I am a bad person - girth galls

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My new Amerigo arrived last Friday and I've been using my old leather Stubben girth - had for ages and no problem.

Last night I was untacking and my poor poor beast had a bleeding girth gall (sp). Obviously not going to use that girth with this saddle again. But anybody got any ideas why this would happen now? - Its only on one side.

She does have slightly sensitive skin and if I use spurs that aren't the rubbery bally ones they mark her too.

I've put sudocrem on them but is there anything that can toughen the skin (just behind her elbow) up?

Thank you!
 
Wait until it has healed and put surgical spirit on the area
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Could be the girth sits in a different position.
 
definatly dont ride till its healed fully,could there have been some mud or something that has rubbed,once healed surgical spirit to harden the skin up
 
I don't ***Think*** there was any mud or dirt or something.

Don't you just love their ablity to constantly go wrong in some way or other! But it does explain why her leg yeild and half pass to the right were so good last night - she was 'escaping' the wound!
 
Are you sure the new saddle isn't moving?
If you need to ride use a real sheepskin girth cover not a synthetic one and for a while after it heals too.
We always used surgical spirit but perhaps there is a better modern alternative now?
 
I did suspect the new saddle to be slipping back a tad. As I live in Guernsey the saddler posted it to me and he's coming on Monday to see it. I've just left a message to give me a ring so I can order a new girth as well and have a chat (this is getting stupidly expensive!).

It sounds awful but I do really need to keep riding her - shes just had a while off whilst waiting for this saddle to arrive and she goes loopey if left with out work for too long. I dod wonder about sheep skin - Thank you for that, and once all healed with put surgical spirit on it - don't think there is a better alternative as yet.
 
Gold Label do a skin hardener gel, may help to prevent it happening again once it has fully healed, only other suggestion is nice soft girth sleave...depending on if your horse sweets alot, may also make it worse though.
 
Why don't you do ground work with her? Long line or lunge. Anything you can do in the saddle you can do on long lines with the horse at varying distances from you. Other than that, wait till it heals then surgical spirit, touchens the skin but if there is still the source of the rub you can still get bald patches. They just don't blister as easilly
 
You can get the Amerigo girth with the sheepskin lining that velcro's on and off, my sister has one and loves it, though they cost an arm and a leg!

Hopefully the saddler will be able to identify why this has happened, hope she's not too sore, poor girly
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Oh dont feel bad the exact same thing hapened with my new saddle, I got back from a hack and she had a bald patch, I cannot begin to tell you how bad i felt!! It healed very quicky I got a new girth and have never looked back, thankfully no futher problems. Good luck in sorting yours...
 
Thank you - Did feel very bad.

The Amerigo girth sounds like a very good idea - practically having to get a mortgage just for the saddle, so I spose may as well add more to it for a girth as well
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