Pig oil and sulphur and feather questions

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jennifer83

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I really want to start using it (I think lol)
So does anyone on here use it? How do u put it on, How much ect.. Is it any good? Where do i buy it from?

I love my boys feathers i don't really want to cut them off this winter. Also they are not as full as i thought they would be, is there anything i can do to help them grow a bit more?

Many thanks
 
thi is a copy of a pm I sent to Kub. Buy it from ebay, £25 for 5 litres delivered.

I'll try my best to explain how I use it now (after much faffing) on my boy. At the moment I apply it once a month, in the winter once a week, to mane, tail and feathers.

Right, once you get the 5 litre bottle, you need to give it a good shake, then decant it using a funnel into 500ml-ish sqeezy bottles. I use water bottles with sports cap (now saved for this) or peeps use a washing up liquid bottle. One full application uses 500ml for me, I do the legs first (about 100ml per leg, 50/50 ml for main and tail.)

For the mane, I apply right along the crest line and massage it in (wearing rubber gloves), and then brush it down into the mane itself. Don't worry about the yellow sulphur, and my boy's mane is black and white, and it's fab for it. His mane has now grown 8 inches in 8 months - reaching for the floor, lol.

For the tail, I massage it into the tail bone, then brush some down into the tail. Btw, nothing can survive in this stuff, and midges get stuck to it which is yuck, but it gets rid of lice !

For the feathers, I work from the knee down, and the aim is to get as much onto the actual leg as you can, esp around the back of the knee and under the pasterns. You'll see that the oil will stop the inner skin getting dirty, even if the outer feather does. Then apply to the front too. Shy has grown masses of feather both front and back, and he stopped itching and didn't get mud fever. It also cleared up the scabs on the back of his knees.

I hope that helps you. I've had coloureds a while, and nothing ever worked for stuff like this - I always had the vet out for skin probs. Shy may sometimes look like an oil slick, but when I bath him, he comes up daz white


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hi
thanks for the quick reply. I bought my cob last year, his feathers had been cut they where at the short and spiky stage (if you know what i mean). Also he had/has a short forelock and long mane which I'm trying to grow out. The forelock is taking forever maybe it will never come back :( The more hair the better. Everyone at my yard has tidy tb's . lol. We love being odd.
 
the pics in my sig were taken 8 month apart...his mane has grown a good eight inches so far, and still going strong. his feathers and tail have grown masses too ! :D get the oil right into the forelock base area btw.
 
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I was toying with the idea of having to pull about 1" off his forelock so it doesn't catch in his headcollar or feed, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Certainly not after going to a dales pony show last week - they had massive manes, and I swooned :D
 
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