

 

[PurBee]

My partner smells it on my hands more than me, he's not a big horse fan and the smell puts him off even more so defo not just my nose as he never comes to the stables!

Thats amazing…youre wearing gloves and washing heavily!

maybe try the thick black outdoor type marigolds? I use them for drain cleaning etc….theyre a very thick rubber.

 

[BatHorse]

I've never even considered this. Muck out without gloves and just shower/wash hands after with soap. Now I'm paranoid that I smell like horse pee ?

 

[Cortez]

I've never even considered this. Muck out without gloves and just shower/wash hands after with soap. Now I'm paranoid that I smell like horse pee ?

We probably all smell like pee, but I really don't care.

 

[Leandy]

Ordinary soap and water. Never noticed a problem but maybe my nose is not very sensitive!

 

[Gloi]

If I smell my hands and they still smell of horse pee/poo it just reminds me of him and makes me happy. I don't care what anyone else thinks.
<3 my horsey <3

 

[Melandmary]

My partner used to moan my hands smelled "horsey" even after washing them granted i muck out using gloves. I now wear latex gloves under my regular gloves and that seems to have solves the problem.. They also keep my hands warmer, which is nice in winter but a little sweaty in summer ?

 

[Lady Jane]

I do wash them with soap but I think the remaining horsey smell is quite nice. Its not like the smell on clothes the next day

 

[Zuzan]

My fail safe get rid of any smells .. is fat / oil and salt .. I use cheepo olive oil or coconut oil .. rub hands in fat / oil add salt .. rub some more then wash off with ordinary soap and water.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Feed your horse lots of fenugreek shoots.

 

[curiousclover]

I've never even considered this. Muck out without gloves and just shower/wash hands after with soap. Now I'm paranoid that I smell like horse pee ?

I wouldn't really notice if it wasn't for my OH being not horsey!

 

[curiousclover]

My partner used to moan my hands smelled "horsey" even after washing them granted i muck out using gloves. I now wear latex gloves under my regular gloves and that seems to have solves the problem.. They also keep my hands warmer, which is nice in winter but a little sweaty in summer ?

I might try this! an extra layer might help!

 

[windand rain]

Are you sure its the horse and not the gloves making your hands smell he might have a mild latex allergy that is associated with rubber gloves and boots being near horses. I have which is why I am certain rubber mats stink unless fully bedded to 6 inches although people say they don't. I also find the urine small lingers more if the are on mats and shaving far worse with mats and straw although on a brick floor straw smells less

 

[PurBee]

Hey curiousclover…i was thinking….when you say you muck out wearing marigolds…do you mean you use a showel and tools to muck out the bedding while wearing marigolds or you literally use your gloved hands to muck out?
(I dont want to assume, as some people glove up and grab a bucket using their hands to muck out…i never have but have read others that do)

If you do, i’d switch to using a big shovel and rake as ive never ever smelt pee on my hands, and i deep bed my horses sharing a barn, so there’s often soaked bedding underneath, and i use the tools bare-handed most days, except freezing weather, never have a lingering smell issue.

Literally handling the pee soaked shavings in marigolds, perhaps the rubber isnt strong enough against uric acid/ammonia from pee, as most cheap wellies arent either, and it possibly seeps through the marigolds in micro amounts.
I buy wellies that are ammonia/grease/fuel resistant rubber.