How to prevent white hair growth (well, try to!)

[NotAnotherChestnut]

I know this is a bit uncontrollable in terms of it depends whether the hair follicles have been traumatised or not, but....

My mare has had an altercation with a fixed wooden bar and has ended up with a huge scrape down the middle of her face where all the hair has come off and it is grazed (though it was never deep enough to bleed - just weep and look sore).

Aside from a bit of a bump, she's fine but she's chestnut and I really don't want white hair to grow back though! As above, I know there's prob fairly little I can do about this fact, but I was wondering if anyone had any tips they use that may help in any way?

Never know, may just have knocked some sense into the bumpy-headed one!

 

[JRT]

I've always had good results with either Camrosa or Cornucrescine.

 

[stencilface]

There was a lady on radio two that swore by rubbing marmite on the area to prevent white hair growth. I have never tried it though!

 

[Pearlsasinger]

My welshxtb mare cut her leg just to the side and above the knee on a broken metal gate while at livery (!!). Fortunately she had only cut the flesh although we could look through the hole at underlying strucutres. The vet decided not to stitch, gave us anti-bs for her and told us to flush the wound twice a day. We moved her to a field with no access to running water so we used to take a bucket which had contained garlic (purely by chance) and still smelled strongly with warm water in it and an irrigation syringe. We flushed the wound for 3 weeks so that the wound healed from the inside. She was bay roan with black stockings and the wound was just into the black hair. After the wound had healed there was a scar without hair for a while but after the hair grew back you had to know where to look to find the site and after a few years there was no sign at all. We always put a small pinch of garlic into wound washing water now.

 

[DressageDevil]

Aloe Vera gel with a couple of drops of lavender oil.

Both cause excellerated cell renewal

 

[Molineux]

Hiya,

I have tried everything with my boy, he had really bad mud fever on both front legs and he is almost black, however his hair still grew back white down the front of his legs

and I had tried everything poss!!

 

[Thunderbirds R Gone]

I've always found Dermagel works really well

 

[niagaraduval]

My mum always said rub bacon grease (form the grill) and ashes on it, and it will grow back black, she said it really does work as her pony slipped and cut his knees and she did this and the hair started to grow back black instead!

I think it's something in the pigment which makes black more likely to come through

 

[LeneHorse]

buy a grey!

 

[Steeleydan]

Soot and Lard, works every time. Wait till the scab comes of and its just healthy skin pink or black skin and start rubbing the mixyure on twice a day. I know this sounds like a joke but it works.

 

[merlinsquest]

I second dermagel